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Example sentences for "whence the"

  • They reckon that it was founded in the time of Tarquinius Priscus by a colony of Etruscans, under a leader named Rhaetius, who established there the worship of Neptune, whence the name of Tridentum or Trent.

  • A church was shortly after built here, and being the first in the neighbourhood, was called Eccelesia, whence the name of Cles.

  • A columbarium was a tomb containing a number of cinerary urns in niches like pigeon-holes, whence the name.

  • The beds of lava rise in successive gently-sloping plains, towards the interior, whence the deluges of melted stone have originally proceeded.

  • The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name.

  • Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.

  • It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name; the wolverene.

  • Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name.

  • The ground yields abundant crops of cabbage, onions and tobacco, in which a lively trade is done with Chinese middlemen, who buy for the merchants at Pekalongan, whence the product is shipped to larger centres of trade.

  • Of the rana paradoxa the larva or tadpole is as large as the frog, and dwells in Surinam, whence the mistake of Merian and of Seba, who call it a frog fish.

  • Ere he turned again towards the harbour, he had reascended the cloud haunted Pisgah whence the words of Lady Florimel had hurled him.

  • The type is often used in foundries, or to serve heavy hammers in a smithy, whence the name.

  • In colonial days cattle were rounded up and branded here--whence the name.

  • On or near the site of Council Bluffs, in 1804, Lewis and Clark held a council with the Indians, whence the city's name.

  • An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name).

  • It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.

  • The old cakes were mostly made of dough, whence the proverb 'my cake is dough,' i.

  • Gaudee originally meant a prayer beginning with Gaudete, whence the name; see Gaudez in Cotgrave.

  • Cucurbites, vessels supposed to bear some resemblance to a gourd, whence the name (Lat.

  • They were spurious coins imported into England from Luxembourg, whence the name.

  • He also took note, that the lengths of a shadow and its object were equal, whence the sun's altitude must have been 45 degrees.

  • The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.

  • Learn the origin of serpents, Whence the poison of the adder.

  • It is said to have been originally made at Gaza in Palestine, whence the name.

  • The city of Geneva is situated at the south-western extremity of the beautiful lake of the same name, whence the "arrowy Rhone" flows westwards under the seven bridges by which the two halves of the town communicate with each other.

  • Manured ground, that is, soil containing decomposing vegetable or animal matters, is constantly giving out this gas into the interstices of the soil, whence the roots of the growing crop absorb it.

  • Imbricate or Imbricated, in which the outer parts cover or overlap the inner so as to "break joints," like tiles or shingles on a roof; whence the name.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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