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Sentences starting with upon

Upon the plains you will see a cloud arising, not in the sky, but from the ground--a billowy surf of drifting snow; then another white billow from the sky will sweep down and meet it, and you are caught between. [11]
Upon my soul, you two should fence like a pair of veterans. [11]
Upon my word, you know, it's quite serious and in earnest, that's clear. [12]
Upon my soul, yes, a sort of ambassador! [11]
Upon your knees, ye pauper scum, and do him reverence! [5]
Upon these two words he stamped, through them he perspired mightily, and with them he clenched his stubby fingers--such fingers as dug trenches, or snatched lewdly at soft flesh, in days of barbarian battle. [11]
Upon the castle, with the flag of the duchy, waved the republican tricolour, where for a thousand years had floated a royal banner. [11]
Upon gaining the wide opening he decided to cross it and follow the left wall till he came to the cattle trail. [13]
Upon these resolutions when they shall be put on their passage I shall be compelled to vote; so that I cannot be silent if I would. [7]
Upon one occasion, when he was desperately enamored of a lady whom he wished to marry, he got Irving to write for him a love-letter, containing an offer of his heart and hand. [4]

Sentences ending with upon

And suddenly there would be a shout, and Mammy's turban go flying from her woolly head, or Mammy herself would be dragged down from behind and sat upon. [9]
She asked them what they were about and what they had resolved upon. [5]
Now you know we're obliged to put people into those houses to take care of 'em--very often undeserving people that we can't depend upon. [12]
This wanting things was the corner-stone of my character, and I believe that the science of the future will bear me out when I say that it might have been differently built upon. [9]
To him it was inconceivable that a young woman of such qualities as she appeared to have, should assail him so persistently for freeing a negress, and so depriving her of a maid she had set her heart upon. [9]
Immediately after he was fired upon. [11]
But the die was cast now, and pride alone was sufficient to hold me to the course I had rashly begun upon. [9]
Some thought it unladylike for the young maidens to take part in a competition which must attract many lookers-on, and which it seemed to them very hoidenish to venture upon. [6]
This River of Topahanock, seemeth in breadth not much lesse than that we dwell upon. [4]
She had been told often enough that she was fair to look upon. [6]

Short sentences using upon

Also upon the Zulu. [5]
We hang upon your decision. [8]
Well, upon my word! [5]
H. Upon my word! [5]
Speculations upon him were irresistible. [9]
Much, therefore, depends upon yourselves. [7]
The sperrit was upon you! [5]
Lord, have mercy upon us. [11]
What history crowds upon us! [4]
What hath come upon thee? [11]

Sentences containing upon two or more times

Above this Damour wrote for himself an order upon the chamberlain of Bercy to enter upon Philip's private apartments in the castle; and thither he was fleeing as Philip lay dying in the dark room of the house in the Rue de Vaugirard. [11]
I think you would conclude that it was, if your liberty depended upon it, and so would Judge Douglas, if his liberty depended upon it. [7]
George Washington's machine would act upon the right one; Pizarro would act upon the wrong one. [5]
It might be worth while to inquire what effect this exciting accumulation of the news of the world upon an individual or a community has upon happiness and upon character. [4]
And in its worst form, too; for it was not a tax upon what the miner had taken out, but upon what he was going to take out--if he could find it. [5]
The wizened Elder, with eyes upon the ceiling and his long white chin like ivory on his great collar, began to pray, sitting where he was, his hands upon his knees. [11]
Aye, you certainly will, depend upon that my beauty, depend upon that!--Here, Anubis! [10]
We saw only wig-making establishments, with shocks of dead and repulsive hair bound upon the heads of painted waxen brigands who stared out from glass boxes upon the passer-by with their stony eyes and scared him with the ghostly white of their countenances. [5]
The low words which the artist exchanged with the woman whose love, even during the period of separation, would shed light and warmth upon his darkened life, were deeply impressed upon the souls of both. [10]
They know that when the initiated come upon her first erudite allusion, or upon any one of her other stage-properties, they can shut their eyes and tell what will follow. [5]

