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

A rake, borne afield upon the shoulder of a peasant, afterwhile fascinated the Venetian Beppi, and drew him away to study its strange and wonderful uses.

From Venetian Life by Howells, William Dean

Way afterwhile she run away and come to our house and stayed 'bout three days.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration

And afterwhile we are all in the barrel of life, shaken and bumped about.

From The University of Hard Knocks by Parlette, Ralph

But there will be skating afterwhile; and snowstorms to go walking in.

From Otherwise Phyllis by Gibson, Charles Dana