where-for

Updated: May 15, 2025

In the morning the scorpions would crawl up through holes in the cellar, through broken windows, through the trap-doors, down the long stairway that wound from the second and third stories over the broken pavilion, and from nobody could tell where-for they came, it seems, from every rat-hole, and with rolling white eyes, marshalled themselves for battle.

F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams - Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life