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hereupon

[heer-uh-pon, -pawn] / ˌhɪər əˈpɒn, -ˈpɔn /




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Johnson hereupon summoned management and labor negotiators to the White House.

From Time Magazine Archive

And hereupon my eyes I close, And fall asleep heart-glad, My God doth watch o’er my repose, Why should my heart be sad?

From The Little Treasure of Prayers Being a Translation of the Epitome from the German Larger 'Treasure of prayers' ['Gebets-Schatz'] by Anonymous

Ah! charming Tourandocte," hereupon cried the prince of the Nagäis, "is it possible that you entertain such favourable sentiments towards me?

From The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' by Julia Pardoe

Mrs. Westgate hereupon, foreseeing what she mentally called “complications,” immediately got up; and the two ladies, taking leave of their English friend, returned, under conduct of their American, to Jones’s Hotel.

From Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales by Henry James

The last canon hereupon passes into a general exhortation to right living, which forms a sixth part of the whole book.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various




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