from what place

Example Sentences

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They did not know from what place they had come.

From The Tree-Dwellers by Brown, Howard V.

Whence means "from what place or cause" and should not be preceded by from.

From Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses by Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)

One day he gave me an account of a long march his company made, I forget from what place, but with Toronto as the objective point.

From The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion by Pope, Joseph, Sir

But the letters of Paul themselves make known to those who would know both what they are, and from what place, or what occasion they were sent.

From The Books of the New Testament by Pullan, Leighton

And from what place soever thou comest forth, turn thy face towards the holy temple; for this is truth from thy Lord; neither is God regardless of that which ye do.

From Sacred Books of the East by Various