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These domestic Fairies _kept their marriages upon the same day_ as the Human Beings; _their children were born upon the same day_; and _upon the same day they wailed for their dead. ❋ Various (N/A)

For it is of the nature of love when confronted by two alternatives one of which lays the stress upon personal advantage and the other _upon love itself_ apart from any personal advantage, whether one's own or another's, to choose, as the assumption upon which it shall live, the latter of these two alternatives. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)

“I think it depends upon yourself, ” said Siward, “upon your capacity for being, or for making people believe you to be exactly what they require. ❋ Unknown (1899)

I pass one or two points I have, because my time will very soon expire; but I must be allowed to say that Judge Douglas recurs again, as he did upon one or two other occasions, to the enormity of Lincoln, —an insignificant individual like Lincoln, —upon his ipse dixit charging a conspiracy upon a large number of members of Congress, the Supreme Court, and two Presidents, to nationalize slavery. ❋ Unknown (1897)

Its burden rests, not upon the unfortunate individual who has become tuberculous, but _upon the community_ which, by its ignorance, its selfishness, and its greed, has done much to make him so. ❋ Woods Hutchinson (1896)

In the book of Daniel the hand that traces the warning words upon the walls of Belshazzar's palace traces them "_upon the plaster of the wall_" (DANIEL v. 5). ❋ Georges Perrot (1873)

You must either build upon Christ or fall over Him; you must either build _upon_ Christ, or be crushed to powder _under_ Him. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

The prayer of the Psalmist that this beauty may be _upon_ us conceives of it as given to us from above and as coming floating down from heaven, like that white Dove that fell upon Christ's head, fair and meek, gentle and lovely, and resting on our anointed heads, like a diadem and an aureole of glory. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

Our Lord, however, does not merely bid us not to lay up treasure upon earth; for if he had said no more, this his commandment might be abused, and persons might find in it an encouragement for their extravagant habits, for their love of pleasure, for their habit of spending everything they have, or can obtain, _upon themselves_. ❋ George M��ller (1851)

Wishing, therefore, Lorenzo speedily to purchase a small bronze figure of him, from the celebrated large one at Rotterdam, and to place the same upon a copy of his first edition of the _Greek Testament_ printed _upon vellum_, [301] by way of ❋ Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1811)

Cleary upon the hustings at Westminster was a _forgery_; and not only sending me a copy of the New York paper, wherein he had declared this letter to be a forgery, but _authorizing_ ME, nay, _urging_ ME to pronounce it to be a forgery, which, _upon the faith of his word_, I did, at a meeting at the Crown and Anchor, where Cleary produced the letter. ❋ Henry Hunt (1804)

The district of Ongole produced annually, upon a medium of many years, 90,000 pagodas; but Lord Macartney, _upon receiving a sum of money from Ramchundry_ [73] let it out to him, in ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)

II. vii.125 (271,1) [And take upon command what help we have] It seems necessary to read, _then take upon_ demand _what help_, &c. that is, ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

V. iv.51 (333,7) [found the quarrel was upon the seventh cause] So all the copies; but it is apparent from the sequel that we must read, _the quarrel was_ not _upon the seventh cause_. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

_Resolved_, "That the President be authorized to afford Mr. Morse such facilities as may be requisite to give his invention a proper trial upon the Washington road, provided in his opinion and in that of the engineer it can be done without injury to the road and without embarrassment to the operations of the company, and provided Mr. Morse will concede to the company the use of the telegraph upon the road without expense, and reserving to the company the right of discontinuing the use if, _upon experiment_, it should prove _in any manner injurious_." ❋ Various (N/A)

The chief gave me very plainly to understand that the mountaineers, being dependent upon others for bread and gunpowder (the two great necessaries of martial life), could not long hold out against a power which occupied the plains and commanded the sea; but he also assured me, and that very significantly, that if this source of weakness were provided against, _the mountaineers were to be depended upon_; he told me that in ten or fifteen days the chiefs could bring together some fifty thousand fighting men. ❋ Alexander William Kinglake (1850)

[Illustration: _They threw their garments upon the ground for Jesus to ride upon_] "Hosanna to the son of David! ❋ Logan [Editor] Marshall (N/A)

"This coming together to-night may justify the remark that satire upon the proverbial caution of candidates in expressing an opinion _upon any subject_ was perhaps never better illustrated than in the incident now to be related. ❋ Unknown (1874)

The priest was required to dip his right finger in the oil that was in his left hand and to put it upon the tip of the right ear, upon the thumb of the right hand, and upon the great toe of the right foot of him that was to be cleansed, the oil "_upon {89} the blood of the trespass-offering_" (Lev. ❋ Unknown (1865)

"You needn't bother with that," was his tart response like the panda, he can be less cuddly than he looks when a Daily Telegraph interviewer thrust the label upon him a few years ago. ❋ Matthew Norman (2011)