Citations:wheresoever

English citations of wheresoever

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• 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.

  And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass.

analogous to whatever, whatsoever in "no X w___ever":

• 1962, Cooperative League of the U.S.A. Congress, Proceedings of the ... Biennial Congress of the Cooperative League of the USA

  They see no place wheresoever that they can help to effectively solve these world problems in which they know their necks are somehow or other involved , too . Yet there is something they can do , By the oh so very easy process of ...

• 2004, The Atlantic, volume 293, page 127:

  […] and “a Cinnabon stand, four cookie stands, three pretzel stands, three ice-cream stands, and no place wheresoever to buy an apple.”