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Example sentences for "entered upon"

  • The bushwhacking citizens of that frontier State, divided not unequally between the Union and Disunion sides, entered upon an irregular but energetic warfare with ready zeal if not actually with pleasure.

  • The conference of January 13 developed a serious difference of opinion as to the plan of campaign, whenever a campaign should be entered upon.

  • Soon after leaving the camp this morning, we entered upon an open country, the downs extending before us from the right bank of the river, the course of which was somewhat to the eastward of south.

  • Emerging from these obstructions, as from a feverish dream, we entered upon park-like scenery and good grass.

  • On passing through a Casuarina scrub, we entered upon a different kind of country as to wood and grass, the soil being much the same, or still more loose and sandy.

  • After passing this intricate meshwork of boggy channels, we entered upon an immense plain, with patches of forest appearing here and there in the distance.

  • After passing some Ironstone ridges, covered with stunted silver-leaved Ironbark, we entered upon a large plain, from which we saw some low ranges to the south, and smoke to the W.

  • When matters came to this point, the gipsies, without scruple, entered upon measures of retaliation.

  • The way proved longer than he had anticipated, and the horizon began to grow gloomy just as he entered upon an extensive morass.

  • Leaving the valley and the lonely downs regretfully behind, we entered upon a level country, and crossing the main Lewes road we proceeded straight forward into a tame land of flat fields.

  • Beyond Greywell we entered upon a low-lying land of lazy willow-bordered streams, a green and quiet land of luscious meadows loved of cattle, a land of lanes where under the same wheel The same old rut would deepen year by year.

  • In the afternoon we entered upon an ugly, barren, and broken country, corresponding well with that we had traversed a few degrees north, on the same side of the Colorado.

  • By this time I had come almost to my rill, when I entered upon a large plat of ground miserably over-run with weeds, matted together very thick.

  • About two hundred cadets were under instruction when I entered upon my duties.

  • Sergeant-Major Forbes, late of the 62nd Regiment, was the senior clerk, but before I entered upon my duties I acted as secretary to a committee of officers who had charge of the late Captain Robinson's effects.

  • I entered upon my duties full of life and ambition, determined to become a good mechanic, and at the end of five years my progress toward that end was quite satisfactory.

  • Thus far the journey had been easy and simple, but immediately after leaving White Pass we entered upon an exceedingly stony road, filled with sharp rock which had been blasted from the railway above us.

  • The next day opened cold and foggy, but we entered upon a hard day's work.

  • Leaving Clinton we entered upon a lonely region, a waste of wooded ridges breaking illimitably upon the sky.

  • He entered upon a campaign which was signalized by acts of barbarity on both sides.

  • It was under his direction that Uruguay entered upon a remarkable series of experiments in the nationalization of business enterprises.

  • Though guided by two such different passions, both were of the strongest of our nature--either sufficient to stimulate to the most earnest action; and without loss of time, we entered upon it in full determination to succeed.

  • Time alone would determine the point; and, turning my eyes up stream, I entered upon my earnest vigil.

  • Some such idea, vaguely conceived, flitted across my mind, as I entered upon my second journey to Mud Creek.

  • He passed at first through a mountainous district, covered with dwarf oak and ilex; afterwards he entered upon a tract of open undulating downs, dotted with thickets.

  • Crossing the sand-hills, he entered upon a bare and sterile plain, strewn with black pebbles, and studded with little mounds or hillocks of the same colour.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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