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The trash you and others of your ilk gets annoying afterwhile.
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I found afterwhile I couldn't look at the photos, I had to move on.
Archive 2008-04-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2008
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I found afterwhile I couldn't look at the photos, I had to move on.
A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2008
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Way afterwhile she run away and come to our house and stayed 'bout three days.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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This is when the afterwhile has become the present, and the day to come is just now.
The Secret of the Creation Howard D. Pollyen
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The kopeck that you win by guile may swell your roll today, but in the clammy afterwhile it melts that roll away.
Rippling Rhymes Walt Mason
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He planned for more of it, seeing otherwise a dull evening ahead; and reverted, afterwhile, to a forbidden subject.
Alice Adams 1921
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I want you to; and I want you to ask several other girls afterwhile; I'll tell you who. ''
Alice Adams 1921
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When I come to my September in the golden afterwhile.
A Heap O' Livin' 1920
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"You don't think there's any --" William began, and, after a pause, continued -- "any hope -- of his getting strong enough to come out and dance afterwhile?"
Seventeen 1915
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