How To Use Set upon In A Sentence
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_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.
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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?
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He was set upon by a vicious dog.
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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
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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
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Shona is set upon in the ginnel.
The Sun
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`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
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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
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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…
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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
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But eyewitnesses had earlier told the court how the youth had set upon Mr Worrell, kneeing him in the face before deliberately stabbing him in the chest.
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Chinese population has depressed the market and driven all such things out - hence the best valuation I can now set upon them is the appraisement value made by the French [gap word illegible] with a view to taxation.
Letter from Young John Allen to Dr Lehon,1868?
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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: and nets of checkerwork, and wreaths of chainwork, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
1 Kings 7.
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Shortly after the three of us set upon his dorm room to dismantle it, a small but sharp twinge of pain registered just under my left kneecap.
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On 22 March 235, in a repeat of the fate of Elagabalus and Soaemias, twenty-seven-year-old Alexander and his mother, Julia Mamaea, were set upon by soldiers under the command of an officer named Maximinus Thrax.
Caesars’ Wives
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Some plaied at the football as boldlie there, as if it had been on the drie land; divers of the Court, being then at Westminster shot dailie at prickes set upon the Thames, and tradition says, Queen Elizabeth herself walked upon the ise.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
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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: and nets of checkerwork, and wreaths of chainwork, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
1 Kings 7.
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Upon Tuesday, November 13th, 1666, Corporal George Deanes and three other soldiers set upon an old man in the clachan of Dalry and demanded the payment of his fines.
Lay Morals
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A silver band with pale blue jewels encrusted within was set upon his head.
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He then arranges the veil, without removing it from the chalice, in the same way that a chalice is set upon the altar for the celebration of Mass: another clear sign of the connection between the Mass and the death of Christ upon the Cross.
Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.2 - Good Friday, The Adoration of the Cross and the Rite of the Presanctified
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A dozen men armed with clubs set upon a corporal in the colonial militia when he tried to execute a sentence on a man delinquent in his duty.
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He was set upon by a vicious dog.
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-- He is not of the brotherhood of Saint Mary's -- at least he has not the buist [Footnote: _Buist_ -- The brand, or mark, set upon sheep or cattle, by their owners.] of these black cattle.
The Monastery
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By the train which bore me away from Springville I went only far enough to put me safely beyond the possibility of stumbling upon any of the places where I had hitherto sought work; though as to that, I had little hope of escaping the relentless blacklister who had been set upon me.
Branded
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Budd innocently exalts, even as he is shanghaied and set upon a path that leads to the yardarm.
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This summer parfait, with frozen blueberry and apricot compote, based with a mascarpone ice cream and set upon a meringue… was amazing.
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Similarly, should your crab bake be set upon by agents of a foreign government, these crackers would make a handy boomerang at some range.
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The Pantisocratic scheme was essentially based at its outset upon a union of kindred souls, for it was clearly necessary of course that each male member of the little community to be founded on the banks of the Susquehanna should take with him a wife.
English Men of Letters: Coleridge
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The swarming lampreys consume not only dead or sickly fish but set upon otherwise healthy ones.
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His head was cut off by two ensigns in Alva's service, who received the price which had been set upon it of two thousand caroli.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 19: 1572-73
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When he and his brothers arrived at Heathrow in 1972 they were set upon by maenadic teenyboppers, who tore clumps of hair from Jermaine's scalp, robbed Michael of a shoe and almost choked him by tugging the opposite ends of his scarf.)
Culture | guardian.co.uk
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In a confused situation, the demonstrators also apparently set upon army units dispatched to the radio station to arrest the mutineers.
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The tramway was a cable which stretched from a wooden tower set upon a stone pillar jutting from the sea to a similar tower built upon the land.
Triple Spies
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And they will the sooner set upon you, by reason of your comelinesse and audacity, in that you are not afeared at any time to walke in the streets.
The Golden Asse
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One man from a group of five set upon his three victims, leaving one in need of hospital treatment and another with a bruised and bloodshot eye.
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Budd innocently exalts, even as he is shanghaied and set upon a path that leads to the yardarm.
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Tiwa on their old range to Tusayan, for they were set upon by Keres and Jemez warriors on the plea that they received back the Spaniards.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744
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Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the valuations of special science have set upon it.
Les Miserables
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His eyes set upon a particular set, with round lenses and wire rims.
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My own suggestion would be just such an ontbijtke with oysters, an assortment of shells, a lemon, Texel cheese, perhaps some white grapes, a roemer goblet, a pitcher, pewter dishes, all set upon a table covered with a Turkey rug.
The Stream and The Torrent
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Her eyes were set upon the sight outside, it had snowed the other night and the street was coated in pure white snow, expect for the roadway which was compiled of a grey sludge due to the constant stream of traffic.
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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
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But he adds that also in the ecclesial environment dissonances emerged: At times - he ends with a pinch of bitterness - one has the impression that our society needs at least one group for which it does not reserve any tolerance; which one can unperturbedly set upon with hatred.
