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

Then, afterwhile, when they get some free time on their hands, they'll come over and make it really interesting for us, because they know we won't do anything but talk.

From Ramsey Milholland by Tarkington, Booth

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

"Yes, but you'll think afterwhile that I got you mixed up with my meal-ticket."

From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Hurst, Fannie

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

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