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Example sentences for "brought upon"

  • Nor shall any bring upon them, or permit to be brought upon them, any injury, molestation, damage, or grievance.

  • I did not give the surname of Jongleur only to the latter until a long time after his enmity had been declared, and the persecutions he brought upon me at Geneva and elsewhere.

  • I would compare the effect of this last production to that of the Letter on French Music, had not that letter, while it brought upon me hatred, and exposed me to danger, acquired me respect and esteem.

  • But I paid dearly for the pecuniary ease I received from the piece, by the infinite vexations it brought upon me.

  • The Bank of the United States was destined to receive another, and a parting notice from General Jackson, and greatly to its further discredit, brought upon it by its own lawless and dishonest course.

  • Societies, individuals and foreigners were engaged in this diabolical work--as injurious to the slaves by the further restrictions which it brought upon them, as to the owners whose lives and property were endangered.

  • Now the occasion of this war was by no means proportionable to those heavy calamities which it brought upon us.

  • I can only say that I should wish I had died long ago, rather than have lived to witness such ruin, brought upon others, through us.

  • The worry which his folly had brought upon himself, and which ended in his own ruin and in the ruin of so many others, he had not felt.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    birch bark; brought about; brought back; brought before; brought down; brought from; brought her; brought here; brought into; brought near; brought nearer; brought together; brought unto; brought upon; but soon; cool slowly; female slaves; great beauty; had obtained; highly interesting; lord judge; made for; much engaged; overwhelming force; strong iron; toasted bread