More example sentences with the word upon in them

Among other presents Zopyrus received a gold hand-mill weighing six talents, the most honorable and distinguished gift a Persian monarch could bestow upon a subject. [10]
Here three naked youths, with trays upon their heads, cried aloud at each doorway what, interpreted, was: "Pies! [11]
Pray consider everything yours that you find upon the--upon the body. [12]
When you lose, you're martyrs; but I don't find that when you win, you look upon the other losers in that light. [12]
The influence of your telegram the other day is still upon me, and has impressed me with the idea that there are many parts of the problem which influence you that are not known to me. [7]
Report to me your opinion upon the availability for good of the enrolled militia of the State. [7]
You yourself, in your law practice, are always insisting upon the sacredness of contract as the very basis of our civilization. [9]
At the threshold your eyes fall upon a Latin sentence of welcome, sometimes, or a picture of a dog, with the legend "Beware of the Dog," and sometimes a picture of a bear or a faun with no inscription at all. [5]
You cannot keep your enthusiasms down, you cannot keep your emotions within bounds when that soaring bubble of marble breaks upon your view. [5]
He counts upon your coming, for I said I thought you would. [11]
Some one person--some young woman, it must be--had produced a singular impression upon him since those earlier perilous experiences through which he had passed. [6]
He is a young Titan, and no one would be astonished if he one day succeeded in piling Pelion upon Ossa. [10]
I recognized the young officer who had put a hand upon Alixe. [11]
Then the seven young men turned them away from their homes, and the strangers shut the doors upon them. [5]
It afforded the young man genuine pleasure to wait upon the faithful old woman and give her her medicine and barley-gruel. [10]
Even as a young lad, his father's notable place in the colony, and the freedom and gaiety of life in Quebec and Montreal, had drawn upon him a notice which was as much a promise of the future as an accent of the present. [11]
This touched the young fellow's sympathetic nature, and at the same time gave him the painful sense of being an intruder upon a sacred privacy, an observer of emotions which a stranger ought not to witness. [5]
They took the young and the aged, the decrepit and the sick upon their backs and left for tide-water in disorderly procession, the tadpoles following and the bull-frogs bringing up the rear. [5]
But I ask you, would you have taken the same deep interest in setting the law upon this suspected man did you not believe him to be an infidel? [11]
I imposed upon you, when I made you think Lelaps came from Swabia; he was really born in the desert, where the tigers live. [10]
When I've told you, then you must say whether you will have anything to do with it, or with me.... You remember," he continued, without waiting for her to speak, "you remember that day upon the Ecrehos--five years ago? [11]
No censure upon you, or either of you, is intended. [7]
When I wrote you, I thought I had it; whereas I was only merely entering upon the initiatory difficulties of it. [5]
When I kissed you, I set the seal upon my eternal offering to you. [11]
But I pray you, do not accept this law upon my say-so; but diligently examine for yourself. [5]
But I tell you, as you know, that everything will depend upon a leader, even if you secure the men.... [11]
He exactly suits you, and we congratulate you upon it. [7]
So, even though you will lose the joy of revenge upon a hated enemy, forget what has happened, as I did, and maintain your former affectionate companionship. [10]
Watch yourself, and you will find impulses which, but for the restraints you put upon them, would make you do the same foolish things which you laugh at in that cousin of yours. [6]
In any event, you will be able to prevent the main body of the enemy's forces from leaving Richmond and falling in overwhelming force upon General McDowell. [7]
At that time you were wise enough not to attempt to pass comment upon accidents in business affairs which are, if deplorable, inevitable. [9]
I remember when you were a prisoner with me upon the Ottawa. [11]
I particularly advised you to use your cavalry and light artillery upon his communications, and attempt to cut off his supplies and engage him at an advantage. [7]
But I wish you to understand that, though I am unwilling to go upon this platform, you are not at liberty to draw inferences concerning any other platform with which my name has been or is connected. [7]
Another one tells you that this is an exaggeration; that the two chief villages, Port Louis and Curepipe, fall short of heavenly perfection; that nobody lives in Port Louis except upon compulsion, and that Curepipe is the wettest and rainiest place in the world. [5]
