During a disastrous retreat from the walls of Ctesiphon, below modern Baghdad, Julian was wounded by a spear thrown "no one knew whence," which pierced his liver.
There are pedantic quirks, including a brief discussion over the correct use of "whence", which make unhappy turns of phrase stand out all the more: "The list of signatories was long and staunch".
Their demands that I be fired, kill myself, or go back from whence I came (which is Vancouver, FTR) only serve to prove my point.
As he becomes ever more bejeweled and famous in the Disney-style landscape of the overworld, his actions become more and more faithless and dishonest, watched over by a guardian angel figure, who finally castrates him, banishing him back into the depths from whence he came, which mirror the surroundings of the church where the film is presented.
Sybil Andrews's linoleum blocks demonstrate the technique; Cyril E. Power's "Whence and Whither?," in which people cascade into the London Tube, puts an English twist on Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase".
The escorts bundled us out at gunpoint when we asked to enter the dark door from whence they had come – which turned out to be a factory of murder, torture and mutilation.
On February 1 , 2015 on the occasion of the Super Bowl, the people at Carnival Corporation aired an advertisement with a recording of that speech, to encourage Americans to return "from whence we came," by which, I assume, they mean an unlimited prime-rib buffet.
These days, the word "authentic" is synonymous with "sounds like", so yes, he's authentic, with the caveat that authentic should really mean "true to the era whence it sprang", by which measure the most authentic 21st-century music would be the sound of MP3s bleeping or digital bytes going whrrrrr.
Yet nestled amid all the homey detail is a prickly awareness of the awesome mystery of existence, the void whence everything came and into which it all may one day go.
After some research I discovered that its earlier French spelling was chamerande, derived from latish Latin camerare meaning 'to vault or arch over', whence the Latin word camera, which is also the origin of chambre, 'a bedroom'.
But in fact, I guess most weekends he went back to his family and friends in suburban New York, which is from whence he came, from Long Island.
