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Sentence Examples In the trenches during the First World War, two foot-soldiers come upon the unconscious figure of an officer. I personally have not come upon chauvinistic attitudes on the part of men I have trained with. Montezuma placed his sacred fire in the estufa, and warned his people that death would come upon them if they allowed it to go out. They come upon the villagers from the town being taunted by donkey braying and find them readying themselves for battle. The building itself was largely destroyed, but by chance I had come upon the entry way into the subway line on my first tour through the city. As thoughts turn to food, we come upon the market stalls, where my kebab-shop heaven is suddenly made manifest. If they did, they, too, would die, and God's wrath would come upon the whole congregation. My friend and I have just come upon a picturesque farmhouse on a rolling prairie. He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him. It is so rare in this age of reposts and blog recycling to come upon something truly new and so helpfully detailed in its description. I do need to know what things look like in the rare chance that I ever come upon them. As I pushed through the last strings of a job lot of whalebone corsets, I was finally able to come upon the books. After a few minutes of puzzled winds and twists and turns and curses muttered under my breath, I come upon the bed. The Marines just happened to come upon them an hour after the soldiers were ambushed. So, I hop back into the car, travel about half a mind up the road, and come upon the tail end of the most amazing sunset I've seen in ages. Hard times have come upon us, the loss of one leader is immeasurable but two is measureless. I had at last come upon his mythic littoral, with its tide mill and waters which flowed both ways. This will be the way to protect yourself from the destruction that will come upon this world. It's a solution vertebrates didn't come upon, humans didn't come upon, but insects did. On rare occasions, they eat snails, insects, or young birds that they come upon by accident. Show More Sentences You will be saved from all your sins, gain the righteousness of God, and have the Holy Spirit come upon you. We see the breaks in the grass where they left the road, and soon come upon a bivouac area that was clearly used the previous night. The big thrill in their job apparently is to come upon a big convoy as they carry out a patrol far over the Atlantic. Does it not mean making preparation to meet the things that come upon us? We have wept that God may show his beneficence his mercy and that his peace may come upon the people of Pakistan. You even have it if the remnant of your unfinished cup of tea has been accidentally thrown away by someone else, who's come upon it and thought it unwanted, of no account. About half-way back to Boston I slowed down even further to go round a blind bend in the road, to come upon a police car and a mobile speed camera. Yet when they give their speeches, it is as if they have come upon this on their own and they have done something great. It is essentially a family company that has come upon hard times. Help us not to be sorrowful for any event that may come upon us in our life, nor to deny Your blessings and favors. Make a note of anything you come upon in a book or other publication that might be useful in some future situation. The two witnesses will respond by calling for more plagues to come upon unrepentant mankind. There will come a time when much judgment will come upon the house of God for their disobedience to Me, says the Lord. They are some of the Chinese people that you see in such places, when you happen to come upon one, lone Chinese restaurant. Rose went through the door, only to come upon a scene out of an especially hellacious sample sale. Research is not an aimless digging into the unknown at random in the hope that you will come upon something interesting or useful. These vials are the seven last plagues that will come upon those who are destroying the earth. You will eventually come upon a cybercafe where, for a few francs, you can download a map or send an email for help. Our Mr. Terwilleger has come upon solution. So, once more, when we search below the negations and repudiations of the frontier we come upon a germinal positivism and affirmativism. Show More Sentences They began to come upon from time to time small cairns of rock by the roadside. They were signs in gypsy language, lost patterans. Let us know what to do if we come upon a friend in need of help. Godliness will come upon the nations when they see the children of God demonstrate the power of God and act under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Although an inuksuk is often perceived as an art form, it was originally envisioned as a valuable communication tool used by nomadic tribes to tell a story or to provide practical information to those who come upon it. While sauntering through the enchanted forest, you can pay a visit to the courageous Lion, king of the beasts, but be careful later as you come upon the fragile realm of the China Princess. Sailing a south-easterly course from mainland Greece the avid sailor will come upon the Dodecanese islands, like emeralds glinting in the sun, close to the Turkish coast. I can just open it randomly, and any line I come upon makes me laugh. Often you come upon unexpected but illuminating juxtapositions of objects. No one ever wants to see job losses in the country, but the fact is that when times come upon us where we need to re-tool, adjust and equip ourselves for the newer economy, adjustments will take place. The policies we adopt for the development of our water will have a profound effect in the years to come upon our domestic, agricultural, and industrial economy. The group then began looking at purchasing smaller facilities in Manitoba but as they pursued their options, one proposal they never thought of has come upon them and is now their primary focus. There were so many layers and layers of information that came out through this process that we would never, ever have come upon if we had done it in a traditional kind of