Advance Report on the Papal Letter about the Lifting of the SSPX Excommunications II
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What they will do is read out a death sentence, intone a chant, then set upon the hostage from all sides.
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The distraught 15-year-old says she was forced to drink large quantities of alcohol before being set upon.
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It occurs as marble, limestone; calcspar, dogtooth spar, nail head spar, stalactites, and a number of other forms, which are only valuable when occurring in perfect crystals or uniquely set upon the rock holding it.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
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She was immediately set upon by his faithful setter, who sank fangs deep into the vampire's throat and almost severed her head from her body.
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In the southern city of Assiut, eyewitnesses said riot police set upon some 100 activists staging an anti-government protest Wednesday, beating them up with batons and arresting nearly half of them.
Egypt Protests: Photos Of The Clashes
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The whole tableau is set upon a rococo footed platter, white with gold wave trim, that recalls the mirrored trays of mid 20th-century suburban dresser sets.
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The first Puritan settlers had crossed the ocean to found their city set upon a hill, an example to other nations, a chosen people, the grain that God had sifted from a whole nation to plant in the empty continent.
What is Canada?
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It says something about the ultimately comic core of "The Finkler Question" that Truslove, in a kind of bookend to his mugging, finds himself late in the novel set upon by a group of pro-Palestinian Jewish demonstrators outside a Holocaust museum.
A Comedy of Anti- and Philo-Semitism Takes a Prize
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The diorite block was so fragile that to keep it from chipping or cracking during installation it had to be set upon several blocks of ice and nudged gently into its foundation as the ice melted away.
Colossus
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An archway on the western side of the pool opens on the causeway, bordered with balustrades of fretted marble, and, at close intervals there are standard lamps, their great lanterns set upon the marble columns.
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And have you purpose to set upon me here as in an emboscata or place of vantage?
The Monastery
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In the southern city of Assiut, witnesses said riot police set upon some 100 activists, beating them with batons and arresting nearly half of them.
Egypt's protests continue, ominous for regime
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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
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As he left the theatre, the singer was set upon by fans desperate for autographs.
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Then said Epistemon to Pantagruel: The denomination of these two colonels of yours, Maul-chitterling and Cut-pudding, promiseth us assurance, success, and victory, if those Chitterlings should chance to set upon us.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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As he left the theatre, the singer was set upon by fans desperate for autographs.
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Turning a corner, he entered a room where several vampires were seated around a large wooden table with identical parchments set upon the tables for them to inspect.
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The way is hard and long, but I feel that we have been set upon the right road towards that hitherto unreachable Nirvana.
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The high value he set upon the Rev.P. Taggart (whom he used to call 'the P.triarch of the Border'), and on the hard-worked Highland priests, is well remembered.
Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2
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Study, exercise, housework, and many wholesome pleasures kept her a happy, hearty creature, yearly growing in womanly graces, yet always preserving the innocent freshness girls lose so soon when too early set upon the world's stage and given a part to play.
Rose in Bloom
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Verily, these people are set upon pushing the noise boat out over the horizon until it arrives ... somewhere.
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The subject was set upon firm foundations around 1930 by Emmy Noether and van der Waerden using an abstract algebraic approach.
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The way is hard and long, but I feel that we have been set upon the right road towards that hitherto unreachable Nirvana.
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He was set upon by a vicious dog.
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But he had his own path to ruination he was set upon, and my being around did nothing to deter him.
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In a confused situation, the demonstrators also apparently set upon army units dispatched to the radio station to arrest the mutineers.
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On the surface, it is both an adventure story set upon the high seas and a compendium of information about whales and the whaling industry.
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bray," and that reminded me of a story, and instead of having my thoughts and my heart set upon his beautiful prayer as I should have
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
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Mr Hoon and Tony Blair are set upon signing up to President Bush's missile defence system, even though the technology is unproven and the costs fantastic.
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They were almost immediately set upon by the Turks, nor did the Byzantines come to their aid.
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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 tomcat, which miauled and grinned and spat.
Tehran Winter
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And have you purpose to set upon me here as in an emboscata or place of vantage?”
The Monastery
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George was set upon as heretic, denounced as a traitor and his government contract for a school history book mysteriously cancelled without explanation.
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It wasn't long before an even greater calamity than sea sickness set upon them.
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He took them and, shutting the door of the closet upon Abu Sir, fared forth without telling any; and the doorkeeper was then at market and thus saw him not go out.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Set upon stony foundations, the house was to be wooden; considered a temporary structure in Turkey, it was exempt from planning consent.
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In 1455 he was returning from a meeting at Doncaster, possibly with the Knights Templars or Grey Friars, when he was set upon by a ravenous wild cat.
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We were set upon by about twelve youths and I was kicked unconscious.
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The suggestion was immediately set upon by conservatives who argued it was all exaggerated.
