Sentence examples for whence he was from inspiring English sources

Balthasar Permoser was trained in Florence under Foggini, whence he was summoned to Dresden in 1689.

His problem is that his degree was earned in prison, whence he was recently released.

He was born in a Christian orphanage in Vietnam, whence he was adopted to Germany by two loving parents.

During the fighting, Khālid escaped and took refuge at the German consulate, whence he was conveyed to German East Africa.

Without even taking leave of his daughter, the fallen minister started on the long journey to exile in Nizhny-Novgorod, whence he was soon transferred to the even more distant Perm, in the Urals.

In 1877 Emin Paşa (a German administrator) became governor of the equatorial provinces and made his headquarters at Lado, whence he was driven in 1885 by Mahdists from the Sudan.

They simply abandon each Monster on the Killing Rock, whence he is carried off to be eaten by eagles.

Incongruously directed in Indonesia by Welshman Evans, The Raid plays its head-cracking hand in a high-rise Jakarta slum where the local crime lord has taken residence, and whence he is due to be flushed by a top Swat team.

The once world-beating Heat director now offers a laborious cyber-thriller, with Chris Hemsworth as an imprisoned hacker who keeps copies of Derrida in his cell, whence he's recruited to help Chinese and American law enforcers foil an online evildoer.

Κάπηλος signifies in general a retail trader, who sold goods in small quantities, whence he is sometimes called παλιγκάπηλος, and his business παλιγκαπηλεύειν (Dem. c. Dionysodor. p1285; Aristoph. Plut. 1156; Pollux, VII.12); but the term is more particularly applied to a person who sold ready-dressed provisions, and especially wine in small quantities (Plat. Gorg. p518).

He was educated in Scotland, whence his ancestors came, although precisely where he was schooled is unknown.