Sentence examples for upon relics from inspiring English sources
One constantly stumbles upon relics of provincial Britain.
When Ms. Stolz roots around in closets, she sometimes comes upon relics of her past.
By 1990, it was, therefore, possible for me to look dispassionately into the window at Powell – as I would upon a relic.
In High Holborn, just north of Lincoln's Inn, I stumbled upon some wonderful relics of old Legal London: the two surviving Inns of Chancery.
Thus did we come upon the three oldest relics of the rural period: homes built of wood and looking dangerously fragile at 120 and 122 East 92nd Street, and the Richard Hibberd House (1825-53) at 160 East 92nd Street, which was a home of Eartha Kitt.
Winding her way through the narrow laneways of dusty Bombay bazaar one hot day, Angela Hartwick happened upon a number of Bollywood cinema relics, and saw something many others had obviously missed.
The IAA, realising that it had granted an approval licence for a potentially very special artefact, requested that Golan hand over the relic upon its return from Canada, which he did in March 2003.
St. Barbara's relics were transferred to the Church of the Tithes and upon that church's demolition, to the St Volodymyr's Cathedral in 1961.
Many relics are preserved.
Particularly celebrated relics rarely moved.
