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Whereinto   Listen
adverb
Whereinto  adv.  
1.
Into which; used relatively. "Where is that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not?" "The brook, whereinto he loved to look."
2.
Into what; used interrogatively.





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"Whereinto" Quotes from Famous Books



... it into the subterranean passage like an archway; whereupon I gave myself up for lost and said, "There is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah, the Glorious, the Great!" However, after a little, the raft glided into open air and I saw before me a wide valley, whereinto the river fell with a noise like the rolling of thunder and a swiftness as the rushing of the wind. I held on to the raft, for fear of falling off it, whilst the waves tossed me right and left; and the craft continued to descend with the current nor could I avail to stop it ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton
... the citie of Alexandria, being a hauen towne, and vnder the dominion of the Turkes, there is a roade, being made very fensible with strong wals, whereinto the Turkes doe customably bring their gallies on shoare euery yeere, in the winter season, and there doe trimme them, and lay them vp against the spring time. In which road there is a prison, wherein the captiues ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of - The English Nation, Vol. 11 • Richard Hakluyt


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