from what place
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Whence means "from what place or cause" and should not be preceded by from.
From Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses by Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)
Naturally I had already become very much interested in this big, bronzed Indian; and so I said to him, “Tell me who you are, and from what place you have come.”
From By Canoe and Dog-Train by Young, Egerton Ryerson
She wondered where it was, from what place it had been sent.
From The Blue Lights A Detective Story by Kummer, Frederic Arnold
On the best kind of dates which come in wooden boxes you will find Muscat or Busrah stamped to show from what place they were shipped.
From Topsy-Turvy Land Arabia Pictured for Children by Zwemer, Samuel Marinus
On arriving at the court-house, there happened to be no one present who was acquainted with Mr. J. The presiding officer inquired from what place he had been sent to Maloun.
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John
