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

Well, afterwhile they stopped the fuss, An' some one kindly parted us.

From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean

Give your dollar now, rather than your thousands afterwhile.

From The University of Hard Knocks by Parlette, Ralph

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

From Afterwhiles by Riley, James Whitcomb

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