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Be after   /bi ˈæftər/   Listen
Be after

verb
1.
Have the will and intention to carry out some action.  Synonym: plan.  "The rebels had planned turmoil and confusion"






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"Be after" Quotes from Famous Books



... any better than before. He found refuge and consolation with Mark. The boy was merry in a mild, reflected way, because the rest were merry, but preferred his own room with "dear Majie," to the drawing-room with the grand lady. He would steal from it, assured that in a moment the major would be after him, to keep him company, and ...
— Weighed and Wanting • George MacDonald

... at the Serpent. Give him everything you've got! Do you understand? Fire! He thinks that the ape-people have hurt him, and he will be after them in a second. If we have any luck, he will do to them what we never could have done, and maybe destroy himself at the same time! Me, I'm going down there and get ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 • Various

... order, and good government of Her Majesty's subjects and others therein; provided that all such orders in council, and all laws and ordinances so to be made as aforesaid, shall be laid before both houses of Parliament as soon as conveniently may be after the making ...
— Handbook to the new Gold-fields • R. M. Ballantyne

... image of Christ, the Word of God, who creates all things; all music upon earth, I say, is beautiful in as far as it is a pattern and type of the everlasting music which is in heaven; which was before all worlds, and shall be after them; for by its rules all worlds were made, and will be made for ever, even the everlasting melody of the wise and loving will of God, and the everlasting harmony of the Father toward the Son, and ...
— The Good News of God • Charles Kingsley

... there should be after what I've seen. But bah! you Northern young chaps lay siege to a girl at such long range that she surrenders to some other fellow before you ...
— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe


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