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
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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
The latter afterwhile came to have a gallery in which the public was sometimes treated to games and combats between lions, tigers, and elephants.
From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Wallace, Lewis
It may be you can guess who, afterwhile.
From A Child-World by Riley, James Whitcomb