hereupon

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Johnson hereupon summoned management and labor negotiators to the White House.

From Time Magazine Archive

In order to re-enforce Master Humphrey, the deaf gentleman, and the other original members of his benevolent conclave, he hereupon resorted to a natural, but none the less unhappy, expedient.

From Dickens English Men of Letters by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir

The bishop hereupon called together his flock, and, setting before them the example and teaching of their Lord, called on them to act up to it.

From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

Mrs. Westgate hereupon, foreseeing what she mentally called “complications,” immediately got up; and the two ladies, taking leave of their English friend, returned, under conduct of their American, to Jones’s Hotel.

From Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales by James, Henry

The teacher hereupon made a suggestion that seemed to satisfy everyone, and so the matter was settled.

From The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona by Marsland, Cora