As usual with me, the words followed the impulse to speak them.

"Nobody can turn back time," he tells me, each word followed by a pause.

Now, what do you think are the publicists' words immediately following this?

Yet it was a full eight seconds before words followed.

No word of comment followed; each reader made his own fearful one.

They are only different depending on what word or sound is following.

No word she spoke or heard, but would follow, if he took up her hand.

"Why do the words 'follow the money' come to mind?"

Your words of wisdom, encouragement and advice will follow us all through our lives.

Rather, the literal words of the statute have to be relied on and followed.