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  • And dreamily smiles at the peach-tree leaves, where-through

    The House of Dust: A Symphony 1920

  • All this Sir Launcelot saw and beheld, for he slept not verily; and he heard him say: O sweet Lord, when shall this sorrow leave me? and when shall the holy vessel come by me, where-through I shall be blessed?

    Chapter XVIII. The Thirteenth Book. How Sir Launcelot, Half Sleeping and Half Waking, Saw a Sick Man Born in a Litter, and How He Was Healed with the Sangreal 1909

  • After this reckoning, where-through thy soul is raised to a blessed hope to the Father of mercy, and thy flesh waxes heavy, go to thy rest: for if thou hinderest thy flesh of its necessity, and work it beyond its might, faintly will it help thee, or hinder thee withal.

    The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises Richard Rolle 1901

  • As they stood they could see the ridge rear its ragged head to watch over the cleft where-through the two Wans race to be free.

    The Forest Lovers Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • They would not be bidden twice, but mounted and went along with him, who led them by a thicket path about a mile, till they came to a lawn where-through ran a stream; and there was a little house in it, simple enough, of one hall, built with rough tree-limbs and reed thatch.

    The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865

  • Now the way got rougher as they mounted; but this toil was caused by their gain; for the rock-wall, which thrust out a buttress there as if it would have gone to the very edge of the gap where-through the flood ran, and so have cut the way off utterly, was here somewhat broken down, and its stones scattered down the steep bent, so that there was a passage, though a toilsome one.

    The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865

  • Now he narrowly considered the land, and, lo and behold! it was a capital sans peer amongst the cities, where-through coursed the Dajlah River blended with the River

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Praised be Heaven, the scales are fallen from mine eyes; and after forty years 'wandering in the desert of Sinai, I am at length arrived in the Land of Promise -- My corrupt human nature has left me -- I have cast my slough, and can now with some conscience put my hand to the plough, certain that there is no weakness left in me where-through I may look back.

    Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801

  • Captain Dalgetty, “is a person altogether unparalleled in his own conceit, where-through he maketh not fit account of such foreign cavaliers of valour as are pleased to take service with him.

    A Legend of Montrose 2008

  • [FN#251] and quoth he whom God bless and keep, "None knoweth the number of the gates of heaven, save He who created it, and there is no son of Adam but hath two gates allotted to him in the skies, one whereby his subsistence cometh down and another where-through his works [good and evil] ascend.

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

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