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
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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
Better opportunity will not offer to get sight of the populace who will afterwhile go forward in a mood very different from that which now possesses them.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis
And we must buy 'plate matter' instead of 'patent insides'; and I had a talk with the Associated Press people in Rouen—but that's for afterwhile.
From The Gentleman from Indiana by Tarkington, Booth
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