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

He planned for more of it, seeing otherwise a dull evening ahead; and reverted, afterwhile, to a forbidden subject.

From Alice Adams by Tarkington, Booth

Change men's grief to a gracious smile, And thus have heaven here this minute And not far-off in the afterwhile.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

You are planning and saving and telling yourself that afterwhile you are going to give great things and do great things.

From The University of Hard Knocks by Parlette, Ralph

A rake, borne afield upon the shoulder of a peasant, afterwhile fascinated the Venetian Beppi, and drew him away to study its strange and wonderful uses.

From Venetian Life by Howells, William Dean