Sentence examples for whereon the from inspiring English sources

Devotees are specific about whereon the body the crop top should hit.

Whereon the son of Atreus rose in anger, and threatened that which he has since done.

Treating the papers whereon the appeal was taken as a petition for a writ of certiorari, certiorari is denied.

Among the enigmas, lines of an unreal, fairy-tale beauty emerge: "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes"; "I summon up remembrance of things past"; "That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows / whereon the stars in secret influence comment"; "Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul / Of the wide world dreaming on things to come".

The medieval part of his imagination, his delight in lists of local flowers ("I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows / where oxlips and the nodding violet grows"), the light of fairy tale and fable that shines through all his comedies, was haunted by the old faith and its rituals.

Perhaps this was because he saw the surname as an especially important component of the name: surnames were, he declared, "especially respected as whereon the glory and credit of men is grounded, and by which the same is conveyed to the knowledge of posterity".

Of his power over agriculture, whereon depend the gifts of wealth, the symbol is Pluto.

The largest mountain upon it is Aenus, whereon is the temple of Zeus Aenesius; and where the island is narrowest it forms an isthmus so low‑lying that it is often submerged from sea to sea.

He was unable to attend, but he sent them a nice telegram: "To the historic scroll of love eternal whereon are the names of Darby and Joan, Tristram and Isolde, Ulysses and Penelope and Ed and Gert Silberberg".

The text concentrates on the concept of the sacred place, based on the Biblical story of Jacob's Ladder, Jacob's saying "Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not", and the story of the burning bush where Moses is told "put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground".

Others say that it is the bronze pillars of eight cubits in the temple of Heracles in Gades, whereon is inscribed the expense incurred in the construction of the temple, that are called the Pillars; and those people who have ended their voyage with visiting these pillars and sacrificing to Heracles have had it noisily spread abroad that this is the end of both land and sea.