A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

Knowing very well that his wife wanted to go to a movie, the husband, who was a dog in the manger, cooked up a scheme whereby they had to stay at home waiting for a certain visitor who was not expected to come.

We came here," they said, "to hunt, and having fastened our boat to the shore with a withfe of osiers, we roamed about with our dogs in search of game. In the meantime this young man's goats came to the shore and ate the osiers that secured our boat, whereby it was lost."

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

You take my house when you do take the prop, that doth sustain my house; you take my life, when you do take the means whereby I live.

But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it?

Russia guaranteed the sovereignty of Ukraine, and her borders, following the treaty of nineteen ninety-four, whereby Ukraine, in exchange, renounced her nuclear arsenal.

A skewer is called a tactical move whereby two pieces that are in the same line (row, column or diagonal) are simultaneously attacked, so that the first, when moving, dodging the attack, allows the capture of the other one.