Sentence examples for tossed upon from inspiring English sources

Houses and trees desired something more and in summer green meadows covered the volcanic planet like an overcoat tossed upon the ocean.

Some of these performances were filmed at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland, with objects specially blown for the occasion, including a massive glass bubble that becomes a heavy vase, which is in turn tossed upon an acrobat's head as if it were as weightless as a bubble.

In contrast to the hosannas tossed upon MacArthur, Eisenhower and Marshall, some of our Iraq war generals may suffer the same fate as Gen. William Westmoreland, who, chained forever to the Vietnam catastrophe, spent the rest of his life trying to explain himself to people who would not listen.

Pearson-Prentice Hall's high school textbook, United States History, opens its chapter on the Constitution with this Daniel Webster quote: "We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land not, perhaps, the sun and stars.

For instance, Henry of Huntingdon notes that the Scots: "cleft open pregnant women, and took out the unborn babes; they tossed children upon the spear-points, and beheaded priests on altars: they cut the head of crucifixes, and placed them on the trunks of the slain; and placed the heads of the dead upon the crucifixes.

A great human sob shrieked in the wind, and tossed its tears upon the sea -- free, free, free".

Or upon Carolee Schneemann's "Meat Joy," a work "climaxed by a scene in which her group of untrained, semi-nude performers collapsed in an orgiastic heap on a cloth littered with raw fish, sausages and wet paint, while someone carrying a tray of dressed chickens tossed dead flesh upon that of the living".

On my way to a design conference in Jeddah last month the Air Canada ticket lady begged me not to get on the plane, claiming that I would be tossed in a dungeon upon arrival because my skin is pink.