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I know what it is to rise from a sick bed for the first time, Mr. Vernon, and I can enter into your feelings perfectly Not at all--not at all; I mean that I'm not at all faint," he said hastily; "and I'm quite strong, quite Let me see you comfortably rangé," said Mrs. Lorton, who was persuaded that she had hit upon a French word for "arranged."

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  1. preposition On. See Usage Note at on.

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  • Additional services are offered in Spanish upon request. —  Classified Ads
  • Al-Aswany wrote this novel in Arabic upon his return from postgraduate studies in the United States; Humphrey Davies 'translation marks the first time the work has been published in English.
  • Gottlieb and Aunt Hedwig and the man who made the sign (this last, however, for the venal reason that more letters would be required) had stood out stoutly for the honest German "Kaffehaus;" but Minna, whose tastes were refined, had insisted upon the use of the French word: there was more style about it, she said. —  A Romance Of Tompkins Square 1891
  • I remember one night, while several of his employés were striving unsuccessfully to repeat the Lord's prayer in Latin, upon which they had made a bet, that Don Pedro joined the party, and taking up the wager, went through the petition without faltering. —  Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
  • We have known you since we Russians came to a communion with Western Europe and began to draw from the great spiritual treasury created by our brethren of Western Europe From generation to generation we have watched intently the life of England, and have stored away in our minds and our hearts everything brilliant, peculiar, and individual, that has impressed itself upon the English word, the English thought, and the English life We have always wondered at the breadth and the manifoldness of the English soul, in whose literature one finds, side by side, Milton and Swift, Scott and Shelley, Shakespeare and Byron. —  New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915
 

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  1. from Middle English upon, uppon, upone, opon, oppon, apon, appone, uppen, from Anglo-Saxon uppon, uppan (= Icelandic up ā, upp ā = Swedish (from uppå) = Danish paa, upon), upon, up on, from up, upp, up, + an, on, on: see up and on. Cf. Anglo-Saxon uppan (= Old Saxon uppan = OFries. uppa, oppa = Old High German ūfen, uffen), up, from up, upp + adverb suffix -an: see up, adv.
 

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