Sentence examples for upon your head from inspiring English sources

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They should be sunlight pouring down upon your head and being stored as energy until the day you need them.

The pacing is nicely varied: "Mud" follows Langston Hughes's mellow "April Rain Song" ("Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops").

Availing yourself of a diverse cast, you are not free; you have inadvertently invited a host of regulations upon your head, as if just having joined the EU.

No other community is so replete with a similar cast of leaders, so be prepared for the calumny that will pile upon your head from those who say you are taking an insufficiently tough stance against extremism.

He quotes the poet Juvenal on the dangers of merely walking down the street: "You are truly negligent and careless if, before leaving the house to go out to dinner, you don't first make a will... cultivate within yourself the forlorn hope that the windows will be content to pour out only the contents of their chamber pots upon your head".

So the next time you are out and about and you happen to look up, it should not be in fear of what else might come tumbling down upon your head, but in admiration at this great architectural masterpiece all around you, at what is arguably the most spectacular skyline on the planet.

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[And a man who reneweth the law in the power of the Most High, ye shall call a deceiver; and at last ye shall rush (upon him) to slay him, not knowing his dignity, taking innocent blood through wickedness upon your heads.] And your holy places shall be laid waste even to the ground because of Him.

"I tell you, sir, you have no other way to deal with these men but to break them or they will break you; yea and bring all the guilt of the blood and treasure shed and spent in this kingdom upon your heads and shoulders, and frustrate and make void all that work that … you have done".

You are using either the heel or the ball of the foot to inflict damage upon your opponents head.

Lay your head upon my shoulder, my dear: Time is fading fast away".

Bring a scarf or shawl, which you can use to cover your head upon entering a mosque.

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