Sentence examples for fastened upon from inspiring English sources

The Conservative fastened upon the alleged statement by Harold Laski, that his party would use violence, if necessary.

Assessing the war itself, Howe later wrote that "its cruel fangs fastened upon the very heart of Boston and took from us our best and bravest".

One of them tells of her horror, "... each moment he came near me, and that I could see his eye fastened upon me my veins ran ice.

Who can write the history of a battle whose eyes are immovably fastened upon a central figure of transcendingly absorbing interest -- the dead body of an oldest born, crushed by a shell in a position where a battery should never have been sent, and abandoned to death in a building where surgeons dared not to stay?... My pen is heavy.

It was this last oddity that the populace of Copenhagen fastened upon as the subject of gibes and taunts, making Kierkegaard's cherished daily perambulations in the streets a torment; he spoke of "that slow death, being trampled to death by a flock of geese".

Supposedly, what distinguished Web 2.0 from Web 1.0 was user control, and user collaboration, with the network serving as a "platform," but that wasn't really a new idea: Krizelman and Paternot had fastened upon it years earlier, as had the founders of GeoCities and other Web-hosting ventures.

And to this day the failure of America's media to fasten upon Hitler's mad atrocities stirs the conscience of succeeding generations of reporters and editors.

The New Yorker, December 5 , 1925P. 4 Not only Bret Harte's Heathen Chinee who contributed to fastening upon poker its enviable reputation.

After the class finishes its investigation, students should discuss the following questions: And to this day the failure of America's media to fasten upon Hitler's mad atrocities stirs the conscience of succeeding generations of reporters and editors.

A Civil War veteran described nostalgia's effects in 1866, noting how it "fastens upon the breast of its prey, and sucks, vampyre-like, the breath of his nostrils.

Even as young Max ogles the ineffable Alice, her attention fastens upon his one and only friend, Hughie, faithful Hughie, who has played with the senescent little freak as if he were a normal boy, and who keeps their friendship through fifty eventful years, while he himself, beneath the surface life of a respectable married lawyer... Never mind.