hereupon

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The teacher hereupon made a suggestion that seemed to satisfy everyone, and so the matter was settled.

From The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona by Marsland, Cora

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

Some people may hereupon say, so much the better; we say, so much the worse.

From Views and Reviews by James, Henry

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 James, Henry