Word: wherewith
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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DEARE JNO, - I promised to send you from time to time an epistle wherewith you might be assured that I was still of this world, and still devoted to you, so I take this opportunitie of enclosing these lines to you in a cover to my dear mother. Harvard College, you must know, is situate in a lonely plain, not far from y towne of Boston. There is one principal building in which we all sleep, partake of nourishment, and abyde, numbering twenty-seven souls. It is a large and fair brick structure two storeys high...
...came to pass that Square waxed hungry, and he went into a shop and began to eat. And the master of the shop said unto him, "Hast thou wherewith to pay for that which thou eatest?" And Square answered and said, "Yea, verily, have I this piece of gold." And the master of the shop took the piece of gold, and looked upon it, and bit it with his teeth, and said, "This is not gold, but the semblance thereof. Therefore give unto me gold, or I will call upon the guards, and they shall give thee over...
...came to pass that Cute waxed hungry, and he went into a shop and began to eat. And the master of the shop said unto him, " Hast thou wherewith to pay for that which thou eatest?" And Cute said unto him, " Hold thy peace...
...necessary often enough to make any considerable expense; even if it did, the occupant of the room would be willing to pay part of the expense for the sake of the lustre added to the room, and the relief from the monotony of society shingles and cheap pictures wherewith many of our walls are adorned...