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  • _While thus I called, and strayed I know not whither,

    The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

  • While thus I called, and strayed I knew not whither,

    Paradise Lost: The Eighth Book 1909

  • Fount, tree and shed are gone, I know not whither,

    Poems of Coleridge Arthur Symons 1905

  • In fact, I gave him permission to commence at once his descent to that bourne whither,

    Dross Henry Seton Merriman 1882

  • When we had sailed a good while after this manner, we knew not whither,

    Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) Robert Paltock 1732

  • While thus I called, and strayed I knew not whither,

    Paradise Lost John Milton 1641

  • Christ himself than hear the Pope or a prince be touched in the least, especially if it be anything that concerns their profit; whereas he that so taxes the lives of men, without naming anyone in particular, whither,

    The Praise of Folly Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • 920: While thus I call'd, and stray'd I knew not whither,

    Paradise Lost (1667) 1667

  • "Quicksand years that whirl me I know not whither,

    The Life Radiant Lilian Whiting

  • “I then bowed, and strode rapidly onward, I knew not whither,

    Wild Western Scenes Jones, John Beauchamp 1875

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