I should tell you that this doubt has been confirmed into something very nearly approaching certainty by the best opinions we have been enabled, in this short space of time, to take upon the subject. [12]
It's lucky for you that from what she let fall, I've got the clue I want, for if I hadn't, I'd have visited the failure upon you, I can tell you. [12]
I have blessed you so, My lips upon your lips; between must flow The river--Oh the river! [11]
Take any road you please, you may depend upon it you will not stay in it half a mile. [5]
I cannot tell you now what my trouble is; but I can say that no other living woman has a claim upon me. [11]
I can see you now almost as vividly as I saw you that night when you sat flashing and beaming upon those sombre swallow-tails. [5]
I knew that you meant all you urged upon me; that you liked me. [11]
Now I wish you just to consider that he was right about that, and that he had his reasons for saying that England did not look upon our Revolution as a foreign war, but as a civil war fought by Englishmen. [5]
My note to you I certainly did not expect to see in print, yet I have not been much shocked by the newspaper comments upon it. [7]
If, upon reflection, you Howellses find, you can stop over here on your way, I wish you would do it, and telegraph me. [5]
He said: 'There--now you have touched upon a crying defect in the complaint system. [5]
Be thankful that you have once known them, and remember that even the learned ignorance of a nomenclature is something to have mastered, and may furnish pegs to hang facts upon which would otherwise have strewed the floor of memory in loose disorder. [3]
As it is, you have fallen into an annuity of one hundred and fifty pounds a year; but I think I may congratulate you even upon that. [12]
The more requirements you can pile upon him, the better he likes it. [5]
It was told you by some old beau who lives upon the memory of the past. [9]
If we lead you across the mountains now, his blood will be upon your heads. [9]
I will read you a written statement upon the subject that I wrote three years ago to read to the Sabbath-schools. [5]
The sight of yonder shining steeples and roofs seems to make your heart laugh, Sir Wolf, and, by Our Lady, you have good reason to bestow one or more candles upon her, for, besides other delightful things, a goodly heritage is awaiting you in Ratisbon. [10]
The poor bird yonder is as well qualified to encounter it, and be turned adrift upon its mercies--Hark! [12]
A few years yonder in the desert--power, glory, wealth won for Egypt, the strength of thine arms known, the piety of thy spirit proven, thy name upon every tongue--on thy return, who then should fear for Egypt! [11]
They were hostile; yet when the favourite intimated that he, too, ought to be given up to justice, she showed so much hesitation, that Alexas stopped abruptly and turned the conversation upon Barine. [10]
Starvation was not yet upon the garrison, and ere it would be reached Fort Pickens might be reinforced. [7]
He could feel yet her hand upon his brow. [4]
They had not yet gone to rest, for loud laughter fell upon her ear from the large sheds, open on all sides, which stood over the dyers' vats. [10]
It was Sunday; yet at Canterbury the streets were empty; strangest of all, there was not even a priest in sight, and no stroke of a bell fell upon my ear. [5]
There would be yet a half-hour's sun and then a short twilight, and the river and the woods and the Rest of the Flax-beaters would be her own; and she could think of the wonderful thing come upon her. [11]
A year, two years, passed, which were as ten upon the shoulders of the old people, and then, in the dead of winter, an important thing happened. [11]
A man invests years of work and a vast sum of money in a worthy enterprise, upon the faith of existing laws; then the law is changed, and the man is robbed by his own government. [5]
Close upon thirty-six years I have known those venerable men. [5]
She had been, years before, very ill in Paris, and the apprehensions for her safety now were based upon the recollection of her peril then. [4]
Four or five years ago, some workmen who were digging foundations for a house came upon this interesting relic of a long-departed age. [5]
Nearly a hundred years ago the crew of the British ship Bounty mutinied, set the captain and his officers adrift upon the open sea, took possession of the ship, and sailed southward. [5]
A woman who yearns for the regard of all men, and makes love a toy, easily lessens the demands she imposes upon individuals. [10]
Henceforth, whenever the yearning for the distant John seized upon her with special power, she thought of that night, and loaded the little sons near her with tokens of the tenderest love. [10]
