The rarest that e'er came there.
Shak.
There is sometimes used by way of exclamation, calling the attention to
something, especially to something distant; as, there, there! see
there! look there! There is often used as an expletive, and in this
use, when it introduces a sentence or clause, the verb precedes its
subject.
A knight there was, and that a worthy man.
Chaucer.
There is a path which no fowl knoweth.
Job xxviii. 7.
Wherever there is a sense or perception, there some idea is actually
produced.
Locke.
There have been that have delivered themselves from their ills by their
good fortune or virtue.
Suckling.
There is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a
pronoun. See Thereabout, Thereafter, Therefrom, etc.
There was formerly used in the sense of where.
Spend their good there it is reasonable.
Chaucer.
Here and there, in one place and another.
Syn. — See Thither.
{ There"a*bout` (?), There"a*bouts` (?), } adv. [The latter spelling is
less proper, but more commonly used.] 1. Near that place.
2. Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or
thereabouts.
Five or six thousand horse . . . or thereabouts.
Shak.
Some three months since, or thereabout.
Suckling.