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Example sentences for "place where"

  • A circle of about two feet in diameter is then nicely cut in the sod, which is carefully removed, with the loose soil immediately beneath it, and laid aside in a place where it will be safe from anything that may change its appearance.

  • About two days previously, they had heard the report of fire-arms among the mountains, and on searching in the direction of the sound, had come to a place where a deer had been killed.

  • So we followed him until we came to a place where, in summer, two quiet rivers flowed through green forests--the little Wabashes.

  • I believe I can get a position, in a place where I can see him often.

  • I think I know of a place where I can squeeze you in, near Professor Bridges and Sally, on the side aisle.

  • But a moment before the clerk had been in a place where he would fain have lingered--a city where blue waters flow swiftly between white palaces toward the sunrise.

  • These scenes were renewed for the space of five years, whenever we took up our abode in a place where it was understood that we were in possession of microscopes, telescopes, and electrical apparatus.

  • And therefore this is no place of perfection, and consequently no place where God's people can depart from iniquity as they should.

  • Then the Prince arose from the place where he was, and took with him such of his men of war as were fittest for that expedition, and marched up the street of Mansoul to the old Recorder's house.

  • And so this river of water of life is said to proceed out of the throne, as out of a place where it breaketh out, but the original is the sea, the ocean of grace, which is an infinite Deity.

  • He was pleased, and pointed me out a place where to lie, of which I took possession, and kept while I lived with him.

  • It would be a peach of a place where we could winter a herd of cattle, and have 'em fat for spring selling.

  • At last he could stand it no longer and crept to a place where he could peep out and see what was going on.

  • So Shadow's little eyes grew red with rage as he dodged this way and that and was gradually driven away from the place where he had found the trail of Jumper the Hare.

  • Whitefoot's curiosity kept him at a place where he could peep out and watch all that was done.

  • A place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.

  • If it had been more, we could hardly have accomplished the feat, for the strong current would have swept us down the stream, and we would have been exhausted and drowned before reaching a place where we could make a landing.

  • Having hobbled the horses, I took my gun, and walked down the watercourse, to a place where it forms a junction with a larger one, but in neither could I find any more water.

  • By following the river upwards I came to a place where we could descend into its basin, and as the water there, though brackish, was still drinkable, I halted for the night after a stage of fourteen miles.

  • At eleven we were ready, and moved away from a place where we had experienced so much relief in our extremity, and at which our necessities had compelled us to remain so long.

  • A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.

  • An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc.

  • A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.

  • Following the road to the south, which gradually descended, I soon came to a place where a road diverged from the straight one to the left.

  • I have never heard of more than one being seen, sir, and that was at a place where a tinker was drowned a few nights after—there came down a flood; and the tinker in trying to cross by the usual ford was drowned.

  • He put himself afterwards at the head of the rest, who followed him in troops, and carried me to a place where he laid me down on the ground, and retired with all his companions.

  • I got up to it, and was no sooner fixed in a place where I could not be seen, than I saw the vessel come to the same place where she lay the first time.

  • But now had I best bring you to some lurking-place where ye shall not be easily found of these devils, who now oft-times scour the woods hereabout.

  • So he went along the highway a little till he came to a place where was a footbridge over into the meadow.

  • May I ask, Sir, what is the object of your visit here--at a place where no gentlemen are received but the parents or guardians of some of the children.

  • He is as much out of place where he is, as a salmon would be in a horse pond.

  • Also I was sure that the canoe would be crushed to pieces with the weight of the snow, as we left it in a place where it had a good chance of being crushed to the ground.

  • Had hopes of a few fish at place where we found them spawning on our westward way, but was fearful of the cold.

  • That day just before noon, we came to a place where Mr. Hubbard had caught some fish when we were going up, and we thought that perhaps we could get some fish there again, but the little stream was nearly dry.

  • Finished Height of Land portage and came on to place where we dried caribou (second time), at head of Ptarmigan Lake.

  • Remember always that the world is a place where second-rate people mostly succeed: not fools, nor first-rate people.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    attract the; commonly said; its highest; many kinds; natural order; neither shall; place for; place like; place myself; place name; place named; place ourselves; place prepared; place the; place themselves; place where; place wherein; placed myself; placed over; placed the; placed upon; places where; right line; rising from his seat; soon perceived; who wrote