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whence I. adverb

(de) unde;

whence comes it that? cum se întâmplă că?;

whence is he? de unde este?;

the source from whence it springs sursa din care provine, izvorul din care se trage.

whence II. conjuncție

de unde;

tell me whence you come spune-mi de unde vii.

whence III. substantiv

obârşie;

our whence originea noastră.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

It was late in the afternoon when the Professor and I took our way towards the east whence I knew Jonathan was coming.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Take these and go into the wide world, and tell no one from whence you come, and who is your father, for I have reason to be ashamed of you.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Elizabeth was at no loss to understand from whence this deference to her authority proceeded; but it was not in her power to give any information of so satisfactory a nature as the compliment deserved.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I again desired leave to depart, and was gently moving to my canoe; but they laid hold of me, desiring to know, “what country I was of? whence I came?” with many other questions.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

After a short consideration, Sir Thomas asked Crawford to join the early breakfast party in that house instead of eating alone: he should himself be of it; and the readiness with which his invitation was accepted convinced him that the suspicions whence, he must confess to himself, this very ball had in great measure sprung, were well founded.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

He earnestly pressed her, after giving the particulars of the house and garden, to come with her daughters to Barton Park, the place of his own residence, from whence she might judge, herself, whether Barton Cottage, for the houses were in the same parish, could, by any alteration, be made comfortable to her.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

As I exclaimed 'Jane! Jane! Jane!' a voice—I cannot tell whence the voice came, but I know whose voice it was—replied, 'I am coming: wait for me;' and a moment after, went whispering on the wind the words—'Where are you?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

We could not ourselves see whence the rock had come, but our half-breed servants, who were still at the opening of the cave, said that it had flown past them, and must therefore have fallen from the summit.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whence did I come?

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the lamp in his hand.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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