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

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

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

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

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

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

There were six of these men, omitting the watchman; and afterwhile they assembled in a group near the fire, some sitting, some lying prone.

From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis