Sentence examples for rides upon from inspiring English sources

"We do not ride upon the railroad; it rides upon us," Thoreau wrote from Walden Pond.

The inspiration for the book's title comes from a Henry David Thoreau quotation: "We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us".

It's an existence that rides upon a figurative highway of steel – steel appliances, steel cutlery and tools and, most important to the US economy, steel-bodied automobiles.

A century earlier, Thoreau understood with remarkable clarity that railroads — the embodiment of 19th-century technology — also concealed an unseen menace: "We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us".

He had a bit of Melville in him (the sailor) and some of Thoreau ("We do not ride on the railroad," Thoreau wrote from Walden. "It rides upon us").

Janet Turner Llanon, Ceredigion John Inverdale seems to mistake himself for a celebrity, without realising that his achievements are minimal compared with those whose trains and coat tails he rides upon.

And riding upon the breakers came a froth of laughter.

Rats riding upon the backs of other rats gallop up and down our street at night.

They are for cyclists to ride upon At the risk of pedestrian life and limb.

The movie's action, and Sarah's persona, ride upon a cushion of money.

Or maybe the horse was thought to be sufficiently dozy and gentle for a child to ride upon.