Sentence examples for whence it was from inspiring English sources
Like haoma, the soma plant grows in the mountains, but its true origin is believed to be heaven, whence it was brought to earth by an eagle.
The Libellus was reproduced in its entirety by Bede in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, whence it was transmitted widely in the Middle Ages, and where it is still most often encountered by students and historians today.
LONDON — Mayor Gaynor's body lies in state in a flag-draped sealed casket in the Town Hall at Liverpool, whence it was escorted with appropriate ceremony from the White Star liner Baltic last evening [Sept. 12].
Following the breakup of the Golden Horde, the Crimean Tatars took their chattel to Kefe (Feodosiya) in Crimea, whence it was transported across the Black Sea and sold throughout the Ottoman Empire and elsewhere.
After the decline of Arretium production, terra sigillata was made in Gaul from the 1st century ad at La Graufesenque (now Millau, Fr). and later at other Gallic centres, whence it was exported in large quantities to outlying parts of the Roman Empire, including Britain.
The Romans later used Delos as a free port for the eastern part of the Mediterranean, and from there the worship of Serapis and Isis spread to most of the harbours of the Greek world and to the cities in the Bay of Naples, whence it was brought by Italian merchants to Rome.
It lies along the Irrawaddy River, 25 miles (40 km) below the confluence of its two headstreams, the Mali and Nmai rivers, whence it is navigable for more than 950 miles (1,530 km) to the sea.
Oxygenated blood arrives in the left atrium from the lungs and passes to the left ventricle, whence it is forced through the aorta to the systemic circulation.
A suction pump works by atmospheric pressure; when the piston is raised, creating a partial vacuum, atmospheric pressure outside forces water into the cylinder, whence it is permitted to escape by an outlet valve.
In a 2009 American diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks, Ilham Aliev, the Azeri president, was quoted as saying that the relationship was like an iceberg: nine-tenths of it was "below the surface".What is known is that Israel gets a good third of its oil from Azerbaijan, via a pipeline that ends at Ceyhan in Turkey, whence it is shipped to Israel.
An insoluble magnesium hydroxide precipitates to the bottom of a settling tank, whence it is pumped as a slurry, filtered, converted to magnesium chloride by reaction with hydrochloric acid, and dried in a series of evaporation steps to 25 percent water content.
