Sentence examples for whence when from inspiring English sources

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I used "whence" when I meant "whither", apparently - which will teach me not to use words that rightly went out of style about a hundred years ago.

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If exists, then by (c) when, whence.

(e) If exists, then by (c) when, whence.  .

When asked whence they had come, they pointed to the city and said, "That way," and when asked where they were going, pointed away from the city and said, "This way".

The rearmost court backs onto the mountain, whence spirits descend temporarily when invoked.

"Home" was a picturesque French farmhouse in the village of Saint-Ouen-Marchefroy Saint-Ouen-Marchefroy Saint-Ouen-Marchefroyd repair west filming duties in Rofe were done.

In later eons would many a child of Folo ask, "Mother, from whence comes the saying 'When the cudgel hits the cake'?" And few could answer with any certainty.

After flirting with promotion in their first three seasons in the Football League, Morecambe came dangerously close to returning from whence they came last season when they finished 89th out of the 92 clubs.

Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he finds it empty, swept, and garnished.

He spent the longest morbid time trying to fathom whence all the shit came from when he was ingesting nothing at all but Codinex Plus.

Who knows then whence it first came into being?" When you have millions of gods, you cannot afford to be theologically narcissistic.

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