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Later on   /lˈeɪtər ɑn/   Listen
Later on

adverb
1.
Happening at a time subsequent to a reference time.  Synonyms: after, afterward, afterwards, later, subsequently.  "He's going to the store but he'll be back here later" , "It didn't happen until afterward" , "Two hours after that"






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"Later on" Quotes from Famous Books



... fuse," objected Jack. "If we just drop it overboard the stuff may cause damage later on. I don't ...
— Boy Scouts in Southern Waters • G. Harvey Ralphson

... the knife, to which they reverted later on, kept the lecturer and audience going till late in the evening, by which time our sailor had completely won the hearts of the Eskimos, and they had all become again so hungry that Okiok gave a hint to his wife to stir up the lamp and prepare supper. Then, ...
— Red Rooney - The Last of the Crew • R.M. Ballantyne

... although the old worship has passed away, it is almost impossible for us to open a book that does not contain some mention of the gods of long ago. In our childhood we are given copies of Kingsley's Heroes and of Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales. Later on, we find in Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, Keats, Shelley, Longfellow, Tennyson, Mrs. Browning, and a host of other writers, constant allusion to the stories of the gods. Scarcely a poet has ever written but makes mention of them in one ...
— A Book of Myths • Jean Lang

... wonderful sight!" exclaimed Bud, as the two boys stood a little later on the river bank, staring, with fascinated eyes, across the water. "Looks more like a dream-city, or a scene in fairyland, than it does like a real ...
— The Cave of Gold - A Tale of California in '49 • Everett McNeil

... are those who know and judge by rules; and the third are those who know, but are above the rules. These last are those you should wish to satisfy. Next to them rate the natural judges; but ever despise those opinions that are formed by the rules.'—Mine. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 180. Later on she writes: —'The natural feelings of untaught hearers ought never to be slighted; and Dr. Johnson has told me the same a thousand times;' ib. ...
— Life of Johnson, Volume 6 (of 6) • James Boswell


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