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

This is when the afterwhile has become the present, and the day to come is just now.

From The Secret of the Creation by Pollyen, Howard D.

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

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

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