What is "thereat"

Usage examples of "thereat".

He had a certain kind of joy from such fittingness, not indeed that He then began to derive joy from it when He ascended into heaven, but that He rejoiced thereat in a new way, as at a thing completed.

Because man should always be displeased at having sinned, for if he were to be pleased thereat, he would for this very reason fall into sin and lose the fruit of pardon.

Cliges, who is mightily vexed thereat, presses with all his weight on his stirrups, and rides to strike him so rapidly that the Saxon, in spite of himself, has voided his saddle-bows.

Thereat laughed they all right jocundly only young Stephen and sir Leopold which never durst laugh too open by reason of a strange humour which he would not bewray and also for that he rued for her that bare whoso she might be or wheresoever.

And thereat none need marvaile if they consider the cause and reason, which was this: whilst the ships stayed, our allowance was somewhat bettered, by a daily proportion of Bisket, which the sailors would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us for money, Saxefras, furres, or love.

But the bold knight no whit thereat dismayd,But catching vp in hand a ragged stone,Which lay thereby (so fortune him did ayde)Vpon him ran, and thrust it all attoneInto his gaping throte, that made him groneAnd gaspe for breath, that he nigh choked was,Being vnable to digest that bone.

Thereat Sir Blandamour with countenance sterne,All full of wrath, thus fiercely him bespake.

Thereat mirth grew in them the more and they rehearsed to him his curious rite of wedlock for the disrobing and deflowering of spouses, as the priests use in Madagascar island, she to be in guise of white and saffron, her groom in white and grain, with burning of nard and tapers, on a bridebed while clerks sung kyries and the anthem UT NOVETUR SEXUS OMNIS CORPORIS MYSTERIUM till she was there unmaided.

Thereat mirth grew in them the more and they rehearsed to him his curious rite of wedlock for the disrobing and deflowering of spouses, as the priests use in Madagascar island, she to be in guise of white and saffron, her groom in white and grain, with burning of nard and tapers, on a bridebed while clerks sung kyries and the anthem Ut novetur sexus omnis corporis mysterium till she was there unmaided.

The waues come rolling, and the billowes roreOutragiously, as they enraged were,Or wrathfull Neptune did them driue beforeHis whirling charet, for exceeding feare:For not one puffe of wind there did appeare,That all the three thereat woxe much afrayd,Vnweeting, what such horrour straunge did reare.

And thereat John Gordon delivered himself of a vigorous flood of English, terse, intensive, denunciative, and composed solely of expletives and adjectives.

Thereat they greatly were dismayd, ne wistHow to direct their way in darkenesse wide,But feard to wander in that wastfull mist,For tombling into mischiefe vnespide.

Greatly thereat was Britomart dismayd,Ne in that stownd wist, how her selfe to beare.

Able as he was in sports and huntings, he was yet too young to be politic, but he remained impolitic to the end of his days, for whatever he was able to do he would do, no matter who was offended thereat.

And ever Sir Launcelot would give him gold to spend, and clothes, and so did Sir Gawaine, and where there were any masteries done, thereat would he be, and there might none cast bar nor stone to him by two yards.