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afterwhile

adv. (context US dialect English) afterwards

Usage examples of "afterwhile".

Then afterwhile you can come back and the old man cannot do anything because she will be your woman.

I stood there singing to them, and afterwhile they turned around and went back into the sunset, head first like arrows flying.

Then we went roaring on again, and afterwhile we came to a still bigger town--a very big town.

We went very slowly nearly all day, I think, and afterwhile we came to where there were many, many houses close together, and more fire-boats than could be counted.

I could not think of anything else, and afterwhile this made me really sick, but I thought I would have to stay with the show until I could get money enough to go home.

I gotta get this kitchen clean, the madam will be coming in here afterwhile to cut sandwiches.

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.