How To Use Light upon In A Sentence
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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
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If in your bounds, ye chance to light Upon a fine, fat, fodgel wight,
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
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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
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The birds take liberties with the mannikin, foul creatures alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it.
Les Miserables
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Hopefully, Daniel would be able to cast some light upon her whereabouts when he returned from work.
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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
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The notes or fragments which we call Hilary's Apology throw light upon the latter fact.
NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
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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
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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
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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
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He has put a mortal slight upon me, by bumping me in the solemn service of Hele-an-to; apologizing with an insult; and then refusing to abide by the duello.
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I know that Elise has a conscience that will hold her fast to duty," said Benigna, but she did not speak hopefully: she spoke deliberately, however, thinking that these words _conscience_ and _duty_ might arrest the minister's attention, and that he would perhaps, by some means, throw light upon questions which were constantly becoming more perplexing to her.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
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I know that Elise has a conscience that will hold her fast to duty," said Benigna, but she did not speak hopefully: she spoke deliberately, however, thinking that these words _conscience_ and _duty_ might arrest the minister's attention, and that he would perhaps, by some means, throw light upon questions which were constantly becoming more perplexing to her.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
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Does not this cast a light upon the conceptive and receptive powers of the eye.
Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men
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Embers began burning in the east, casting light upon the land in the early winter hours.
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This perspective can shed a new light upon the concept of intertextuality itself.
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“I am the light”; and what multitudes of things He illumined I He threw light upon the character of God, upon the nature of man, upon the beauty of holiness, upon the abominableness of sin.
The Silver Lining: Messages of Hope and Cheer
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Can anybody cast light upon how this chair got broken?
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Tiny green "hoppers" -- odd creatures shaped something like the fancy frogs of children's story-books -- alight upon it after a spring, and pausing a second, with another toss themselves as high as the highest bennet (veritable elm-trees by comparison), to fall anywhere out of sight in the grass.
Nature Near London
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This could throw additional light upon the unconscious psychodynamic processes governing the perception and apperception, both sensory and extrasensory, of potentially threatening stimuli.
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A bright sun poured a flood crystal light upon a greensward.
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Her first task is defining ‘the conditions that allow artifacts, epigraphical documents, and literary texts to throw light upon one another in reciprocal fashion.’
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You are a blight upon the human race and a disgrace to your profession.
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In spite of the fact that in these days the personality of God is often regarded as a transient feature of religion, that type of belief which throws most light upon the religious experience is the _belief in persons_.
The Approach to Philosophy
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
Chatting With Thoreau About Twitter
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His face wore an absent expression, as of deep thought, and I became afraid that if his eyes did light upon me he would nevertheless not see me.
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But enough of illustrations: although these, multipliable to any amount, might bring, each in its own case, some specific tendency to throw light upon the path we mean to tread: it is wiser perhaps, as implying more confidence in the reader's intellectual powers, to leave other analogous cases to the suggestion of his own mind; also, not to vex him in every instance with the intrusive finger of an obvious application.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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I may call it _Lumen crepusculum_, the _Aurora_ of the Moone, or such a kinde of blushing light, that the Sunne causes when he is neere his rising, when he bestowes some small light upon the thicker vapours.
The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet
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The production of a work of art throws light upon the mystery of humanity.
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And I bless God who crafts light and creates darkness, who will radiate a new light upon Zion, whose light pours off you to illuminate my room.
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This city of sinners has been a blight upon the land for too long.
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I love to light upon such a one, especially after nightfall, as everything about a forge tells to most advantage at night; the hammer sounds more solemnly in the stillness; the glowing particles scattered by the strokes sparkle with more effect in the darkness, whilst the sooty visage of the sastramescro, half in shadow and half illumed by the red and partial blaze of the forge, looks more mysterious and strange.
Lavengro
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He played a searchlight upon the aeroplane.
