wheresoever

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The Bashkirs, beginning to perceive here and there the approach of the Chinese cavalry, felt it prudent--wheresoever they were sufficiently 15 at leisure from the passions of the murderous scene--to gather into bodies.

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  1. conjunction In, to, or from whatever place at all; wherever.

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  • Oh, wondrous life that flows on and on, without beginning, without end, even as the river sings: 'Men may come and men may go, but I go on forever God is Truth, all truth, wheresoever or by whomsoever recognized, is the everlasting Truth that must forever be There is not a community or church, not a society or family, but is organized and held together by some phase of the all-embracing and perfect Truth. —  The Right Knock A Story
  • Like true philanthropists, whose foundation-motive is love to God, they do not limit their attentions to their own little neighbourhood, but allow their sympathies and their benefactions to run riot round the world--wheresoever there is anything that is true, honourable, just, pure, lovely, or of good report to be thought of, or done, or assisted Only one of these acts of sympathy and benefaction we will mention. —  Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan
  • From Paramatta, from New York, wheresoever, under what sort of Parish-Constable soever, English men and women are, they will say to one another: "Yes, this Shakspeare is ours; we produced him, we speak and think by him; we are of one blood and kind with him." —  Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
  • As far as our position was affected by it, the results were these:--Three days more were lost in making preparations, which ended in nothing; while, by the enemy, these same days were judiciously and indefatigably employed to improve their deficiency and recruit their force At last came the idea of digging a canal from the lakes to the river, by means of which a portion of our army might be thrown to the other side; a project which is said to have been suggested by Sir Alexander Cochrane; but which, wheresoever originating, was at once bold and judicious. —  The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815
  • Then he said Although lowly, it were high Had not censure come me nigh Had I not been censured so It were high though it be low Then Ciaran put his books upon a wild stag; afterwards he accompanied the wild stag wheresoever it would go. —  The Latin ; Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints
 

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