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

Pave with love each golden mile, 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

The Prodigal Son came to himself afterwhile and thought upon his ways.

From The University of Hard Knocks by Parlette, Ralph

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