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Meanwhile, I purpose to give a sketch of TIMROD'S life, which, though comparatively brief, and to an exceptional degree uneventful, is still of interest, as throwing much light upon the character of his verses, and the development of his genius.
The Poems of Henry Timrod.
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The captain counts it a light upon one of the headlands of the Jersey shore; and he orders the helmsman (she is sailing in the eye of an easy westerly breeze) to give her a couple of points more "northing"; and the yards and sheets are trimmed accordingly.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866
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Sparkling drops of dew were bright points of light upon her skin.
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She exclaimed in delight upon hearing the news.
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The soft grass they stood on was covered in sweet dew, the water gleaming and reflecting the light upon their faces.
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In the bathroom, clean the loo, sink and bath, in, out, up and over, as if the President herself might alight upon them at any time, and get rid of any limescale that will suggest hard water problems.
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A combination of these two theories will surely shed more light upon meaning construction of texts.
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It needed only that the seal of martyrdom upon such a life should cause his virtues to be transfigured before us in imperishable grandeur, and his name to be emblazoned with heaven's own light upon that topmost arch of fame, which shall stand when governments and nations fall.
Abraham Lincoln; His Life and Its Lessons
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Their eyes are built with not one but hundreds of lenses, each of which concentrates light upon a sensor.
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At the very first bars of the intensely passionate allegro, the beginning of the sonata, I felt that numbness, that chill and sweet terror of ecstasy, which instantaneously enwrap the soul when beauty bursts with sudden flight upon it.
The Jew and other stories
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It would sometimes take refuge in a bush, when the lark, not being a percher, would alight upon the ground beneath it.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
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But instead of waving a baton he turns a beam of rosy light upon any region that is running ahead of the rest, and a beam of blue light upon those who are behindhand.
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I should never have spoken love to you at all, or if I did, I should have told you of the blight upon it; but the sky and the trees and the hill were clothed that night in the beauty that wrapt my soul and I thought that God had forgotten and had shrived me in the same sacred light.
St. Cuthbert's
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Both were mighty queens in the underworld where they cast light upon the dead in their darkness.
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They are basically space-saving lamps that are designed to throw a comparatively shadow-free circle of light upon the ground.
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SIR JOHN: Shame, disappointment and disreputation light upon you all.
The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother
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It cast an unflattering light upon the skin, it made voices echo.
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In the first place you have the effect of light upon chlorophyl which is important; in the second place, the melted paraffin fills all interstices in which sap would collect and ferment.
Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919
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Nevertheless, this elucidation of the generic discontinuous change has shed light upon many optical phenomena where caustics and diffraction occur.
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Possibly the local train may have observed something which may throw some light upon the matter.
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The consecrated candle shed a yellowish light upon her face impearled with the sweat of her last struggle and death agony.
Komediantka. English
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The distorted features, the profusion of long, red hair, curling over a scared face, and the stalworth figure, shed some light upon the identity of the deceased.
An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
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She exclaimed in delight upon hearing the news.
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She exclaimed in delight upon hearing the news.
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Plastic scintillators, placed between the bricks, are needed to produce a flash of light upon absorption of an ionizing particle, specifically, neutrino.
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A white figure approached so slender as to be mistaken for a shimmer of light upon first glance.
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I was in the fear of my life that they should light upon mine own son Tam, for he knew no more than how to bait a line and guddle trout; but nevertheless he has done wonderfully well at the pack among the ignorant English, and is, (I deny it not to him) the staff of my declining years.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
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With Cornelius, in fact, it was nothing less than the joy which Dante apprehended in the blessed spirits of the perfect, the outward semblance of which, like a reflex of physical light upon human faces from "the land which is very far off," we may trace from Giotto onward to its consummation in the work of Raphael -- the serenity, the [53] durable cheerfulness, of those who have been indeed delivered from death, and of which the utmost degree of that famed "blitheness" of the Greeks had been but a transitory gleam, as in careless and wholly superficial youth.
Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2
