Sentences with phrase «alight upon»

Ever alert for items featuring the quatrefoil, the owners were pleased to alight upon this linen press in Paris's Marché aux Puces.

Your tribe (should you be a minimalist) seems to alight upon that 1998 date as if any simple assertion entwined with it makes sense.

Exhibits comprise other tablets and fragments, and many replicas — the actual Mesha Stele remains in the Louvre, the Rosetta Stone in the British Museum — in order that the mantle of historical authority may here alight upon these stewards of this assembled text.

«Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.»

Entered via a door in the garden wall, guests immediately alight upon a small outdoor area highlighted by the clear waters of a swimming pool.

There are many products available that hide your cat's litter tray so that it is not the first thing that guests eyes alight upon when they enter your room.

I begin reading it, and alight upon this post about CapWiz's testing of email advocacy tools in communicating with members of Congress.

The locust — ארבה arbeh, either from ארב arab, to lie in wait or in ambush, because often immense flights of them suddenly alight upon the fields, vineyards, etc., and destroy all the produce of the earth; or from רבה rabah, he multiplied, because of their prodigious swarms.

to alight upon and the unusual fortitude to keep holding.

In selecting the subject of our latest director symposium, we alighted upon a figure of constant surprise, of reinvention, of charm and oddity and intellectual freedom.

Woody Allen has been globe - hopping for a while now; and in «To Rome with Love,» he's alighted upon the Eternal City — with very mixed results.

Their range, then, is the range of consciousness as it alights upon the tangible facts of the world, fusing itself to the materials it encounters and transforming what it sees, even as it is transformed.

Not exact matches

To EricNoot: 14 ¶ And God said, Let there be alights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for bsigns, and for cseasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

A seaplane is an aircraft designed to take off and land (correctly, though less commonly termed, «alight») upon water.

But, upon entering the gallery, the eye first alights on an array of what resembles oversized confetti scattered across the floor.