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call upon Thee

Forsake me not now calling upon Thee, whom Thou preventedst before I called, and urgedst me with much variety of repeated calls, that I would hear Thee from afar, and be converted, and call upon Thee, that calledst after me; for Thou, Lord, blottedst out all my evil deservings, so as not to repay into my hands, wherewith I fell from Thee; and Thou hast prevented all my well deservings, so as to repay the work of Thy hands wherewith
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

called upon them

Meanwhile they opened negotiations with the Rhegians, and called upon them as Chalcidians to assist their Leontine kinsmen; to which the Rhegians replied that they would not side with either party, but should await the decision of the rest of the Italiots, and do as they did.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

colors under the

under false colors, under the garb of, under cover of; over the left.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Corporation undertakes to

The difficulty of raising the necessary funds with which to carry on municipal undertakings would be greatly increased if the Board of Management attempted to do everything; and, in the prospectus to be ultimately issued, a clear statement will be made of what the Corporation undertakes to do with the moneys entrusted to it, and this will at first embrace little more than those things which experience has proved municipalities can perform better than individuals.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

come upon the

We saw a few sperm whales; but most of the whales that come upon the coast are fin-backs, hump-backs, and right-whales, which are more difficult to take, and are said not to give oil enough to pay for the trouble.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

came up to

On the other hand I have very frequently the Opportunity of seeing a Rural Andromache , who came up to Town last Winter, and is one of the greatest Fox-hunters in the Country.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

curb unto them

Voluntary, the third, or intellective, which commands the other two in men, and is a curb unto them, or at least should be, but for the most part is captivated and overruled by them; and men are led like beasts by sense, giving reins to their concupiscence and several lusts.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

countries up to

" The king replies, "Ye shall carry these my words to the Swedish king—that I will establish peace between our countries up to the frontier which Olaf Trygvason had before me; and each shall bind himself faithfully not to trespass over it.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

caused us to

A tempest of wind and rain, added to the discomforts of the Ocean House (let no one be deceived by advertisements and a printed list of guests in daily papers into thinking it a palatial abode), caused us to abandon all idea of staying, [36] and leaving numerous letters of introduction unpresented, we packed up and made the best of our way back to New York by a morning train.
— from Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water The Journal of a Tour Through the British Empire and America by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent

comes up there

An earnest and practical laborer in the New York slums comes up there on vacation—he is leader of a section of the University Settlement.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

come up to

Would you like me to tell him to come up to see you?
— from The Flower Girl of The Château d'Eau, v.2 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XVI) by Paul de Kock

conversation until the

This gentleman was delighted to have an opportunity of conversing [ 21 ] about the affairs of the outside world; it was to him that I addressed the conversation until the sullen temper of the chief relaxed.
— from Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 2 of 2) The Turkish Provinces by H. F. B. (Harry Finnis Blosse) Lynch

came up to

My eyes had often strayed, as we came up, to the rounded edge above the col and the final rocks below the North-east arête.
— from Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance, 1921 by A. F. R. (Alexander Frederick Richmond) Wollaston

caresses upon their

We have exhorted parents not to exhaust imprudently the sensibility of their children; not to lavish caresses upon their infancy, and cruelly to withdraw their kindness when their children have learned to expect the daily stimulus of affection.
— from Practical Education, Volume II by Richard Lovell Edgeworth

Camp under the

The trip alone to the Camp, under the most auspicious circumstances, would have been a trying ordeal for her, but under the existing conditions it required nothing less than heroism.
— from Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

convince us that

Experience only can convince us that happiness is not a plant of this world; and that, though many an eye hath beheld its blossoms no mortal hand hath ever gathered its fruits.
— from Marriage by Susan Ferrier

comes under the

And individual conduct, quite as much as collective affairs, comes under the same test.
— from First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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