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How To Use light upon In A Sentence

• Now, seated at a table, an anglepoise lamp adjusted so that it shone its light directly over his shoulder, Rojas examined one of the remaining seals, tracing the lettering carved upon it and allowing the rubies and emeralds embedded in it to reflect red and green shards of light upon his skin. The Whisperers
• If in your bounds, ye chance to light Upon a fine, fat, fodgel wight, VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
• She does not repel him, but her bored and absent expression discourages any amorous action and withers the kisses at the very moment when they alight upon her flesh. The Choice of Life
• The birds take liberties with the mannikin, foul creatures alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. Les Miserables
• Hopefully, Daniel would be able to cast some light upon her whereabouts when he returned from work.
• I had in front of me some of the finest destructive agents you could wish to light upon -- carbon-monoxide, chlorine-trioxide, mercuric-oxide, conine, potassamide, potassium-carboxide, cyanogen -- when Edwards entered. The Beetle
• The notes or fragments which we call Hilary's Apology throw light upon the latter fact. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
• Even at that early period, before he mixed in the society of educated persons, there was a dash of speculativeness in his remarks, which gave a high degree of originality to his conversation; and he would sometimes, in a casual remark, throw a flash of light upon a subject, which called up a train of pregnant suggestions. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson
• This plan would have succeeded admirably had not the evil star under which I was born, been in the ascendant during that month, and cast its malign influences even into my "'umble" larder; for the rats had their dessert off my cheese, the bugs set up housekeeping in my cracker bag, and the apples like all worldly riches, took to themselves wings and flew away; whither no man could tell, though certain black imps might have thrown light upon the matter, had not the plaintiff in the case been loth to add another to the many trials of long-suffering. Hospital Sketches
• Harvest is an interesting concept that not only brings light upon the use ofunconventional, under-appreciatedmaterials, but reinforces a connection betweenthe interior and natural exterior world -a place we often forget to consider in our busy urban lives. Asif Kahn's Spectacular Furniture Made from Flowers | Inhabitat