Definition of "there"

And in a dark and dankish vault at home / There left me and my man, both bound together;

c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene i]

The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Genesis, 2, viii

To veil the heav'n, tho' darkneſs there might well / Seem twilight here.

1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

(Phone rings)MAN: Hello. Philosophy Department.CALLER: Is Jack there?MAN: Well, what do we mean when we say, "Jack"? Is there really such an entity? Or is Jack simply a description? A label. There are countless people who call themselves Jack. Can they all be doing so accurately? And by the way, where is this "there" you speak of? As I listen to you, I experience your voice as a physical sensation within my head. Certainly Jack isn't in there. Wherever your entity called Jack is, it's probably safe to say that that is where he is. At least for the moment.

2004, George Carlin, “IS ANYONE THERE?”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?‎, New York: Hyperion Books, page 117

The law, that threaten’d death, becomes thy friend / And turns it to exile; there art thou happy.

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iii]

A knight there was, and that a worthy man / […](please add an English translation of this quotation)

1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542,

And the rarest that e’er came there.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]

So that wherever there is sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced, and present in the understanding.

1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […]

There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:

1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Job, 28, vii

And spende hir good ther it is resonable;(please add an English translation of this quotation)

1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542,

These firms do not want the truth to get out and are financing these flights in the hope of dazzling the public. Yet the record of the gas engine is there for all to see.

1928 January, Captain Ferdinand Tuohy, “Why Don't We Fly?”, in Popular Science, page 144

anyway what was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

1937, Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography, page 289

Some of these theres are actual, that is, situated in currently ... Other theres are only virtual

1993, Edward S. Casey, Getting back into place: toward a renewed understanding of the place-world, page 54

It's very sad but all the same, / There’s something rather odd about Augustus.

1908, C. H. Bovill (lyrics), Jerome D. Kern (music), There’s Something Rather Odd About Augustus, song from the musical Fluffy Ruffles

There was a time when I tried to change my position, which was not in harmony with my conscience; […] .

1909, Leo Tolstoy, translator not mentioned, There are No Guilty People, in The Forged Coupon and Other Stories

There are intentional and unintentional towns.

1918, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, Notes from Underground, Part 1, II

All in a wood there grew a fine tree,

1895, Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes: Nursery Songs, XXII: The Tree in the Wood

Not far from Hodgensville, in Kentucky, there once lived a man whose name was Thomas Lincoln.

1897, James Baldwin, The Story of Abraham Lincoln: The Kentucky Home, in Four Great Americans

On a night, as he slept, there came a vision unto him, and a voice said, "Launcelot, arise up, and take thine armour, and enter into the first ship that thou shalt find."

1904, Uriel Waldo Cutler, Stories of King Arthur and His Knights, Chapter XXXI: How Sir Launcelot Found the Holy Grail

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