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

From The University of Hard Knocks by Parlette, Ralph

The latter afterwhile came to have a gallery in which the public was sometimes treated to games and combats between lions, tigers, and elephants.

From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Wallace, Lewis

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

From The University of Hard Knocks by Parlette, Ralph

At first he was grateful for the light; afterwhile, however, he detected an uproar distinguishable from the wind; it had no rest or lulls, and in its rise became more and more a human tone.

From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Wallace, Lewis