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WHEREWITH

Traducere în limba română

wherewith adverb

(înv.) cu ce, prin ce, cu care, prin care;

clothes where with to cover oneself haine cu care să se acopere.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

For, coz, since all thoughts are things, you have but to think a pair of herrings, and then conjure up a pottle of milk wherewith to wash them down.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meantime the master looked to see that the table was properly laid, and took the great knife, wherewith he was going to carve the chickens, and sharpened it on the steps.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

This is enough to say upon the subject of my diet, wherewith other travellers fill their books, as if the readers were personally concerned whether we fare well or ill.

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

After having found such a motif, he cast about for the particular persons and particular location in time and space wherewith and wherein to utter the universal thing.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

"Nay," old Ebbits interposed in kindliness, "the white man's is not a lying people. The white man speaks true. Always does the white man speak true." He paused, casting about him for words wherewith to temper the severity of what he was about to say. "But the white man speaks true in different ways. To-day he speaks true one way, to-morrow he speaks true another way, and there is no understanding him nor his way."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

Anne talked of being perfectly ready, and tried to look it; but she felt that could Henrietta have known the regret and reluctance of her heart in quitting that chair, in preparing to quit the room, she would have found, in all her own sensations for her cousin, in the very security of his affection, wherewith to pity her.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

We thank you for the wine, kind sir, said he, and for the ready courtesy wherewith you offered it.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Besides, that publishing firm did not own a magazine wherewith to make its claim less modest.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Therefore, in hopes to defray some of the charges he must be at, he bought a sloop, loaded it with several sorts of goods, wherewith the Tonquinese usually trade to the neighbouring islands, and putting fourteen men on board, whereof three were of the country, he appointed me master of the sloop, and gave me power to traffic, while he transacted his affairs at Tonquin.

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

Once a begging friar came limping along in a brown habit, imploring in a most dolorous voice to give him a single groat to buy bread wherewith to save himself from impending death.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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