Posthumous

At one time or another (including copyrights) this person has had about fourteen hundred pounds of my money, and he writes what he calls a posthumous work about me, and a scrubby letter accusing me of treating him ill, when I never did any such thing. ❋ Thomas Moore (1815)

This is why we call the posthumous life the only reality, and the terrestrial one, including the personality itself, only imaginary. ❋ Annie Wood Besant (1890)

He brings this question as a plaintiff in the case he describes as a posthumous "love letter to the things Gerry believed in." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Today's excerpts from Henry David Thoreau's Journal are in posthumous dialogue with The New York Times. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But will the millions of children who adored Irwin’s life-affirming presence stick with him in posthumous reruns? ❋ Unknown (2006)

(Unless the author is dead and the book is posthumous, which is a slightly different kettle of fish.) ❋ Msagara (2009)

My father was what is generally termed a posthumous child — in other words, the gentillatre who begot him never had the satisfaction of invoking the blessing of the Father of All upon his head; having departed this life some months before the birth of his youngest son. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Chopin did display remarkable originality at the very beginning, but the apparent maturity of his first published works is due to the fact that he destroyed his earliest efforts and disowned those works which are known as posthumous, and which may have created confusion in some minds by having received a higher "opus" number than his last works. ❋ Henry Theophilus Finck (1890)

He is dying by inches now, dying of the most horrible persecution; and the emotion that his end will cause among a few individuals cannot be called posthumous fame. ❋ Bj��rnstjerne Bj��rnson (1871)

My father was what is generally termed a posthumous child -- in other words, the gentillatre who begot him never had the satisfaction of invoking the blessing of the Father of All upon his head; having departed this life some months before the birth of his youngest son. ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)

My father was what is generally termed a posthumous child -- in other words, the _gentillatre_ who begot him never had the satisfaction of invoking the blessing of the Father of All upon his head, having departed this life some months before the birth of his youngest son. ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)

My father was what is generally termed a posthumous child -- in other words, the gentillatre who begot him never had the satisfaction of invoking the blessing of the Father of All upon his head, having departed this life some months before the birth of his youngest son. ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)

(Even the idea of posthumous fame is merely the thought of a prize given while we are sleeping, and have left our muttering to others.) ❋ Adam Gopnik (2010)

Others have achieved the kind of posthumous fame and fortune rarely accomplished by the living: Famed American poet Emily Dickinson asked that her poetry be burned when she died, but instead more than 1,800 of her poems have been published since her death in 1886. ❋ Oana Balajel (2010)

The Court reviews the laws of several jurisdictions, including the District of Columbia and New York, which allow "posthumous" children to share in such a future estate, but do not specifically address the issue of post-conception. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I'll live in hope, then, that I'll achieve some kind of posthumous fame and/or a pre-posthumous windfall from whichever lucky archive winds up with my effects. ❋ Flavia (2008)

MORTEN [GAMST] [PEDERSEN] SHOULD BE GIVEN A [POSTHUMOUS] RED CARD ❋ Online Dictionary (2010)

Many [valiant] [soldiers] were awarded the [Medal of Honor] posthumously. ❋ BigBrotherM (2006)

[Van Gough's] [fame] was [posthumous] ❋ Vegihumor333 (2003)

“[Did you] [smell] his [posthumous work]?” ❋ Derderr (2007)