whereat
Example Sentences
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Afterwards one of my staff said something about a 'jinx,' whereat I rebuked him sharply, 'There is no such thing as a jinx.'
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Hearing that another entire trainload of students were about to leave Shanghai, President Chiang wired orders that the train must not leave, whereat the students threatened to wreck the station.
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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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Lanky, dimpling Mr. Wheeler daily needled his foes so expertly that they forgot their vows of silence in roars of rage, whereat Mr. Wheeler cut them down as efficiently as a Greek sniper.
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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
