"Coming upon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... yees 'av a mighty gintle way of coming upon one unawares, barring it's the same as a kick from a wild horse. I was dr'aming jist thin of a blast of powder in a stone quarry, which exploded under me feet, an' sint me up in the ship's rigging, an' there I hung by the eaves until a lovely girl pulled me in at the front door ...
— The Lost Trail - I • Edward S. Ellis
... is not myself, and I have never felt that the world's axis was located with reference to my habitat. But this is so interesting an old world that I don't want to leave it prematurely, because one does run the risk of not coming upon one equally interesting. So I shall think of you and try to see you later, in the new offices in the Mills Building. May clients come thick as dogwood in Rock Creek Park; and trout streams in hidden places be revealed unto you, within an hour's flight ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane
... it is as bad as that I begin to repent of coming upon this silver expedition, for I am very helpless here with these wretched savages to mar ...
— The Silver Canyon - A Tale of the Western Plains • George Manville Fenn
... sparrow to whom Johnnie had, for this long while, been giving good-turn crumbs, made a scrambling get-away from the window sill, followed in the same instant by a neat, brown mate who was equally startled at such a noise from somewhere just within. For dawn was only now coming upon the thousands of roofs that shelter the people of the Greatest City, the sun being still far down behind a sea-covered bulge of the world. And this was an hour when, usually, only ...
— The Rich Little Poor Boy • Eleanor Gates
... combination shown in Plate II, Fig. 3. The piece A F must have the same dimensions as a simple string piece of a length A B—so that it may not yield between B and either of the points A or D. The two braces D F and E F must be stiff enough to support the load coming upon them. Suppose the weight on a pair of drivers of a Locomotive to be 10 tons, then each side must bear 5 tons, and each brace 2-1/2 tons 2-1/2 x 2240 5600 lbs. Now, to allow for sudden or extra strains, call 8000 lbs. the strain to be supported by each brace, and, accordingly, ...
— Instructions on Modern American Bridge Building • G. B. N. Tower
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