whereat
Example Sentences
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In the morning, the soldier's father berates his son for a seduction; whereat the soldier berates in his father selfish and truculent senescence which so blatantly permits the young to die.
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She testified that the Viscount wanted her to try to get not him but his son, the Hon. Esmond Harmsworth, made Hungarian king, whereat she said she balked.
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Afterwards one of my staff said something about a 'jinx,' whereat I rebuked him sharply, 'There is no such thing as a jinx.'
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At the top of the lobe and a little back of centre is the stereognostic, whereat the brain recognizes the nature of solid bodies through the widely diffused sense of touch.
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“But you? It is for you that I fear!” whereat she laughed—a laugh, low and unreal, and said:—
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
