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

"Yes, but you'll think afterwhile that I got you mixed up with my meal-ticket."

From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Hurst, Fannie

Way afterwhile she run away and come to our house and stayed 'bout three days.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration

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

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

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