Sentence examples for blown upon from inspiring English sources

Water may be poured, sprinkled, thrown, or blown upon a polluted person or object.

The name Baku is possibly a contraction of the Persian bad kube ("blown upon by mountain winds").

Sought for much after that, it will be found Either to have gone groping underground (And taken with it all the Hyla breed That shouted in the mist a month ago, Like ghost of sleigh bells in a ghost of snow) — Or flourished and come up in jewelweed, Weak foliage that is blown upon and bent, Even against the way its waters went.

Legendary scribe Bernard Darwin wrote:   ""Hoylake, blown upon by mighty winds, breeder of mighty champions".

But his famous line rang as true on this blustery evening as it had half a century before: "Hoylake, blown upon by mighty winds, breeder of mighty champions".  .

And when they came to the bottom of the winding stairs, and the night air from the river blew upon their faces, the jailer trod upon his torch and put it out.

They grew among the mossy stones about and about them; some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness; and the rest tossed and reeled and danced, and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake; they looked so gay, ever glancing, ever changing.

They grew about the mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake.

It is, however, an official biography, and at every page the heavy breath of a most protective family can be felt blowing upon Miss Morgan's neck as she writes, keeping her to a plethora of facts which sink the book like a tombstone.

Perhaps the younger ones are sadder, because at least my peers may have some nostalgic memory of the long-cold embers they're kneeling to blow upon, whereas the kids who have to make do with things like the [Broadway] Beatlemania show are being sold a bill of goods... Did you watch the TV specials on Tuesday night?

The sea state of the ocean is determined by the size of these waves, which on the open ocean depends upon the wind speed and the fetch, the distance over which the wind blows upon the water.