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Examples
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I saw a Thing I cannot describe and I asked of it whyfore am I?
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"Where to fly you, O! woman, and whyfore are you thus afraid?"
Desert Love Joan Conquest
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That is the whyfore of the cannon, in a way of speaking, because from a hill we can send to this man a slaying message, and leave the wheat standing to fill the bellies of those who are in his hands as a tyrant.
Caste William Alexander Fraser 1896
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Yep - that's the whyfore and wherefor of my forever argument on how most of this should have been handled and approached from the beginning - as the effort to disenfranchise the other branches of government that it has always been.
Firedoglake emptywheel 2010
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If that weren’t true, whyfore the proliferation of blogs?
Archive 2007-07-22 Dayle A. Dermatis 2007
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If that weren’t true, whyfore the proliferation of blogs?
Writing bits and bobs Dayle A. Dermatis 2007
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