whiles,

This the landlady of the Break of Day chirpingly explained, calling between whiles,

Little Dorrit 2007

Expressing himself with great scorn and anguish, the gentleman takes up his candle and stalks off to bed, where feigning to be fast asleep when the lady comes up – stairs drowned in tears, murmuring lamentations over her hard fate and indistinct intentions of consulting her brothers, he undergoes the secret torture of hearing her exclaim between whiles,

Sketches by Boz 2007

The keen wearers of helms, for the last while of whiles,

The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous

Up the steep Ridge-way, hearkening betwixt whiles,

The Alarm 1898

1317: Take you your instrument, play you the whiles,

The Taming of the Shrew (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

Mum’s my best friend, the only one ... though, whiles,

Krindlesyke Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 1920

"I have been thinking a good deal about you, to-day, between whiles,

Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War Harry Collingwood 1886