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Tag Name "Whereupon" (11)

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Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.
Ida Lupino
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Jesus once caused a sick man to arise on the Sabbath and take up his bed, whereupon the pious of the land raised a great outcry. But Jesus answered with superior contempt that the Sabbath was there for the sake of man, not man for the sake of the Sabbath consequently, man was also master over the Sabbath.
Alfred Rosenberg
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I rang the bell of this small bed-and breakfast place, whereupon a lady appeared at an outside window. What do you want?, she asked. I want to stay here, I replied. Well, stay there then, she said and closed the window.
Chic Murray
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My agent had told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of England—I was going to play all the sweet roles. Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.
Ida Lupino
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The punch connected, but (1) Colin forgot to close his fist, so he was slapping not hitting, and (2) instead of slapping TOC, he ended up slapping Hassan flush across the cheek, whereupon Hassan finally succeeded in falling down.
John Green
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We had probably our best ever Player of the Year Dance last week. You elected Dennis Wise as Player of the Year. Dennis accepted his award mimicking Vialli, whereupon Zola shouted 'Speak English', Dennis switched to his normal Cockney voice only for Zola to shout 'You're still not speaking English'.
Ken Bates
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A colleague who met me strolling rather aimlessly in the beautiful streets of Copenhagen said to me in a friendly manner, You look very unhappy whereupon I answered fiercely, How can one look happy when he is thinking about the anomalous Zeeman effect?.
Wolfgang Pauli
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Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.
Charles Jencks
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Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. How much longer do you think you will live? she asked. You are already a skeleton. Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive.
Chinua Achebe
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The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man righteousness exalteth a nation for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.
Stanislaw Ulam