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

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

But afterwhile the same child will hold a quart.

From The University of Hard Knocks by Parlette, Ralph

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

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