Citations:which


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * When at the first I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode; nay, I had undertook To make another; which, when almost done, Before I was aware, I this begun.
 * And thus it was: I, writing of the way And race of saints, in this our gospel day, Fell suddenly into an allegory About their journey, and the way to glory, In more than twenty things which I set down.
 * Neither did I but vacant seasons spend In this my scribble; nor did I intend But to divert myself in doing this From worser thoughts which make me do amiss.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.
 * Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
 * Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed.

Utterance of the word "which"

 * 1959, William Van O'Connor, Modern prose, form and style (page 251)
 * The ofs and the whiches have thrown our prose into a hundred-years' sleep.
 * 1989, Donald Ervin Knuth, Tracy Larrabee, Paul M. Roberts, Mathematical writing (page 90)
 * Is it not true, TLL asked of Mary-Claire, that people invariably get their whiches and thats right when they speak?