Sentence examples for write upon from inspiring English sources

KOREA IS A "difficult country to write upon", discovered Isabella Bird Bishop, a British travel writer*, after four visits to the country in the 1890s.

They write upon our faces  Until the pen strikes bone.

The term is derived from the Classical Greek epigraphein ("to write upon, incise") and epigraphē ("inscription").

In 1945 the UN's founders had a clean slate to write upon, because everything had been destroyed.

In spots, cuts and welds parallel the scars and deformities that life can write upon skin and bone.

RARE indeed is the physicist who would even attempt to write upon biochemical, patho logical and surgical phases of a complex subject in addition to his own subject.

"She wrote upon it: Return to sender, address unknown".

("If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old").

Everyone in "The American Plan" has been written upon, densely and in indelible ink.

"Beloved mother!" she wrote, upon the occasion of Pamela's suicide.

And the chief scribes wrote upon tablets, saying, Jeremy is false of tongue.