How To Use Fall upon In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Jade Emperor cried, and he summoned Mountain God, ordering him to send mountains to fall upon the dragons.
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Idleness is the greatest curse that can fall upon man, for vice and crime follow in its train.
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Despite this, there are times when rays of golden pop sunshine fall upon the album and make me question how bittersweet the irony is.
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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.
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Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee?
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Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee?
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Dick looked about him, but could see nothing at all suitable until his gaze happened to fall upon the window of a house opposite him, which was closed by a kind of jalousie shutter.
In Search of El Dorado
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Kamakim went straight to the depressed floor of the saloon and came to the slab, under which he had buried the stolen goods and let the rod fall upon it with such violence that the marble broke in sunder and behold something glittered underneath.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He desired to be buried in the churchyard of the minster so that ‘the sweet rain of heaven might fall upon his grave’.
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Margaret Gehier, who had suffered from coxalgia for seven-and-twenty years, whose hip was devoured by the disease, whose left knee was anchylosed, and who yet was suddenly able to fall upon her knees to thank the Blessed Virgin for healing her.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 1
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They don't want the great ‘eyes of the world’ to fall upon us and find anything too freaky or shameful.
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Idleness is the greatest curse that can fall upon man, for vice and crime follow in its train.
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Now as cockal bones do not take up as much room when they fall upon one end as when they fall flat, so every one of us at the beginning sitting broadwise, and with a full face to the table, afterwards changes the figure, and turns his depth, not his breadth, to the board.
Essays and Miscellanies
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Mackshane, must now fall upon his shoulders, grew desperate at the prospect, and, though I never heard him swear before, imprecated dreadful curses on the heads of his oppressors, declaring that he would rather quit life altogether than be much longer under the power of such barbarians.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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And surmounting a higher ledge beyond this upthrust a huge dome of dull gold, Cyclopean, striking eyes and mind with something unhumanly alien, baffling; sending the mind groping, as though across the deserts of space, from some far-flung star, should fall upon us linked sounds, coherent certainly, meaningful surely, vaguely familiar — yet never to be translated into any symbol or thought of our own particular planet.
The Moon Pool
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But, given that it does not seem to be true that terrible terminal illnesses more commonly fall upon those in bad spiritual health than upon those of good character, let alone that they fall only upon the former, this ˜spiritual chemotherapy™ view seems quite hopeless.
The Problem of Evil
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The patella is a great defence to the front of the knee-joint, and distributes upon a large and tolerably even surface, during kneeling, the pressure which would otherwise fall upon the prominent ridges of the condyles; it also affords leverage to the Quadriceps femoris.
III. Syndesmology. 7b. The Knee-joint
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The foremost burier carried a lantern, but he held it so low that its light did not fall upon his burden.
Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
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When electric waves fall upon this coherer, the mercury coheres to the carbon blocks, and thus forms a bridge for the battery current.
Marvels of Modern Science
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When a bird trying to fly upwards is made to fall upon the earth snare, it is a plain proof that the snare is there; so, Israel, now that thou art falling, infer thence, that it is in the snare of the divine judgment that thou art entangled [Ludovicus De Dieu]. shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing -- The bird-catcher does not remove his snare off the ground till he has caught some prey; so God will not withdraw the Assyrians, &c., the instruments of punishment, until they have had the success against you which God gives them.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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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
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If a minister was naughty, there was this sword that they used to fall upon and withdraw to this place called the backbenches where they lamented the fact they blew their chance in the government.
Archive 2008-01-01
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Thereupon the good dyer staggered by the paternal majesty of cuckoldom, and perhaps also by the fire of his wife's eyes, let the sword fall upon the foot of the hunchback, who had followed him, and thus killed him.
Droll Stories — Volume 1
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After several of the local townsfolk turn up dead, all eyes fall upon this disturbed and destructive kid.
