Here too, if travelers will drive slowly along the wooded trails, they are most sure to come upon a startled deer, for there are more than 2000 roaming in the woodland.
That is the reason, old folks will tell you, you'll come upon so many good singers to this day along Pigeon Creek.
I come upon a rock ledge," said Noah with a great air of mystery, "and then I fell upon my knees.
First, Those that religiously name the name of Christ should depart from iniquity, because of the scandal that will else assuredly come upon religion, and the things of religion, through them.
Not far from the before-mentioned building we come upon the "Cento Camarelle," a prison consisting of a multitude of small cells.
In the town of Constantinople we come upon a wooden bridge, large, long, and broad, stretching across the Golden Horn.
Immediately above the grotto, in the direction of the town, we come upon a simple gravestone of white marble--the monument of the poet Virgil.
Further on we come upon an open canal, and we can perceive a village about two miles distant, also to the east of the track.
Then we come upon a larger building, the Palace of the Governor, who, to save himself the trouble and expense of having sentries at the entrances, had life-size representations of soldiers with drawn swords painted on the wall.
Every now and then we come upon a very spacious and well-lighted room, with gaudy candelabras of Bohemian glass, and a large steaming samovar.
Here at last we come upon a force of meaning which the word had never before attained.
Ogulnia; and, as I have already mentioned, within a few years we come upon a plebeian pontifex maximus, who was not even a Roman by birth, yet one of the most famous in the whole series of the holders of that great office.
All that Sunday we pressed forward, hasting as we could through the stark columned aisles of the autumn-stripped forest, and looking hourly to come upon Tarleton's legion marching out to Ferguson's relief.
And now I come uponanother of those flitting instants so crowded with happenings that the swiftest pen must seem to make them lag.
But if I by the finger of God cast out devils, doubtless the kingdom of God is come upon you.
Prohibiting us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to the end.
It is cheering to come upon such a fair company of spring beauty where but a few days since were none; to enter a stretch of woodland and find it populous with these friends of a lifetime, now returned to their old haunts.
To count among one's friends, the birds and flowers and trees is surely worth while; for to come upon a new flower is then in the nature of an agreeable event, and a chance meeting with a bird may lend a pleasant flavor to the day.
It is impossible to come upon a wild animal and watch it unobserved without deriving a subtle impression foreign to our usual life.
Chapter 11 The Mooncalf Pastures So we two poor terrestrial castaways, lost in that wild-growing moon jungle, crawled in terror before the sounds that had come upon us.
But conceive how it would seem to decent Londoners, for example, to come upon a couple of living things, as big as men and absolutely unlike any other earthly animals, careering about among the sheep in Hyde Park!
The only thing is to beat round about until we come upon it.
Illustration: "I do not like to come uponsnakes in that manner.
I don't know where we carried it at first, but I began to come upon it in unexpected places.
Behind some rocks we come upon a few huts, all empty but for some calabashes of water and some fetish rags.
The sameness of the forest scenery was very tiring and very depressing, and we only longed to come upon the enemy, or for them to come upon us, to give a little variety to the monotony.
To invade suddenly; to take sudden hold of; to come upon suddenly; as, a fever seizes a patient.
It is extraordinary the effect which poetry of this kind has upon us when we come upon it suddenly, after a long interval, in the crowded pages, say, of some little anthology.
How excellent it is, in this modern world, to come upon the "equinimitas" of the great ages!
It is a proof that the soul of man, confronting the worst terrors that can come upon it, is still capable of turning all things into grist for its mill.
I afterward learned that her affliction had come upon her as the result of illness when she was a child.
Under the spell of her magic influence I wavered in the conviction which had long since come upon me, that I had for years been her fool and her dupe.
Zion must suffer, for the scourge and judgment must come upon her.
Strict orders were circulated among the saints not to be the aggressors, but to warn the mob not to come upon them.
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