Citations:elsewhence

English citations of elsewhence

1. From elsewhere; from some other place or source.
   • 1830, William Taylor, Historic Survey of German Poetry: Interspersed with Various Translations, page 338:

     Now when the time was come, the faithful friends,
     

     With but one squire to carry shields and swords,
     

     Set off, and through bye-ways arriv’d at Morlaix,
     

     As if they came elsewhence; but the fair lady,
     

     By six-and-twenty knights accompanied,
     

     On the high road in loitering state proceeded.

   • 1883, Edmund Martin Geldart, Simplified Grammar of Modern Greek, page 57:

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   • 1922, Denton Jaques Snider, A Biography of William Shakespeare: Set Forth as His Life Drama, page 189:

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   • 1923, Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes of Michael, Lord of Montaigne, page 239:

     Now all things being exactly furnished elsewhence with all necessaries to maintaine this being, it is not to be imagined that we alone should be produced in a defective and indigent estate, yea, and in such a one, as cannot be maintained without forrain helps.

   • 1965, E.B. Ince^?, The Law Journal, page 220:

     (4) Thomas Saunders, who (though his home is not mentioned in such MS.) is known elsewhence to have been of Sibertoft.

   • 1976, Kenneth Tynan, The Sound of Two Hands Clapping, page 34:

     Elsewhence in Shakespeare: Macbeth seeing the dagger, Malvolio finding the letter, Hotspur confronting Henry IV, and mainstream-jazz settings of ‘Sigh No More’, ‘Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind’, and ‘When Icicles Hang by the Wall’.

   • 1879, James Clyde, Rudiments of the Latin language, page 76:

     Aliŭs yields the following series: —

     ălĭbī,  elsewhere.    ăliās,    at another time.

     ăliō,   elsewhither.    ălĭtĕr,    in another way.

     ăliundĕ, elsewhence.   ăliōquī(n), in other respects.

   • 1986, Lyon Sprague De Camp, Blond Barbarians & Noble Savages, page 23:

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   • 2004, Jean-Henri Fabre, Bramble-Bees and Others, page 186:

     People pass at every moment, coming out of the house or elsewhence.

   • 2004, Jean-Henri Fabre, The Life of the Spider, page 158:

     What cares the Lycosa for her brood! She accepts another’s as readily as her own; she is satisfied so long as her back is burdened with a swarming crowd, whether it issue from her ovaries or elsewhence. There is no question here of real maternal affection.

   • 2005, James A. Richards, The Outline of Knowledge: Essays, page 92:

     Such as extend their choller and hatred, beyond their affaires (as most men doe) shew that it proceedes elsewhence, and from some private cause: Even as one being cured of an ulcer, and his fever remaineth still, declareth it had another more hidden be-…

   • 2006, Peter Cole, Coyote and Raven Go Canoeing: Coming Home to the Village, page 49:

     laurie anderson talks about language acting as a virus  (Anderson, 1994)
     

     but a lot of people seem to take it pretty much for granted as a truth
     

     and tricksters along with chance operations get their door in the foot
     

     and beknew you for it  every back is wardthing and downside ups
     

     what in english is referred to as the past does not exist everywhere universally
     

     ucwalmicwts does not have this temporal locativity in the english sense
     

     rather the present just opens its wings and is every/where other/wise pervasive
     

     the past and future are not trapped outside the eternal now
     

     elsewhere  elsewhence wise and whither