whereat
Example Sentences
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They decided to deport her, whereat she broke down and offered to spy for France.
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She testified that the Viscount wanted her to try to get not him but his son, the Hon. Esmond Harmsworth, made Hungarian king, whereat she said she balked.
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Last week an Italian Naval flotilla sailed into Mocha to exert further pressure, whereat the Imam, wasting no time in appeals to Geneva, begged directly for British help.
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"He is not in the Palace, Sir," the Duke was informed, whereat Windsor used a few choice expressions and the Keeper of the King's Privy Purse was finally coerced to the phone.
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“But you? It is for you that I fear!” whereat she laughed—a laugh, low and unreal, and said:—
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
