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

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

Well, afterwhile they stopped the fuss, An' some one kindly parted us.

From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean

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

It may be you can guess who, afterwhile.

From A Child-World by Riley, James Whitcomb