I swept the horizon, and saw at one glance the glorious elevations, on whose tops the sun kindled all the melodies and harmonies of light.—Beecher.
Men may be ready to fight to the death, and to persecute without pity, for a religion whose creed they do not understand, and whose precepts they habitually disobey.—Macaulay
Beneath these sluggish waves lay the once proud cities of the plain, whose grave was dug by the thunder of the heavens.—Scott.
Many great and opulent cities whose population now exceeds that of Virginia during the Revolution, and whose names are spoken in the remotest corner of the civilized world.—Mcmaster.
Through the heavy door whose bronze network closes the place of his rest, let us enter the church itself.—Ruskin.
This moribund '61, whose career of life is just coming to its terminus.—Thackeray.
So in Matthew Arnold, Kingsley, Burke, and numerous others.
Which and its antecedents.
115. The last two sentences in Sec. 108 show that which may have other antecedents than nouns and pronouns. In 5 (a) there is a participial adjective used as the antecedent; in 5 (b) there is a complete clause employed as antecedent. This often occurs.
Sometimes, too, the antecedent follows which; thus,—