whence
/ʍɛns/ conjunction C2- Used for introducing the result of a fact that has just been stated; thence · The work is slow and dangerous, whence the high costs.· I scored more than you in the exam, whence we can conclude that I am better at the subject than you are.
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She turned her sound eye towards the land that she might get the earliest tidings of the approach of hunter or hound, and her injured eye towards the sea, from whence she entertained no anticipation of danger.
Sherlock Holmes led me to the nearest telegraph office, whence he dispatched a long telegram.
Its windows looked east and west; through the west one, looking out on the back yard, came a flood of mellow June sunlight; but the east one, whence you got a glimpse of the bloom white cherry-trees in the left orchard and nodding, slender birches down in the hollow by the brook, was greened over by a tangle of vines.
I was too shaken to go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your advice.”
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