Peppajee held up a slim, brown hand for silence, and afterward rested it upon the saddle-fork.

And when they rested afterward, the light in the bedroom all but gone, he thought he'd successfully diverted her from discussing domestic matters tonight.

We lay on those divans a long time, after supper, smoking narghilies and long-stemmed chibouks, and talking about the dreadful ride of the day, and I knew then what I had sometimes known before -- that it is worth while to get tired out, because one so enjoys resting afterward.

In Mark Kram's classic account, Frazier rested afterward in a villa in downtown Manila.

She wished she was better at doing nothing, and resting afterward.

While MacArthur was resting and recuperating afterward, Desjoyeaux - who is nicknamed The Professor for his tactical prowess - slipped into the Northeast Tradewinds and back into first place, a position he would hold the rest of the way.

We slept a heavy, good, cognac sleep, and woke several hours later simultaneously and in the same position, and the mountain did show us everything, and we climbed it together and afterward rested on it.

He rested afterward, smoking, then started up again.

They all rested afterward, getting ready for a long evening.