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
How we'll greet the dear old smile, And the warm tears— afterwhile!
From Afterwhiles by Riley, James Whitcomb
And by that philosophy the slavery to which we are going must afterwhile become sweet.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis
Change men's grief to a gracious smile, 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
But afterwhile the same child will hold a quart.
From The University of Hard Knocks by Parlette, Ralph