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Example sentences for "upon him"

  • In another instant the pitiful fabric would fall inward, and the two would be upon him, rending his flesh from his bones, gnawing the bones themselves, fighting for possession of his entrails.

  • If he do not desire it, or do not bargain for it, the government has no more right than any other insurance company to impose it upon him, or make him pay for it.

  • With a frightful yell of mingled hatred and execration, the seething human mass bore down upon him!

  • Brian knew that not one man in a thousand would have spoken in such a way; his father's unworldliness was borne in upon him as it had never been before.

  • Raeburn was a comparatively young man, very little over forty; but his anxieties and the almost incredible amount of hard work of the past two years had told upon him, and had turned his hair gray.

  • Mac 9:31 Upon this Jonathan took the governance upon him at that time, and rose up instead of his brother Judas.

  • She leaned forward and smiled approval upon him.

  • And then an idea flashed in upon him--a magnificent, irresistible idea.

  • Other thoughts came crowding in upon him.

  • Inquiries as to his right of title had poured in upon him, and to all of them he had returned the most absolute and final assurances.

  • The Chimes came clashing in upon him as he said the words.

  • Roused, now, by her cheerful summons, he shook off a melancholy shake of the head which was just coming upon him, and trotted to her side.

  • But, before he had gone five hundred yards, some other and different feeling would come upon him, and then he would lag again, and pulling his hat over his eyes, give way to the melancholy reflections which pressed thickly upon him.

  • New lights shone in upon him, in respect of his nose.

  • The mechanician was standing bolt upright, planted on both feet, like some victim dropped straight from the gibbet, when Raphael broke in upon him.

  • Only here, with this lovely landscape all around him, could Raphael endure the burden laid upon him; here he could remain as a languid dreamer, without a wish of his own.

  • I broke in upon him, disclosing, with an affectation of light-heartedness, the state of my finances.

  • I thrust it upon him, and pushed him towards the door.

  • He took a step forward; her eyes and mine were riveted upon him; and I still wonder which of us admired him the more, as he stood there in his pride and his humility, gallant and young, and yet shamefaced and sad.

  • And he held out his hand to our love, who had been watching him all this time with eyes of stone; but now she turned her back upon him without a word.

  • Slowly Barney Custer realized his plight, as there filtered through his mind a suggestion of the possibilities of the trick that had been played upon him.

  • In another moment they would round the corner of the building and be upon him.

  • Barney was close behind him, but fear lent wings to the governor of Blentz, so that he was able to dart into the passage behind the picture and slam the door behind him a moment before the infuriated man was upon him.

  • He had not thought about the matter until her utter impossibility was forced upon him.

  • And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.

  • And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.

  • Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh.

  • For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

  • His wits drowned in the stiff liquor Vallancey had pressed upon him, he seemed of a sudden to have grown as fierce and bloodthirsty as any scourer that ever terrorized the watch.

  • And if any does--why, I shall be glad to prove it upon him that he lies.

  • Before him were his knotted and blistered hands, his long limbs outstretched in their coarse clothes, but in the vision beyond the little spring he walked proudly with his rightful heritage upon him--a Blake by force of blood and circumstance.

  • For a time Christopher stood gazing uneasily down upon him.

  • At the moment, had she come in upon him, he felt that he could have struck her in the face.

  • After the lapse of that period, he has something to say to us again, and we transiently look in upon him there.

  • But we propose to look in upon him ourselves, in this Apel House, on more authentic terms, by and by.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about sixteen; crew were; lightning conductor; many peoples; much nearer; occasion for; upon being; upon condition; upon deck; upon earth; upon every; upon examination; upon hearing; upon inquiry; upon occasion; upon our; upon pain; upon receipt; upon some; upon the; upon the other hand; upon thee; upon their; upon this; upon what; upon whom