The OED finds a reference in Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring, 1855: " 'A soldier, Prince, must needs obey his orders: mine are... to seize wherever I should light upon him.' 'First catch your hare!' exclaimed his Royal Highness".
What connexion can there be between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step?
A bright light shines upon him, a pattern like something from a UFO out of Close Encounters.
Kevin Newbury, the director of the Prototype production, had Blalock lie on his back as overhead lights descended upon him, stopping within inches of his face.
The coffin was deposited in the church and covered with a black pall, and the Office of the Dead was recited or sung, with the constant repetition of the petition: "Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him".
He is like a man who closes his eyes on a windy day, and lets the light rain fall upon him.
The oft-lighted-upon solution is the unlikely collaboration.
Castro predictably temporizes, but Penn is relentless, lighting upon the brilliant rebuttal that a country with just one great leader per epoch can't be entirely democratic.
Nichols is a laureate of the heartland, staying away from cities, sticking to back roads, and lighting upon unregarded folk with little money to spare.
This, he tells God, is what he has got to work with; he is reliant upon him for light and for height.
The poster establishes this idea well, the figure suddenly seeming not just still but tense, perhaps ready to strike, as soon as one's eye lights upon the skeleton below him.
