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Example sentences for "dwelt upon"

  • From the way in which the fish is dwelt upon in his legend, it may, indeed, be conjectured that he stood to Peredur in some such relation as Finn-eges to Fionn.

  • In the B versions it is the spiritual power of the Grail which is dwelt upon.

  • Parzival's love for his wife is dwelt upon at length, and he is urged by the hermit rather to rejoin her than to seek the Grail.

  • Between the first and the second stage of the Reformation of the Church of England in this reign, a political change occurred which must be mentioned but need not be dwelt upon.

  • Separation from the world was one of the ideas he dwelt upon in his addresses; and to him this meant that no unbelievers, no unbaptized, could remain within the walls of an Anabaptist city.

  • There were indeed some very late examples of brickwork of some value, but really, save the cathedral, there is not much architectural art to be studied or dwelt upon in Milan.

  • Only Hume's treatment of the concept of causality is dwelt upon.

  • Kant is here distinguishing the immanent a priori, such as that involved in any causal judgment, from the transcendent a priori dwelt upon in the next paragraph.

  • One point of great importance must be dwelt upon before we pass from the Paralogisms.

  • For the problem is viewed in the Dialectic as involving considerations altogether different from those dwelt upon in the Analogies, and as being without application to the matters of which they treat.

  • Oft as the rolling years bring back this hour, let it again, however briefly, be dwelt upon.

  • What their talk had been I never knew, for the subject was too painful to be dwelt upon, and the conversation had been marked by frankness on both sides.

  • It was very hard, that parting, and need not be dwelt upon.

  • Even if there existed some wonderful, understanding being to whom she might be able thus to empty her soul, the thought of the ecstasy of that kenosis was too troubling to be dwelt upon.

  • It is too knotty a point of ethics to be dwelt upon here.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    against the; attended with; average attendance; despite their; dwelt upon; forty yards; geometrical ratio; given volume; good thing; governing coalition; great influence; hide them; iron oxide; just published; lose their; more especially; nice little; proper amount; reach them; rose water; single witness; twelve volumes