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Whereabout

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Where´a`bout`
adv.1.About where; near what or which place; - used interrogatively and relatively; as, whereabouts did you meet him?
2.Concerning which; about which.
n.1.The place where a person or thing is; as, they did not know his whereabouts.
A puzzling notice of thy whereabout.
- Wordsworth.


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This had been Silas's testimony, though he clutched strongly at the idea of the pedlar's being the culprit, if only because it gave him a definite image of a whereabout for his gold after it had been taken away from its hiding-place: he could see it now in the pedlar's box.
Silas Marner by Eliot, George View in context
He returned soon after noon; having obtained information of the whereabout of Mrs.
I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context
There was no sound of their whereabout, when the Dodger descended the stairs, bearing the light in his hand, and followed by a man in a coarse smock-frock; who, after casting a hurried glance round the room, pulled off a large wrapper which had concealed the lower portion of his face, and disclosed: all haggard, unwashed, and unshorn: the features of flash Toby Crackit.
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