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So we see the heathen poets, when they fall upon a libertine passion, do still expostulate with laws and moralities, as if they were opposite and malignant to nature: Et quod natura remittit, invida jura negant.
The Advancement of Learning
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Fall upon the Ogre and hew him in hunks with your scymitars!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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And surmounting a higher ledge beyond this upthrust a huge dome of dull gold, Cyclopean, striking eyes and mind with something unhumanly alien, baffling; sending the mind groping, as though across the deserts of space, from some far-flung star, should fall upon us linked sounds, coherent certainly, meaningful surely, vaguely familiar -- yet never to be translated into any symbol or thought of our own particular planet.
The Moon Pool
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She was rattling on without affording me the slightest opportunity to slip in a word explanatory, when her glance chanced to fall upon some one who was approaching us through the throng.
My Lady of the North
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Thousands of tons of spray radioactivate the surfaces they fall upon to a dangerous degree, for an unknown length of time.
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I did kick against an upjutting rock here, and fall upon a great and unseen boulder there, and so was shaken very quickly to a sound knowledge that I trode the hard and actual earth; and had no true dealings with unreal matters.
The Night Land
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Protesters find that their objections fall upon deaf ears; their reasons belittled and their sheer weight of numbers ignored.
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You will find it very interesting to make the first of Newton's experiments yourself, and some day perhaps you will hear what wonderful things about the sun and the stars are being learnt in our own time by means of the spectroscope, which is an instrument having a fine slit through which the ray is passed before it is allowed to fall upon the prism.
Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation
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It well deserves its name ossifrage, bone breaker, for "not only does he push kids and lambs and even men off the rocks, but he takes the bones of animals that other birds of prey have denuded of the flesh high up into the air and lets them fall upon a stone in order to crack them and render them more digestible even for his enormous powers of deglutition.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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But this is the way of the world, that when a man or woman sings more tunably than his fellows, those about the fire fall upon him, pell-mell, for reason of their envy.
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
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They'll likely turn to outlawry now and fall upon pilgrims such as you.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
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Then, as the miners left, the few "cockatoo" settlers followed them, or shifted in nearer to the town on the sea-coast with their horse and bullock teams, and an ominous silence began to fall upon the Flat when the tinkle of the cattle bells no longer was heard among the dark fringe of sighing she-oaks bordering the creek.
"Chinkie's Flat" 1904
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I shall beard him in his gullet, and, while he lingeringly chokes to death over my unpalatableness and general spinefulness, do you, fair damsels, flee to the mountains lest the valleys fall upon you.
CHAPTER III
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The sunlight does not fall upon it, and even dew and evening coolness scarcely reach it; but yet there is not a breath of air or a ray of sunshine, nor a drop of moisture to which it is responsive, and which does not stir all its germinant forces.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
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His extreme abhorrence of heresy makes him immediately fall upon that of the Docætæ, against which he arms the faithful, by clearly demonstrating that Christ was truly made man, died, and rose again: in which his terms admirably express his most humble and affectionate devotion to our divine Redeemer, under these great mysteries of love.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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The essential parts of a spectroscope are the slit -- an opening perhaps 1/100th of an inch wide and 1/10th of an inch long -- to admit the light properly; a lens to render the light rays parallel before they fall upon the prism or grating; a prism or grating; a lens to receive the rays after they have been dispersed by the prism or grating and to form an image of the spectrum a short distance in front of the eye, where the eye will see the spectrum or a sensitive dry-plate will photograph it.
The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915
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From the atmosphere, water molecules fall upon the Earth's surface as rain, snow, hail and sleet.
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So as it is not possible but this quality of knowledge must fall under popular contempt, the people being apt to contemn truths upon occasion of controversies and altercations, and to think they are all out of their way which never meet; and when they see such digladiation about subtleties, and matters of no use or moment, they easily fall upon that judgment of Dionysius of Syracusa, Verba ista sunt senum otiosorum.
The Advancement of Learning
