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

Afterwhile, afterwhile, God’s goin’ to change our station, afterwhile.

From Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes by Odum, Howard W.

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

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

From The University of Hard Knocks by Parlette, Ralph