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from The Century Dictionary.

  • From otherwhere.

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  • Not even if he gave me ten times, yea twenty, all that now is his, and all that may come to him otherwhence, even all the revenue of Orchomenos or Egyptian Thebes where the treasure-houses are stored fullest -- Thebes of the hundred gates, whence sally forth two hundred warriors through each with horses and chariots -- nay, nor gifts in number as sand or dust; not even so shall

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

  • Withal he made him a bow and arrows, and shot what he would of the fowl and the deer for his livelihood; and folk from that house and otherwhence came to see him, and brought him bread and wine and spicery and other matters which he needed.

    The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men William Morris 1865

  • I know no reason why whoso findeth him should suppose him to have been put there from this house rather than otherwhence; nay, it will liefer be believed, seeing he was a young man of lewd life, that he hath been slain by some enemy of his, whilst going about to do some mischief or other, and after clapped in the chest. '

    The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

  • Not even if he gave me ten times, yea twenty, all that now is his, and all that may come to him otherwhence, even all the revenue of Orchomenos or Egyptian Thebes where the treasure-houses are stored fullest—Thebes of the hundred gates, whence sally forth two hundred warriors through each with horses and chariots—nay, nor gifts in number as sand or dust; not even so shall Agamemnon persuade my soul till he have paid me back at the bitter despite.

    Achilles' Reply to the Envoys 1906

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