way. All these things and more have come upon us and we know why it is so. The sad situation that has come upon us for the medical assistance shows that two police officers from two different police departments serve and protect the same way facing any kind of call. Isaiah warns that disaster will come upon Judah because of its sin. Chances are that both of them can come upon the person. And so when Cassandra foretold the evils that were to come upon Troy, even her own people would not credit her words. He could sleep at call, and it would come upon him and leave him in the middle of his work. Many if not most believe the Portuguese, en route to Brazil, were the first Europeans to come upon the island. And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. Show More Sentences Thus when archaeologists come upon objects of obsidian or chert, copper or gold, they have almost unparalleled opportunities to interpret ancient pathways of trade. As much as they were will come upon them, possibly far more. Examples from Classical Literature She wanted to catch sweet grass alone and yet as if she had come upon her by accident. They wandered about some more, listened for a short time to the trillings of a robustious prima donna come upon evil days. In the account of this celebrated Arabian amorist, we come upon a very pretty story. Here we come upon the border of those changes which are ascribable to use and disuse. Two prosaic Persons come upon a little picture, by Mr. Swan, of a boy lying on a rock, piping to fishes. For the seraphic frenzy had now come upon the mage in good earnest, and all the Thought-reader burned in his dusky eyes. The beast had careered across a field, leapt a hedge and come upon its victim suddenly. If we were to disarm, as these ladies advise, war would come upon us with consternate suddenness. Occasionally, by the side of a copse, we may come upon a great bed of the male fern, which frequently keeps green all the winter. It had come upon him so unawares that he felt he had not kept it out of his voice. Following the trail, he rode through the cedars to come upon the dry hole where the pool had once been. It come upon me sudden and strong as a pile driver, and my boy writ it down. The course was south-southeast sailing over against the wind, in order to come upon the Doggerbank. My dear old friend, it's when you come upon women of that kind you have a sickener. Such a day does not often come upon the river, but if it does, the deep channel of the Isisi focuses all the joy of it. The grotesqueness of war had come upon him then, as he had built up the tower with Robin. The Republic will only appear to the on-looker to have come upon the scene as a means, not as an end. It come upon me sudden and strong as a pile-driver, and my boy writ it down. Enraged both at himself and the pardoner, he would gladly have strangled the fellow, had he but come upon him at that instant. To come upon a settlement upon the Amazons is like landfall at sea. Show More Sentences Is it because of me that your weakness and unfaith have come upon you? Despondency had come upon her there in the wakeful night, and had never lifted. Knowest thou, Mopo, that sorrow has come upon thy house while thou wast about my business. Here we come upon the issue between materialism and immaterialism. For sixteen days they had been tracking the Crows about the mountains, but had not yet come upon them. What other changes have come upon me, besides the changes in my growth and looks, and in the knowledge I have garnered all this while? So you're walking down the street in a major metropolitan city when you come upon a panhandler asking for change. In prowling around he had unexpectedly come upon the three men. Perhaps we may come upon it accidentally in the course of the play. This will come upon you when your heart is cankered with caste. The awful thought had come upon her that this ambassadress had come to her as a proxy with a proposal of marriage. Happily, the disillusioning fog had come upon us by degrees. They come upon us like some dire disaster in a time of festivity. Haven't any idea where one might come upon this Jolly Roger, have you? A listlessness had come upon me, and I obeyed the pointing finger. Of course the traveler should not come upon the land by way of Lomond. If he braved the matter out, death would unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and unforeseen manner. You're not in a state to be let come upon strange parishes 'ceptin as a Casual. Why had this come upon her, this cruel, numbing disgrace and sorrow? That she had come upon them so far from The witan was evidence of this. Show More Sentences I felt an awe come upon me, and Rebecca's countenance was troubled. She was afraid that the door would open and the boy come upon her. It was annoying to come upon that everlasting slovenliness in the farm work against which he had been striving with all his might for so many years. Already he knew who that one was, for his nostrils had told him as plainly as your eyes or mine tell us of the identity of an old friend whom we come upon in broad daylight. He felt as if an iron ring was being slowly tightened round his forehead, as if the disgrace with which he was threatened had already come upon him. In those days my experience of life at first hand was small, and it excited me to come upon an incident among people I knew of the same sort as I had read in books. A sense of the ridiculousness of his mission had come upon him. Now I felt like a beast in a trap, whose enemy would come upon him soon. Still, it came to pass that henceforward, and until she had long been dead, the Slaughterer loved her, and her alone, and that is a strange sickness to come upon a man. A hundred feet front and a hundred high is about the style, and you go up three flights of stairs before you begin to come upon signs of occupancy. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of come upon? Words that rhyme with come upon What is the past tense of come upon? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words come up against come up comets come true come to the point come to terms with comeuppance come-uppance come up short come up with come what may come with