Sentence examples for upon their backs from inspiring English sources

Local women wore distinctive hand-woven clothes and young mothers carried their wide-eyed babies in sacks upon their backs.

The Bodmin Register of 1525 refers to local people being allowed to "bear away upon their backs a burden of lop, crop, hook, crook, and bag wood".

One naval officer wrote that "the natives, alarmed, ran along the beach in seeming great terror... they took their canoes out of the water upon their backs and ran off with them into the country, together with their fishing tackle and children".

Men whose rebellious but hazy longings have enticed them into a hurricane of small, shallow adventures and brief, prosaic labors, and two-fisted repudiations of thought, are not apt to find themselves until some sudden catastrophe places them almost upon their backs and veritably forces them to peer into their minds and their hearts.

"As they crept along, stooping low to discern the plant, a soft yellow gleam was reflected from the buttercups into their shaded faces, giving them an elfish, moonlit aspect, though the sun was pouring upon their backs in all the strength of noon".

He finds a Norwich in full employment (even the four-year-olds earn their bread); three hundred droves of turkeys (150,000) crossing the River Stour to market in one season, and sporting gentlemen who return from St Osyth "with an Essex ague upon their backs which they find a heavier load than the fowls they have shot".

This is not the case large and small female Diaprepes are equally likely to want to climb upon their sisters' backs.

In campgrounds, RV's are parked row upon row with their backs to water and electrical connections.

But the Italian composers of verismo turned their backs upon opera that depicted gods, kings and monsters, focusing instead on "real" life at the grassroots end of the social spectrum.

Iraq's prime minister has begun to pursue the rebels with vigor, and Iraq's own people have turned their backs upon them, seeing a threat where they once saw heroes.

"Our new leaders seemed to turn their backs upon the sea and to ignore the fact that we are an island".