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
How we'll greet the dear old smile, And the warm tears— afterwhile!
From Afterwhiles by James Whitcomb Riley
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 Ralph Parlette
At first he was grateful for the light; afterwhile, however, he detected an uproar distinguishable from the wind; it had no rest or lulls, and in its rise became more and more a human tone.
From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Lewis Wallace
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 James Mudge
