light upon
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To find or notice something you weren't really looking for.
"While sorting through her grandfather's papers, she lit upon a collection of wartime letters."
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YOUNG MAN AXELBROD, A Short Story by Sinclair Lewis
Neuralsurfer Audiobooks & Films for Creative Minds · 23:31
Rock he observed the caress of the light upon
YOUNG MAN AXELBROD, A Short Story by Sinclair Lewis
Neuralsurfer Audiobooks & Films for Creative Minds · 32:03
with a still hard light upon red brick walls I
Peace...? (1814)
Historia Civilis · 6:33
as if "the past has ceased to throw light upon the future,