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

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

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

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

The Prodigal Son came to himself afterwhile and thought upon his ways.

From The University of Hard Knocks by Parlette, Ralph

Well, afterwhile they stopped the fuss, An' some one kindly parted us.

From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean