act upon

Ruffo advancing without any plan, but relying upon the enemy's want of numbers, which prevented them from attempting to act upon the offensive, and ready to take advantage of any accident which might occur, approached Naples.

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson

Late sittings with Miss Amanda, and then much later sittings to make up the lost time, began to make inroads upon William's health, and all his fair prospects would probably have been blighted before the close of the term, had he not determined to act upon conjecture as to Miss Ward's anguish of mind.

Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck

This idea appeared to offer some chance of gaining over Miss Ritty to aid her in escaping from Spring-Meadow; and at once, she resolved to act upon it.

The White Slave or Memoirs of a Fugitive

A comitium might be legislative, and pass laws or plebiscites; judiciary, and hear trials; public, to deal with matters like adoption; electoral, to return magistrates; or religious, to act upon religious matters like voting for priests and augurs.

Antony and Cleopatra

Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it as a sure maxim,

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

These serve to perfect the form and complete the symetry of the body, but their most important use is to act upon the bones and produce animal motion: they terminate at the ends in grisly substances, by which they are fastened to the various parts of the system.

The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.

His conclusion was that “the magnetism of the earth and the attraction forward in the ship must act upon the needle in the nature of a compound force, and that errors produced by the attraction should be proportionate to the sines of the angles between the ship's head and the magnetic meridian.”

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders

In an 1845 communication to the Royal Society, which Darwin, as a Fellow, would quite likely have read, Francis Sibson Esq.* wrote: ‘The muscles that open and close the blow-hole, and that act upon the various sacs, form one of the most complicated yet most exquisitely adjusted pieces of machinery that either nature or art presents.’

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As I explained earlier page 147, Baby Pace gives babies and toddlers the extra time needed to process and act upon what we are showing, singing, or asking them.

Itsy Bitsy Yoga

Miss Owenson was the last person to act upon the above directions; her books read as if they were dashed off in a fine frenzy of composition.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century