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

This is when the afterwhile has become the present, and the day to come is just now.

From The Secret of the Creation by Pollyen, Howard D.

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

One evening I overheard Uncle Kit say to Mr. Hughes, "That boy is going to make a dead shot afterwhile."

From Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains An Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the Far West by Drannan, William F.

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

From Afterwhiles by Riley, James Whitcomb