Sentence examples for upon the wall from inspiring English sources

But now her mind was on the sheerest shadow she hoped to be upon the wall.

"The shadow of the crib makes an enormous cage / upon the wall," the poet Elizabeth Bishop wrote in "Songs for a Colored Singer".

They found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty.

Both dressed themselves in full Japanese costume and drank a farewell draught of saki from cups presented by the late Emperor, whose draped portrait hung upon the wall.

Foreign mercenaries William Garin Matt Damonn) and Pero Tovar (Game of Thrones' Pedro Pascal) unwittingly stumble upon the wall while fleeing tribesmen, greeted by an enormous army and the stunning sweep of the enormous structure rising from the mist.

She again rubbed a match upon the wall, and it was again light all round; and in the brightness stood her old grandmother, clear and shining like a spirit, yet looking so mild and loving.

So the very monetary distortion--the availability of cheap overnight funding in massive quantities--upon which the Wall Street financial bubble had been built had now been recreated at the lending windows of the Fed, FDIC, and the US Treasury.

In Lincheng family planning injunctions are painted upon the walls.

They were carried on chariots and planted upon the walls of captured cities.

Inside, the names of those killed are inscribed upon the walls, in long, terrible lists.

A hydraulic force is generated by the blood pressure acting upon the walls of the atrium and ventricle, and is determined by the heart's macroscopic geometry.