afterwhile

Example Sentences

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To Edgar Guest, death was "God's great slumber grove" or "the golden afterwhile."

From Time Magazine Archive

"You don't think there's any—" William began, and, after a pause, continued—"any hope—of his getting strong enough to come out and dance afterwhile?"

From Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William by Tarkington, Booth

There were six of these men, omitting the watchman; and afterwhile they assembled in a group near the fire, some sitting, some lying prone.

From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis

And then afterwhile thy father gave thee over to me to be educated.

From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Wallace, Lewis

The kopeck that you win by guile may swell your roll today, but in the clammy afterwhile it melts that roll away.

From Rippling Rhymes by Mason, Walt