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

And we must buy 'plate matter' instead of 'patent insides'; and I had a talk with the Associated Press people in Rouen—but that's for afterwhile.

From The Gentleman from Indiana by Tarkington, Booth

This is when the afterwhile has become the present, and the day to come is just now.

From The Secret of the Creation by Pollyen, Howard D.

"You don't think there's any—" William began, and, after a pause, continued—"any hope—of his getting strong enough to come out and dance afterwhile?"

From Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William by Tarkington, Booth

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