In the previous year he had made a journey to Arizona with Jowett, to see some railway construction there, and at a ranch he had visited he came upon some verses which had haunted his mind ever since. [11]
It was a year after that terrible affair of the necklace, and she wished to be distracted from thinking of the calumnies which were being heaped upon her. [9]
Here was a yawning pit upon whose floor the armies of Russia could camp, and have room to spare. [5]
The last thing Wyndham did before he died in the grey of dawn--and this is told of him by the Gippies themselves-was to cough up the bullet from his throat, and spit it out upon the ground. [11]
His words so wrought upon us that it was a relief to us all when the conversation drifted into a more cheerful channel and the natural features of the curious country we were in came under treatment. [5]
Then the President wrote upon a paper before him, and it was passed to each member of the Court sitting with him. [11]
What she now wrote to John could hardly exert much influence upon him. [10]
He places me wrong in spite of all I can tell him, though I repeat it again and again, insisting that I have no difference with him upon this subject. [7]
Spite of the wrong he had done her, how gladly, had she not been lost to art, she would now have tried upon him its elevating, consoling power! [10]
As at first written it had one verse in it which sounded so much like a nursery rhyme that Emerson was prevailed upon to omit it in the later versions. [6]
Judge Hawkins had written and asked Clay to return home and consult with him upon family affairs. [5]
He explained in writing, and was very explicit: 'I declare upon my word of honour that I did not say the words attributed to me. [5]
And, if a writer dwells upon that solely or principally, is he not in danger of repeating himself, and also of becoming an egotist? [14]
Every letter Comyn writ me was nine parts Dolly, and the rest of his sheet usually taken up with Mr. Fox and his calamities: these had fallen upon him very thick of late. [9]
Forty of the wounded were placed upon pallets on the floor of a great public hall, and among these was Henry. [5]
The novelist who would turn loose upon society an insane murderess could not escape condemnation. [5]
And what effect would this change in relations have upon men? [4]
He thought they would then place troops at his disposal, with which he intended to impose upon them by making a few successful sallies at first. [10]
Day after day would the sun rise over the forest and beat down upon the little enclosure in which we were penned. [9]
This she hoped would repay Didymus for the injury which, to her deep regret, had been inflicted upon him, and at least partially repair the loss sustained by the former library of the museum during the conflagration in the Bruchium. [10]
Heaven, she thought, would pour its favour upon her too lavishly if the report that Don John was to be appointed Governor of the Netherlands should be verified. [10]
His lost sight would permit him, Hermon, from reaping fresh laurels, and his friend would so gladly bestow this one upon him. [10]
Millions upon millions would not have seemed to him too large a price for this object. [10]
Some believed he would march at once, others that he could not accomplish the investment before fall, others that the siege would be long, and bravely contested; but upon one thing all voices agreed: that Orleans must eventually fall, and with it France. [5]
Then his forehead would knot and furrow itself, and the drops of anguish stand thick upon it. [6]
But when he would have taken it away, the little hand still clung, though the eyes were scarce opened upon life. [11]
Nature, too, it would have seemed, had forged a mood in keeping with the time, for there was no air stirring when we came in, and a strange stillness had come upon the landscape. [11]
A casual glance would have passed by these little dents; if Venters had not known what they signified he would never have bestowed upon them the second glance. [13]
The modest fellow would have liked fame thrust upon him for some worthy achievement; it might be for a book, or for the skillful management of some great newspaper, or for some daring expedition like that of Lt. Strain or Dr. Kane. [5]
The young Seigneur would have followed him, but the avocat laid a restraining hand upon his arm, and Medallion said: "Dear Seigneur, see, you can't fight him. [11]
What manly pride would have cheerfully permitted him to accept was opposed by the defiant desire to show me, your father, you, the whole world, that he would depend upon himself, and needed assistance neither from human beings nor even the gods. [10]

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