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

At first he was grateful for the light; afterwhile, however, he detected an uproar distinguishable from the wind; it had no rest or lulls, and in its rise became more and more a human tone.

From The Prince of India — Volume 02 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

He planned for more of it, seeing otherwise a dull evening ahead; and reverted, afterwhile, to a forbidden subject.

From Alice Adams by Tarkington, Booth

Change men's grief to a gracious smile, And thus have heaven here this minute And not far-off in the afterwhile.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James