Careful Words

when (adv.)

  When found, make a note of.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870): Dombey and Son. Chap. xv.

He that will not when he may,

When he would he shall have nay.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

I am Sir Oracle,

And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.

When in doubt, win the trick.

When Israel, of the Lord belov'd,

Out of the land of bondage came,

Her fathers' God before her mov'd,

An awful guide in smoke and flame.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Ivanhoe. Chap. xxxix.

When Israel was from bondage led,

Led by the Almighty's hand

From out of foreign land,

The great sea beheld and fled.

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667): Davideis. Book i. Line 41.

As sweet and musical

As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair;

And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods

Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.

When lovely woman stoops to folly,

And finds too late that men betray,

What charm can soothe her melancholy?

What art can wash her guilt away?

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Hermit. On Woman. Chap. xxiv.

1 W.  When shall we three meet again

In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

2 W.  When the hurlyburly's done,

When the battle's lost and won.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 1.

When taken,

To be well shaken.

George Colman, The Younger (1762-1836): The Newcastle Apothecary.

  A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in the wit is out.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5.

'T was when the sea was roaring

With hollow blasts of wind,

A damsel lay deploring,

All on a rock reclin'd.

John Gay (1688-1732): The What d' ye call it. Act ii. Sc. 8.

When we two parted

In silence and tears,

Half broken-hearted,

To sever for years.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: When we Two parted.