Sentences with phrase «wind fell upon»

During the championship, rain and wind fell upon the runners.

Not exact matches

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

If they could only have cast their minds further back, perhaps they might have recalled a lost paradise: green and yellow meadows stirred by tender winds, umbrageous forests and emerald groves, glass - blue mountain peaks melting into azure skies, glittering bays whose diamond waters break in jade and turquoise surges on sands like powdered alabaster — where the rain falls gently, and is transformed by the setting sun into shimmering curtains of gold — where, beyond verdant valleys and limestone caves, lies a palace filled with every delight the senses can endure, enclosing garden courtyards where crystal fountains splash in porphyry basins, intoxicating perfumes hang upon the breezes, undying flowers of every hue shine out amid the greenery's blue shadows...

And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock

It is there that he heals all of our wounds as we fall broken upon Him.

With Queen Elizabeth II winding down her duties as Head of the Commonwealth, the President noted that his toast takes on an added significance, as it falls upon him to express the depth of the collective regret of the Commonwealth that she would no longer automatically be present at meeting.

«Once upon a time, up on the wind, there was a bird...» Epic Pictures Group has released a new US trailer for a film titled Brothers of the Wind, an Austrian production in English about a boy who finds an eagle that has fallen out of its nest and raises it himswind, there was a bird...» Epic Pictures Group has released a new US trailer for a film titled Brothers of the Wind, an Austrian production in English about a boy who finds an eagle that has fallen out of its nest and raises it himsWind, an Austrian production in English about a boy who finds an eagle that has fallen out of its nest and raises it himself.

Upon setting out to nab some booty, they wind up raiding a ships filled with plague victims, boy scouts, and ghosts, which leads to the old cartoon trick of the Pirate Captain only falling into the water when he realizes he's not actually standing on anything.

As costs fall and generation capacity increases, subsidies and price support from the European Union and individual member states are now expiring, and the first self - standing offshore wind projects have been bid upon, signaling the beginning of a new phase.

May the road rise up to meet you May the wind be always at your back May the sun shine warm upon your face May the rains fall soft upon your fields And until we meet again... May God hold you in the palm of His hand

It's a problem that Land Rover has just run into head - first after its claims that the Land Wind X7 was a shameless copy of its Range Rover Evoque fell upon deaf ears.

Visions of farmers driving their fully functioning manure spreaders spewing waste far and wide across their fields comes to mind, with the ORE bureaucrats being the farmers / drivers, the untreated flying - for - a-short-spurt «fertilizer» (the by - products of cud - chewing mindless eat - almost - anything grazers) being amateur registrants and the fields being the hopeful but ignorant consumers upon which the fertilizer falls willy - nilly depending upon which way the wind is blowing.