Sentence examples for stones upon which from inspiring English sources

Greatly loved by the congregation in Exeter, he shone during his time as Acting Dean not only as a teacher and preacher but also as a leader, widening the vision of the Cathedral Council and College of Canons and thus laying the foundation stones upon which the present Dean has built.

To leave your mark does not mean you have to, metaphorically, erect huge stones upon which you can inscribe your name, knowing it will stand for thousands of years.

Unknowingly, Indiana starts the machine with the stones, upon which Kerner, Ubermann, and the Nazi troops invade the place and announce their intention to use the machine to become gods.

After 1945 the SNP helped to circulate petitions demanding a Scottish Parliament, but until the 1960s the movement for Scottish independence achieved little success and was sustained only by symbolic and insubstantial victories, such as the theft of the Stone of Scone the ancient stone upon which Scottish kings were crowned from Westminster Abbey in 1950.

The town is ringed by ancient walls; the bottom courses of these ramparts were built by the Hernici using cyclopean blocks of stone, upon which the Romans and then the medieval Italians built a complex superstructure of ramparts pierced by four town gates.

For so long, Trott has been the epitome of reliability for England - the foundation stone upon which many of their best batting displays were built.

At the base of the monument is a stone brought from the vicinity of the Old North Bridge in Concord which is, according to an inscription, the stone upon which Davis's head fell when he was killed.

The real city, built of wood and mud and dung and brick as well as stone, huddled beneath the walls of the mighty red-stone plinth upon which the royal residences stood.

The castle is the home of the Stone of Destiny (or Stone of Scone), upon which, traditionally, the Kings of Scotland were crowned, and the Honours of Scotland -- crown jewels, scepter and sword.

The sanctuary contains the marble Stone of Remembrance, upon which is engraved the words "Greater love hath no man".

The Stone of Scone, upon which the monarchs of Scotland were traditionally crowned, has been kept in the Crown Room since its return to Scotland in 1996.