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WHEREOF
Traducere în limba română
whereof (înv.) adverb A. interog.
din ce;
whereof in it made? din ce e făcut?
whereof (înv.) adverb B. relativ
despre care;
the matter whereof he spoke chestiunea despre care a vorbit.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
In guarantee whereof, I attached myself to my seat by my hands.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
The word, which I interpret the flying or floating island, is in the original Laputa, whereof I could never learn the true etymology.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
These deeds, whereof no man knows, I speak for myself.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)
Notwithstanding the aversion with which I regarded the idea of entrapping him into any disclosure he was not prepared to make voluntarily, I should have taken him up at this point, but for the strange proceedings in which I saw him engaged; whereof his putting the lemon-peel into the kettle, the sugar into the snuffer-tray, the spirit into the empty jug, and confidently attempting to pour boiling water out of a candlestick, were among the most remarkable.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
These diversions are often attended with fatal accidents, whereof great numbers are on record.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
Of there being a breakfast, with abundance of things, pretty and substantial, to eat and drink, whereof I partake, as I should do in any other dream, without the least perception of their flavour; eating and drinking, as I may say, nothing but love and marriage, and no more believing in the viands than in anything else.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
Their tallest trees are about seven feet high: I mean some of those in the great royal park, the tops whereof I could but just reach with my fist clenched.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
I chiefly wanted to know, to what cause, in art or in nature, it owed its several motions, whereof I will now give a philosophical account to the reader.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
The latter part was altogether framed in the style peculiar to that people, whereof I learned some phrases from Glumdalclitch, while she was carrying me to court.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
And who knows but that even this prodigious race of mortals might be equally overmatched in some distant part of the world, whereof we have yet no discovery.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
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