Sentence examples for sitting upon from inspiring English sources

For Shakespeare, it was the stone on which, in Henry VI, Part 2, the Kentish rebel Jack Cade sits in order to dispense laws – "And here, sitting upon London-stone, I charge and command, that, of the city's cost, the pissing-conduit run nothing but claret wine this first year of our reign".

And this despite sitting upon history's biggest free lunch in the form of oil wealth.

The nēsteia was the day of fasting, with the women sitting upon the ground.

"We paint from life," she says, "and you can't hold a smile for sitting upon sitting.

"If there's even one mistake, the whole thing spoils," she said, sitting upon an antique wooden chest.

Being mired in mundane domestic squabbles is mildly amusing to me now, ensconced in chaos, sitting upon a throne of possibly clean socks.

The route takes us past a grey brick building with blocked-up windows, sitting grimly upon an elegant street of antique shops and cafés.

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof".

One is not morbidly curious but the reader's expectation runs high and we await this death with sort of a vigil or sitting Shiva upon the moment of passing.

"He just wanted to go home, had to work the next day and did not feel it was right to have to give up his seat, a seat he was already sitting in upon the plane," Cummings, who took the new video, said in a Facebook post.

"A Palestinian Rosa Parks is needed to insist upon sitting on Jewish bus lines".