Sentence examples for upon a table from inspiring English sources

Once upon a table: coffee with chicory & make- Shift bliss.

We came upon a table of Krispy Kreme doughnuts.

The severed head of a mannequin child upon a table.

You look like a patient etherized upon a table.

Could the patient "etherized upon a table" in "Prufrock" have come from Gautier? Could "In the room the women come and go" derive from Christina Rossetti?

For 20 years I've tried my level best To see if evening -- any evening -- would suggest A patient etherized upon a table; In vain.

She's shown to a seat at the back, but when she intervenes to correct a comment made upon a table-top model of the Abbottabad compound, the surly, foul-mouthed CIA chief (James Gandolfini) asks: "Who are you?" "I'm the motherfucker who discovered the place – sir," she replies.

In the case of tactile perception, Reid says that given certain experiential inputs, such as the pressure sensations evoked upon touching a table, we form judgments about the hardness of the table.

The scientists at the table demonstrated how quickly a dunk in liquid nitrogen will freeze common objects like a banana (it becomes hard enough to hammer nails with), a flower (it shatters like glass upon hitting a table), a rubber ball (it feels and bounces like a ping-pong ball) and a modern zinc penny (when hit with a hammer, it shatters into pieces, but a pre-1983 copennypenny just bends).

Below the diagram, each value is commented upon in a table listing information on unit rate, SMR value, data completeness and reliability.

Lay the embroidery piece, the right side up, flat upon a board or table and cover it with the paper.