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AWHILE
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
For a short time
Example:
the baby was quiet for a while
Synonyms:
awhile; for a while
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Context examples:
I renewed the fuel, re-arranged the bedclothes, gazed awhile on her who could not now gaze on me, and then I moved away to the window.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Like that immortal hero, she reposed awhile after the first attempt, which resulted in a tumble and the least lovely of the giant's treasures, if I remember rightly.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Rest awhile, and you shall come to the hall anon and tell us what is passing in France, for I have heard that it is likely that our pennons may flutter to the south of the great Spanish mountains ere another year be passed.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Harker was silent for awhile and then said in a hollow voice:—"Let us talk of that part of it in the morning. I want to consult with Mina."
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The lawyer stood awhile when Mr. Hyde had left him, the picture of disquietude.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Your hunter’s decided to stay aboard awhile and doesn’t want it pounding alongside.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I am glad mine is not there, and I hope it may not go there, yet awhile.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was the hardest battle I had fought, and the first victory I had gained: I stood awhile on the rug, where Mr. Brocklehurst had stood, and I enjoyed my conqueror's solitude.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
At last, however, she fell right into the wind's eye, was taken dead aback, and stood there awhile helpless, with her sails shivering.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
When I offered to slacken my pace, he would cry hhuun hhuun: I guessed his meaning, and gave him to understand, as well as I could, that I was weary, and not able to walk faster; upon which he would stand awhile to let me rest.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
