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

How we'll greet the dear old smile, And the warm tears— afterwhile!

From Afterwhiles by Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Afterwhile, afterwhile, God’s goin’ to change our station, afterwhile.

From Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes by Odum, Howard W.

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

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