"At least, you can tell the purpose wherefor you came?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference

April 26, 2007 at 7:13 am oh bukkit, bukkit….wherefor art thou, bukkit?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mah bukket i mournz it - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

And they had not competent livehode to find with their children; wherefor they made much care.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Symbolism of Freemasonry] Reference

Ah, sir, that steed he hath benome me with strength; wherefor my lord will slay me in what place he findeth me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

Speak and hide naught of that wherefor thou art come; for I know why ye come and what is your errand, which is thus and thus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Whatever there is good in us they bring it out; wherefor may they be forever honored in the myriad of hearts they come to lighten and to bless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference

By this time my curiosity was excited to the utmost, and, catching hold of a small sapling, I leaned far over the edge to observe the why and wherefor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference

When Jim Bolivar returned Pepper was trying to reason out the wherefor of being hitched behind such a handsome vehicle as Peggy's surrey, and Jess was protesting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home] Reference

So she asked the people and they told her that the Sultan did not hold a levee every day, but only thrice in the sennight, wherefor she determined to return home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tehran Winter] Reference

And after such fashion he continued weeping and wailing till he swooned away for excess of sobbing and lamentation, wherefor Aladdin's mother was certified of his soothfastness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tehran Winter] Reference

Here was I racing along like a schoolboy, and wherefor?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fool and His Money] Reference

Now have I learnt thee aright; wherefor though burn I the hotter, 5.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference

But an ye kill us you will kill us wrongfully and ye wot not wherefor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

Likewise some may ask me wherefor I, the last male offspring of the old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

He could go out camping or hunting with his buddies and nobody knew the wherefor.    From Wordnik.com.  [WordPress.com News] Reference

Nothing less true, whether as respects the work itself or the principal object wherefor I work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books First Series] Reference

And when she came to perfect age she was baptized, wherefor she was in great hate of her father.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Legend, vol. 4] Reference

She must know the day and hour when he had cast anchor there, wherefor he had chosen to lodge in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margery — Complete] Reference

In the afternoon I set forward toward Keswick, wherefor Randal Alston had loaned me his mare and gig.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time] Reference

She must know the day and hour when he had cast anchor there, wherefor he had chosen to lodge in the Genoa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

He who moves not a limb is persuaded, perhaps, he is wise; but was this the purpose wherefor mankind was created?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wisdom and Destiny] Reference

Who ever so commended him as thou didst in all those praiseworthy things wherefor a man of worth should be commended?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference

And after such fashion he continued weeping and wailing till he swooned away for excess of sobbing and lamentation; wherefor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

O Earthshaker, the purpose within my breast, wherefor I gathered you hither; even in their perishing have I regard unto them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad] Reference

Lesser Treasury had been brought to them and used by them but that the whole had proved insufficient; wherefor he bade open the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

Then shall it appear that the true ideal of omnipotent and ever-present good is an ideal wherein and wherefor there is no evil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unity of Good] Reference

All this thou threatenest thyself to take my meed of honour, wherefor I travailed much, and the sons of the Achaians gave it me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad] Reference

Rabbinical injunctions, as, for instance, the one relating to the limits of a Sabbath day's journey, wherefor his reward was that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1] Reference

Moreover, I am young and youth is altogether subject to the laws of Love; wherefor that which pleaseth Him, needs must it please me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference

The king had not perceived this thing and recked not of her, wherefor she suffered intolerable chagrin, past all that can be imagined.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference

And this is an high unperceivable prayer, as to my sight: for all the cause wherefor we pray it, it is oned into the sight and beholding of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Revelations of Divine Love] Reference

Then thought I to myself: -- 'Verily I have gained the object wherefor I had feigned sickness'; and I was assured that it availed no more to practise deceit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference