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

But afterwhile the same child will hold a quart.

From The University of Hard Knocks by Parlette, Ralph

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

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

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

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