We visit the fields whereon our ancestors fought for liberty and a republic.
It is a place where kildees cry, And endless marches eastward lie, Whereonlooks down a ghostly sky.
Then shouted me the flowery way Whereon she walked with dreams, And bade me wait and watch her pass Among the glooms and gleams.
Then the Green Knight rode to a thorn whereon hung a green horn, and, when he blew three notes, there came three damsels forth, who quickly armed him, and brought him a great horse and a green shield and spear.
Then all the host of craftsmen, fearing for their lives, found out a proper site whereon to build the tower, and eagerly began to lay in the foundations.
Then rode he onwards all that day, and as he rode he saw a passing great bird sit in an old dry tree, whereon no leaves were left; and many little birds lay round the great one, nigh dead with hunger.
As soon as they were on board they saw a fair bed; whereon lay a crown of silk, and at the foot was a fair and rich sword drawn from its scabbard half a foot and more.
Anon he came to a cross, whereon was written in letters of gold, "It is not for a knight alone to ride towards this castle.
Then came forth the likeness of a bishop, with a cross in his hand, and four angels stood by him, and a table of silver was before them, whereon was set the vessel of the Sangreal.
He is an actor without a part to play or a stage whereon to play it; a hero without a flag; a bit of brute matter without an energizing force.
All would be swept clear--a bare, clean space whereon she would build their palace of delights.
In this room were two large, old-fashioned closets, each having its window, its washstand, and its array of pegs whereon to hang the simple and more necessary pieces of wearing apparel.
Setting spurs to his divine steed, Sigurd rode right through these flames, which then flickered and died down, and discovered in the centre of the fortress a mound, whereon lay an apparently lifeless warrior.
On the table is an outspread map of North America, consulted often by the attentive readers, whereon blank spaces denote regions as yet unknown to man.
Meanwhile they seemed to be advancing over a sea of desolation whereon were utterly lacking the signs of life--few enough even there along the shore.
In the shades of Greenwood stands a plain shaft of black marble whereon the passer-by may read as follows: "To the memory of an arctic hero, Captain George E.
Meanwhile an Eskimo built of snow inside the hut the customary divan--a raised shelf where the natives sleep--whereon were arranged the bear and reindeer skins for bedding.
Deeming it a high honor, he would not ask for the command of this squadron, for the expedition was a notable public enterprise whereon England should send its ablest commander.
Geeza, where the three great ones stand, is universally allowed to have been the site whereon Memphis once stood; and as a west wind took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red Sea (Ex.
A better clue is found in the name of the place whereon was fought the first decisive battle between the Tuath-de-danaan invaders and the Celtic (Firbolg) inhabitants, which gave the supremacy of the island to the former.
When Olive returned to consciousness she was lying on her own bed, the same whereon her mother had died.
There was a dull sound in her ears as of a myriad waters--the ground whereon she stood seemed reeling to and fro--yet she did not fall.
A fisherman, sun-tanned and jovial, pointed a stubby finger towards a grassy plot whereon stood three caravans, and it was with a thrill of pleasure that I drew near.
Infected be the air whereon they ride, And damn'd all those that trust them!
The top of the closet may be occupied by one broad, high shelf, whereon hats and bonnets may be kept in their proper receptacles.
He had occupied as a bed the couch whereon I had slept; and he informed me that he had been seized by evil spirits in the night, dragged from his bed, and tortured.
The father lifted the body in his arms from the bed whereon it lay in dread repose, and laid it upon the floor.
He stopped at the turn into a small street still more sequestered than those which led to it, and looked up to the angle on the wall whereon the name of the street should have been inscribed.
Whereon I went to Ina and told him of this new trouble, and he bade me go.
Whereon he looked at Nona suddenly, and said: "I mind that old promise.
We passed a great flat rock, whereon were strange markings and a hollowed basin, which stood behind the menhir near the cliff, and to this the path led, but not beyond, from the glen.
Call me heathenish if you like, but this is an unlucky night whereon to walk in the haunts of the good folk.
Whereon the abbot stayed in his walk and asked more, trying to look grave as he heard me, and soon he had all the story.
Well, you may be excused for making it, though indeed it is rash to bind oneself--nay, but it seems that this is one of those matters whereon I must hold my tongue!
Whereon from somewhere behind me Thorgils cried in his great seafaring voice: "There now, what did I tell you two owls?
Whereon the ealdorman glanced at them with a sly grin and wink to me, and I understood.
Whereon the man looked swiftly over his shoulder and saw that he was fairly trapped.
Whereon he threw the axe at the doorpost, so that it stuck there, and laughed at the new shout of applause, and so turned down his sleeves and bade me lead him where I would.
Truly all yearn for the past day as though it were that day whereon fate with such toil brought forth amrita.
The lines of sacrificial smoke from the hermitages, gray as the hair of an ass, were gleaming like banners of holiness, and rested like doves on the tree-tops whereon the wood-nymphs dwelt.
At Send, vulgarly called Seen, the hill whereon it stands is iron- oare, and the richest that ever I saw.
A little chapell at Merton, in the Earle of Shaftesbury's house, is paved with such tiles, whereon are annealed or enamelled the coate and quarterings of Horsey.
And station'd sentinel beside the cap; This man I apprehended in the act Of passing it without obeisance due, So as you ordered, I arrested him, Whereon to rescue him the people tried.
A big stag with antlers laid flat aback, and crouching to half his usual height, though going fairly fast, was slipping, silent and invisible, through thick but low brushwood immediately beneath the little hillock whereon I lay.
Rarely do watercourses or valleys of sufficient depth lend a welcome aid; recourse must usually be had to the reverse slope of the hill whereon the bustards happen to be.
But to-day he sat in state in his shabby chair, his head lying upon that table over which he had plotted and schemed for so many years, his white fingers almost touching the bit of paper whereon was written the ruin of the Saracinesca.
For myself I hated him heartily, and he, looking down at me from the peak of pride whereon his iron soul perched, despised me with equal intensity.
An old stone arch (whereon lovers linger in the moonlight) spans the stream and links the Old Town with the new, which we sometimes term the Flats, but more often simply Over There.
Where she like VENVS doth appeare, Vpon a Rosie bed; As Lillyes the soft pillowes weare, Whereon she layd her head.
O I could wish this place were strewd with Roses, And that this Banck were thickly thrumd with Grasse As soft as Sleaue, or Sarcenet euer was, Whereon my Cloris her sweet selfe reposes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whereon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
