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WHEREAT
Traducere în limba română
whereat adverb
la care; după care;
whereat he replied la care el răspunse;
the table whereat he had been seated masa la care se aşezase;
he said smth. whereat evervone laughed a spus ceva la care au râs toţi / toată lumea.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
When she went again, Mr. Dashwood was alone, whereat she rejoiced.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
In another second I was embracing and kissing her rapturously: "Bessie! Bessie! Bessie!" that was all I said; whereat she half laughed, half cried, and we both went into the parlour.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
A majority of the men who had witnessed the making of the bet decided in his favor, whereat the odds went up to three to one against Buck.
(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)
The gray steed rubbed my hat all round with his right fore-hoof, and discomposed it so much that I was forced to adjust it better by taking it off and settling it again; whereat, both he and his companion (who was a brown bay) appeared to be much surprised: the latter felt the lappet of my coat, and finding it to hang loose about me, they both looked with new signs of wonder.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
He held up two fingers as he passed, with a Benedic, fili mi! whereat Alleyne doffed hat and bent knee, looking with much reverence at one who had devoted his life to the overthrow of the infidel.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I turned to her, and looking in her eyes, said:—"But you? It is for you that I fear!" whereat she laughed—a laugh, low and unreal, and said:—Fear for me! Why fear for me?
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
All which he looked upon as if it were a dream or a vision; whereat I took great offence; for I had quite forgot the faculty of lying, so peculiar to Yahoos, in all countries where they preside, and, consequently, their disposition of suspecting truth in others of their own species.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
Whereat Mr. Bhaer confiscated her purse, produced his own, and finished the marketing by buying several pounds of grapes, a pot of rosy daisies, and a pretty jar of honey, to be regarded in the light of a demijohn.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
As I sat quietly meditating at my table, I heard something bounce in at the closet-window, and skip about from one side to the other: whereat, although I was much alarmed, yet I ventured to look out, but not stirring from my seat; and then I saw this frolicsome animal frisking and leaping up and down, till at last he came to my box, which he seemed to view with great pleasure and curiosity, peeping in at the door and every window.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
She never alluded to a certain person, but she thought of him a good deal, dreamed dreams more than ever, and once Jo, rummaging her sister's desk for stamps, found a bit of paper scribbled over with the words, 'Mrs. John Brooke', whereat she groaned tragically and cast it into the fire, feeling that Laurie's prank had hastened the evil day for her.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
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