125. In early modern English, as was used just as we use that or which, not following the word such; thus,—
I have not from your eyes that gentleness
And show of love as I was wont to have.
—Shakespeare
This still survives in vulgar English in England; for example,—
"Don't you mind Lucy Passmore, as charmed your warts for you when you was a boy? "—Kingsley
This is frequently illustrated in Dickens's works.
Other substitutes.
126. Instead of the phrases in which, upon which, by which, etc., the conjunctions wherein, whereupon, whereby, etc., are used.
A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and good abide.—Emerson.
The sovereignty of this nature whereof we speak.—Id.
The dear home faces whereupon
That fitful firelight paled and shone.
—Whittier.