How To Use set upon In A Sentence
- _Item_, when we shall see a convenient time to fight with the enemies our vanward shall make with their vanward if they have any; and if they be in one company, our vanward, taking the advantage of the wind, shall set upon their foremost rank, bringing them out of order; and our vice-admiral shall seek to board their vice-admiral, and every captain shall choose his equal as near as he may. Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX.
- Could not Paul have experienced, particularly in the diaspora, a Judaism so set upon maintaining its boundary markers, and so proud of them, that the markers became ends in themselves?
- He was set upon by a vicious dog.
- Then the scorpion changed to a vulture and the serpent became an eagle which set upon the vulture, and hunted him for an hour's time, till he became a black tom cat, which miauled and grinned and spat. Arabian nights. English
- She was also alleged to have set upon him over an email she had found in which he offered to take a female colleague for a drink. The Sun
- Shona is set upon in the ginnel. The Sun
- `Since that day, I have not worked, and I have more than once been set upon by hired bullies in narrow lanes. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
- I became one of these, until Chong Mong-ju sought me out, and I was beaten and planked and set upon the highway. Chapter 15
- Being of an inventive turn of mind, Dr. Abrams set upon the task of developing an apparatus that would sort out these hypothetical vibratory rates and record them separately…
- And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits: Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
