WordNet
v. find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake" [syn: fall upon, strike, come upon, chance upon, come across, chance on, happen upon, attain, discover]
Usage examples of "light upon".
She had not gone about doing good, trying to entice the birds and the squirrels and the butterflies to light upon her person, healing the sick and the maimed, praying and preaching.
The moon cast pale light upon Rehhaile's slender body as she watched Kane moodily toss stones into the lake beneath their perch.
The new Warren Zevon casting cold light upon the dark side of life—.
Nevertheless, virtue is of herself so mighty, that, in spite of all the magic that Zoroaster its first inventor knew, she will come victorious out of every trial, and shed her light upon the earth as the sun does upon the heavens.
One death may explain itself, but it throws no light upon another: the groping inquiry must begin anew.
Wilcox to the minds of some men--a concentrated light upon a tiny spot, a little Ten Minutes moving self-contained through its appointed years.
A day may come though I pray it do not--when I shall be able to throw new light upon much that is dark in this matter.
But the truth of the Matter is, that on either side of the Temple, there are Rocks that shoot two Miles into the Sea, and wound the Whales when they light upon 'em.
As the object of this Lecture is not to give an outline of the criminal law, but to explain its general theory, I shall only consider such offences as throw some special light upon the subject, and shall treat of those in such order as seems best fitted for that purpose.
Furthermore, it will throw much light upon some important and peculiar doctrines which cannot be returned to later.
The above reward will be paid to any person who will give such information as will lead to the discovery of the said Oliver Twist, or tend to throw any light upon his previous history, in which the advertiser is, for many reasons, warmly interested.
There were a few streaks of bluish-green among the clouds, a few patches of watery light upon the earth, and then the dripping faç.
The two chronicles, however, translated and printed at the end of this volume, will be seen to throw a flood of light upon the condition of the city of Vijayanagar early in the sixteenth century, and upon the history of its successive dynasties.
We will take thee at the same ransom with Prior Aymer, or rather at one hundred crowns lower, which hundred crowns shall be mine own peculiar loss, and not light upon this worshipful community.
The authorities at Tulane Universityshed no light upon either cult or image, and now thehad come to the highest authorities in theand met with no more than the Greenland tale ofWebb.