wheresoe'er
Americanconjunction
Example Sentences
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His form is bent; his step is slow; His hands with fasting long are thin; And wheresoe'er his footsteps go, Men hear his muttered prayer and know He weeps for deadly sin.
From The Coast of Bohemia by Thomas Nelson Page
It is not now as it hath been of yore; Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull
I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoe'er I go.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
Dryden, Flower and Leaf, 191: "For wheresoe'er she turn'd her face, they bow'd."
From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Robert Carruthers
He that hies abroad to strangers doth account his friends his foes; He that honours not himself lacks honour wheresoe'er he goes.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson
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