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Example sentences for "the which"

  • The which I did and made it a long business, folding them with very little skill indeed but the more care; and sometimes dropping them with my tears.

  • The which we did until the girl returned, and I must suppose would have cut a very ridiculous figure had there been any there to view us.

  • And offered me his large, fine hand, the which (recovering at the same time my post in the doorway, as if with some thought of resistance) I took him by doubtfully.

  • Seven storeys up, there he was again in a house door, the which he looked behind us after we had entered.

  • And you have heard that he held by him in his life the spirit of faire Helena, the which had by him one sonne, the which he named Justus Faustus: even the same day of his death they vanished away, both mother and sonne.

  • And this is the devilish ploughing, the which worketh to have things in Latin, and letteth the fruitful edification.

  • By such wondrous deeds, he brought them into a certain goodly land, the which he had promised aforetime to Abraham the patriarch, that he would give it unto his seed.

  • For this prologe is so assised That it to wisdom al belongeth: What wysman that it underfongeth, He schal drawe into remembrance The fortune of this worldes chance, 70 The which noman in his persone Mai knowe, bot the god al one.

  • As Nabugodonosor slepte, A swevene him tok, the which he kepte Til on the morwe he was arise, For he therof was sore agrise.

  • All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.

  • And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

  • By Bilhah is understanden imagination, the which is servant unto reason, as Bilhah was to Rachel; by Zilpah is understanden sensuality, the which is servant unto affection, as Zilpah was to Leah.

  • This is that Issachar, the fifth son of Leah, the which in the story is cleped "Meed.

  • Jacob, that is Levi, the which is cleped in the story "a doing to.

  • Before long I had my riches in my pocket, and, moreover, the man begged me to write to him at Amsterdam whenever I found any more amber, the which I promised to do.

  • Straightway I resolved in my joy to invent a carmen gratulatorium to his Majesty, whom, by the grace of Almighty God, I was to see, the which my little daughter might present to him.

  • The which he was ready to take his affidavit he had composed the day before yesterday.

  • All of the which I have fully and faithfully recorded for such as shall trouble to read this narrative to the end.

  • Ever and anon would come the sharp crack of the drivers' whips followed by the squealing cry of quivering flesh (a cry wherein was none of the human) the which, dying to a whine, was lost in the stir and bustle of the great galleass.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    rode back; she writes; the days; the father; the month; the name; the president; the serpent; the sight; the sons; the stranger; the word; thee alone; then brown; then going; then proceed; then replied; then sweeten; then told; theological literature; theological seminary; there has; there might; there the; these may; they shall