The history of my husband's family is so well known that it seems almost superfluous to dwell upon it, but, as these reminiscences are purely personal, I may at least incidentally refer to it.
I love to dwell upon Mrs. Clinton because, apart from her remarkable personal characteristics, she was the friend of my earlier life.
In his early life Irving was engaged to be married to one of his own ethereal kind, but she passed onward, and among his friends the subject was never broached as it seemed too sacred to dwell upon.
It is so obvious that I do not need to dwell upon it to vindicate his change of persons, viz.
And there are pictures and books, and sights of various sorts, flashed before the eyes of you young men and women which it is pollution to dwell upon, and should be pain to remember.
This River of Topahanock, seemeth in breadth not much lesse than that we dwell upon.
The imagination likes to dwell upon this, for the new order is capable of infinite extension.
Many horrible and impressive scenes, such as the mediaeval mind loved to dwell upon, are depicted.
For they (the sisters) asked me to address them in writing, since it would comfort them to have before their eyes, and to dwell upon, the words which I then spoke in sadness.
But even in its fragments the work is a thing to dwell upon, a monument which bears the stamp of wide knowledge and lofty thought.
Let it suffice, that it is a fit soil for praise to dwell upon: and what dispraise may set upon it is either easily overcome, or transformed into just commendation.
We all know that; so that I do not need to dwell upon it.
It is a well-worn commonplace, which you may think it not needful for me to dwell upon here, that in the Christian theory, both of salvation and of morals, the basis of everything is trust.
Now, there are only two thoughts that I wish to dwell upon as suggested by these words.
Now inasmuch as the thing befell according to my prediction, what need for me to dwell upon it, after saying how it would be?
It was no time to dwell upon that, only to try, if might be, to prevent the crime they were bound upon.
It was very pleasant there in the copse, sloping to the west as it was, and the sun descending brightly, with rocks and banks to dwell upon.
Commonplace as the scene was, he found it restful to dwell upon in a lazy fashion.
There is enough in everybody's life to make him sad if he sulkily selects these things to dwell upon.
And then I may say, at the same time, though I won't dwell upon it for more than a moment, let us take the same thought to teach us to moderate our fears.
I do not want to dwell upon these at any length, but let me just remind you of one or two of them.
We all know that prayer is essential, and so I do not need to dwell upon it; go and ask Him, and you will get what you need.
I find it impossible, even now, after the lapse of years, to dwell upon my parting with her who despatched me on so strange an errand.
Yet this tale has little to do with this service, however I love to dwell upon it.
I like not todwell upon it even in thought; but you have trusted me, and we are here together as men of a common race in face of death.
I could not trust myself to dwell upon it within the two days that had elapsed since my return from a vacation month in Powhatan.
Mr. Terhune is very anxious that I should accompany him to Powhatan, but I dare not suffer my mind to dwell upon a project so charming.
So then, with that knowledge, just let me dwell uponone or two considerations suggested.
There are other aspects of His work in heaven which space will not allow me to dwell upon, though I cannot but mention them.
And so, if we put these two incidents together, we get two or three thoughts that it is worth our while to dwell upon.
A vein of fine thought is at once set flowing; but for “Ragless” it would have flowed in vain, as dogs have no surname to dwell upon.
I was much dissatisfied with myself, when I came to think of it, for allowing as I did this boatman’s story so to dwell upon my mind, that even the fair invalid in the stern lost many little due attentions.
But now there was no time to dwell upon that, for the flood was arising and rolling in loops, like the back of a cat who has descried a dog.
The character of Rufus is not one which the loyal historian will love to dwell upon.
Some have suggested that the Bye-House plot was a name invented as a kind of sequel to the notion of Oates, and the conspiracy of the Meal-Tub; but the hypothesis is far too trifling for us to dwell upon.
Such an unfortunate sovereign as Charles is a melancholy subject to dwell upon, but we must not cut him short though his contemporaries cruelly served him so.
The constitution is the first topic on which we have still to touch, and that is a theme which every true patriot loves to dwell upon.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dwell upon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
