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wherewith

[wair-with, -with, hwair-] / wɛərˈwɪθ, -ˈwɪð, ʰwɛər- /


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Douay's Dalila, for example, asked Samson in stodgy Elizabethan English "Wherewith if thou wert bound thou couldst not break loose?"

From Time Magazine Archive

By you; by those deceptive cadences Wherewith the common measure is refined .

From Time Magazine Archive

Safety unlook'd-for! silent 'light the wings Wherewith Thy voice, O Christ, swift-healing brings: Far-reaching hand Thy word has, and Thou healest Absent and present, even as Thou willest.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

Ha! but the Titan's ardour Wherewith thou scour'dst the vast, To spoil the starry larder Of fruits of heavenly taste!

From The Three Hills And other Poems by Baudelaire, Charles

Wherewith into her heart that had been empty of all things whenas the god might dwell there no longer, there came a new sweetness it could scarce hold, so great was the flood thereof.

From The Stars in the Pool A Prose Poem for Lovers by Wallace, Edna Kingsley




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