The play was not kept up long after this and refreshments were brought in.
— from Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We know that Jews still lingered in the cities of the Khabour until long after the Arab invasion; and we may perhaps recognise in the Jewish communities of Ras-al-Ain, at the sources of the river, and of Karkisia, or Carchemish, at its confluence with the Euphrates, visited and described by Benjamin of Tudela, in the latter end of the twelfth century of the Christian æra, the descendants of the captive Israelites.
— from Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard

Phil did not know until long afterward that at home the army of Taylor had been given up as lost.
— from The Quest of the Four: A Story of the Comanches and Buena Vista by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler