Sentence examples for be thrown upon from inspiring English sources

If so, the risk should not fairly be thrown upon the promisor". Williston, Contracts (Rev. ed.) § 1931 19388).

I recommend a cracking book I received at Christmas on this art, Hand shadows to be thrown upon a wall, a Ronseal slither of a title written by a chap called Henry Bursill in 1860 to entertain his kids.

With the exception of the 1891 discovery in Java, all human fossil fragments have been discovered in continental Europe and England, "Nevertheless, leading scientists believe Asia was the early home of the human race and that whatever light may be thrown upon the origin of man will come from the great Central Asian plateau".

The so‑called μάνης was placed upon a pillar similar to a candelabrum, and the dish hanging over it must, by means of the wine projected from the goblet, be thrown upon it, and thence fall into a basin filled with water, which from this fall gave forth a sound; and he who produced the strongest was the victor, and received prizes, consisting of eggs, cakes, and sweetmeats.

The deal was thrown upon us".

At the lonely rectory in Somersby the children were thrown upon their own resources.

Their built-in glow is so intense that it can match whatever electric wattage is thrown upon them.

Hence it may naturally be supposed that the risk of a man's conduct is thrown upon him as the result of some moral short-coming.

Much of the financial burden of providing for the starving Irish peasantry was thrown upon the Irish landowners themselves (through local poor relief) and British absentee landowners.

"To estimate the sad state of a slave child, you must look at it as a hopeless human being thrown upon the world without its natural guardians," he wrote.

The land has given employment to no portion of the increase of the population: the whole additional six millions of our people, since 1821, have been thrown upon other employments.