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

It may be you can guess who, afterwhile.

From A Child-World by Riley, James Whitcomb

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.

The kopeck that you win by guile may swell your roll today, but in the clammy afterwhile it melts that roll away.

From Rippling Rhymes by Mason, Walt

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