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

And afterwhile we are all in the barrel of life, shaken and bumped about.

From The University of Hard Knocks by Parlette, Ralph

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

Then, afterwhile, when they get some free time on their hands, they'll come over and make it really interesting for us, because they know we won't do anything but talk.

From Ramsey Milholland by Tarkington, Booth

And by that philosophy the slavery to which we are going must afterwhile become sweet.

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