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Meanwhile

adverb

At the same time but in another place.

During the intervening time. Synonyms: in the meantime, meantime. "Meantime he was attentive to his other interests" , "In the meantime the police were notified"

noun

The time between one event, process, or period and another. Synonyms: interim, lag, meantime.

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"Meanwhile" Quotes from Famous Books

... In the meanwhile there had been a session between Maggie and the Duchess. At about the time Barney had whispered his unlipped news to Gavegan, Maggie, breathless with her frantic haste though she had made the journey in a taxicab, entered the familiar room behind ...

— Children of the Whirlwind • Leroy Scott

... the universe, giving the spirit to God, but declaring matter to be eternally and incurably evil; and looking forward to the time when the spirit should be emancipated from the body, as the beginning of, or as the return to, its proper existence, took no especial care what became the meanwhile of its evil tenement of flesh. If it sinned, sin was its element; it could not do other than sin; purity of conduct could not make the body clean, and no amount of bodily indulgence could shed a taint upon the spirit—a ...

— Froude's Essays in Literature and History - With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc • James Froude

... Maria Luisa, tossing her large head as she followed her lord and master to the door of their house. Meanwhile Assunta, the old servant, glanced at Gianbattista, rolled up her eyes with an air of resignation, and spread out her withered hands for a moment with a gesture of despair, instantly drawing them in again beneath the folds of her ...

— Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster • F. Marion Crawford

... whaling-pike is similar to a frigate's boarding-weapon of the same name. The gaff is something like a boat-hook. With his gaff, the gaffman hooks on to a sheet of blubber, and strives to hold it from slipping, as the ship pitches and lurches about. Meanwhile, the spade-man stands on the sheet itself, perpendicularly chopping it into the portable horse-pieces. This spade is sharp as hone can make it; the spademan's feet are shoeless; the thing he stands on will sometimes irresistibly ...

— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville

... Hector, meanwhile, was bitterly complaining to his mother of the sufferings he had endured. "I wish that you'd let me go back to England, or try and get me some gentlemanly post in Sydney ...

— The Young Berringtons - The Boy Explorers • W.H.G. Kingston

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