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Example sentences for "whence they"

  • Mary Moore, both of whom were natives of Ohio, whence they removed to Illinois when the Prairie state was still but thinly settled.

  • In 1840 they emigrated to America and located in Iowa, whence they removed to Nebraska where the mother passed away.

  • Smaller kinds, as Garzetta, Nycticorax, arrive from the North in February, but commonly pass on still more southward, whence they return in May.

  • They continued their journey to Trebisond, on the south side of the Euxine; whence they proceeded by the way of Constantinople and Negropont to Venice, where they arrived in safety, and with great riches, in the year 1295.

  • So she asked him what they were, whence they came, and whither they were bound; and he told her.

  • Do you know who they are, whence they come, and what is their purpose in setting down before the town of Mansoul?

  • The battery of Royal Artillery marched from Norwich Barracks for Woolwich, whence they proceeded to the Crimea for active service.

  • At four o'clock the Royal party returned to Thorpe station, whence they proceeded to Wolferton.

  • At this place the Spaniards found several well dressed cows hides, though they could never learn from whence they came[180], and likewise other good skins of various kinds.

  • He found that the raw beans distilled with water in a retort communicated to it their flavour and rendered it turbid, whence they seem to contain some volatile oil.

  • They had determined to quit the South Sea, and with that view to sail to the coast of New Spain, whence they proposed to march over land to the shore of the Caribbean Sea.

  • August the 12th, they anchored at the Island Plata, whence they departed on the 16th, bound Southward, intending to return by the Strait of Magalhanes or Strait le Maire, to the West Indies.

  • But the firelight soon revealed the intruders; and Polyphemus immediately demanded who they were, whence they came, and what they were seeking.

  • Having assembled together, they marched towards the hill of Guanacauri, whence they intended to enter Cuzco.

  • The idol of Huanacauri was a great figure of a man, “their principal huaca, the brother of Manco Ccapac, whence they descend”.

  • In the north-west they are found at Kendal, Lancaster, Preston, Chester; whence they may be supposed to have migrated to Dublin.

  • For all practical purposes they can accordingly be considered as the aborigines of the Deccan, whence they appear to have spread over part of northern India.


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