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• No man is valianter than he is in civil company, and where he thinks no danger may come on it, and is the readiest man to fall upon a drawer and those that must not strike again: wonderful exceptious and cholerick where he sees men are loth to give him occasion, and you cannot pacify him better than by quarrelling with him. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
• These decorations fall upon the breast or back; the same is done to the thin beard, which sprouts tufty from both rami of the chin, as in the purely nervous temperament of Europe; and doubtless the mustachios, if the latter were not mostly wanting, would be similarly treated. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
• For the same reason, when in use, the crystal should be overshadowed by the seer, and so placed that _no direct rays_ of light from sun, or lamp, or gasalier may fall upon it. How to Read the Crystal or, Crystal and Seer
• Then all is blank; and afterward the rains beat against the grimy windowpanes, or the snows fall upon my scant attire, the wheels rattle in the squalid streets where my life lies in poverty and mean employment.
• He is to skip three times while repeating thrice the following sentence, and after repeating three times forwards and backwards: thus (_forwards_) -- 'Fear and dread shall fall upon them by the greatness of thine arm; they shall be as still as a stone'; thus (_backwards_) -- 'Still as a stone may they be; by the greatness of thine arm may fear and dread fall on them'; he then is to say to his neighbour three times, 'Peace be unto you,' and the neighbour is to respond three times, 'Unto you be peace.' Moon Lore
• If I put kiwi fruit in my skyr, is there some kind of ancestral retribution that will fall upon my head? Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
• Jade Emperor cried, and he summoned Mountain God, ordering him to send mountains to fall upon the dragons.
• Idleness is the greatest curse that can fall upon man, for vice and crime follow in its train.
• Despite this, there are times when rays of golden pop sunshine fall upon the album and make me question how bittersweet the irony is.
• Anyway, major celebrations are called for and this means a visit to Munich's Oktoberfest where we'll fall upon fowl while downing tankards of beer.