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You must return the ring whence it came.
From whence comest thou, and whither art thou bound?
Then he searched for her in the grotto, whither she had fled, and whence she had been dragged away.
Sherlock Holmes led me to the nearest telegraph office, whence he dispatched a long telegram.
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From the Earth whence forth ye fell!
Lead your armies and your ships over the sea, whence you came.
Dread, my lord. Your leave and favour to return to France, from whence, though willingly, I came to Denmark to show my duty in your coronation.
Who she is or whence she came, he knows not, nor does he care, for his heart tells him that here, here is the maid predestined to be his bride.
Their hut is occupied, so they retire to St. Mary of the Angels, whence they will spread the power of their meekness and their sweet love of peace.
Returning whence it came.
The sentence of this court. is that you be taken to the place from whence you came. from thence to a place of lawful execution.
And that I love the tree from whence thou sprang'st. witness the loving kiss I give the fruit.
Was it not she and that good man of worship. Anthony Rivers, her brother there. that made him send Lord Hastings to the Tower. from whence this present day he is delivered?
Hartheim, from whence trains with smoked windows depart, bearing passengers who will never be seen again.
I lift up mine eyes unto the mountains, from whence cometh my help.
Dread my lord, your leave and favour to return to France, from whence though willingly I came to show my duty in your coronation.
Go back from whence you came.
Like a breeze all too mellow will from whence in unison follow.
Whence is that knocking?
Whence come you and who bid you here?
From whence come you?
And now we consecrate the worldly remains of our beloved Jacques. to the good earth from whence he sprang.
From the summit whence the eagle flies, there are few superior men.
From whence it came?
You know, Mr. Klemper, Sir, a criminal is lost without information, and it matters little to his twisted mind whence that information comes.
Whence come you?
Say from whence you owe this intelligence. Or why upon this heath you stop our way with such prophetic greeting?
To leave his wife and his babes in a place from whence himself does fly?
And King George needed men too much to heed from whence they came.
To leave his wife, to leave his babes, all in a place from whence himself does fly?
The sentence of this court is that you be taken to the place from whence you came, from thence to a place of lawful execution.
Anthony Rivers, her brother there. that made him send Lord Hastings to the Tower. from whence this present day he is delivered?
From whence ariseth this?
Cassio, whence came this?
I was the one who pulled you out of yourself when you were nothing but a rat, dragged down in his misery and his confusion, not even daring to raise his head toward the little summit from whence you'd tumbled!
Say from whence you owe this intelligence.
News and current affairs
Already, many (former) politicians and economists (no prizes for guessing whence they mostly hail) are proposing that the EU issue its own sovereign debt, which would alleviate the problems of countries such as Greece and Italy.
This partly explains the curious flow of funds from developing countries to the US - from whence the world's problems originated.
Second, in order to understand how to cope with the problems that plague us - from terrorism to nuclear proliferation - it is sensible to know how and whence they emerged.