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WHEREUPON
Traducere în limba română
whereupon adverb, conjuncție
după care; atunci, la care.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
He smiled with jovial condescension and added "Some sensation!" whereupon everybody laughed.
(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)
I was drenched and terrified, and fell instantly back into my old position, whereupon the coracle seemed to find her head again and led me as softly as before among the billows.
(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)
She insisted, and said, “Please, please,” whereupon I turned the oar over to her and obeyed.
(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)
Whereupon he betrayed a great fright, and cried aloud that he was a sick man and knew nothing, but would tell what he knew.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)
Whereupon the emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
Whereupon he sat up and ki-yi'd louder than ever.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
Whereupon he lay down sullenly and allowed the crate to be lifted into a wagon.
(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)
"And you are Mrs. Harker!" I answered at once; whereupon she held out her hand.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
Colonel Dent, their spokesman, demanded "the tableau of the whole;" whereupon the curtain again descended.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
And for the first block along the street he walked very stiff and straight and awkwardly, until he forgot himself in his thoughts, whereupon his rolling gait gracefully returned to him.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)