UPON in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:

Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
 Current Search - upon in Macbeth
1  Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
2  I'll call upon you straight: abide within.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
3  Ay, my good lord: our time does call upon's.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
4  His absence, sir, Lays blame upon his promise.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
5  They did so; to the amazement of mine eyes, That look'd upon't.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
6  A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, And yet I would not sleep.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
7  Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready, She strike upon the bell.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
8  The queen that bore thee, Oft'ner upon her knees than on her feet, Died every day she lived.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
9  New honours come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould But with the aid of use.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
10  Let your Highness Command upon me, to the which my duties Are with a most indissoluble tie For ever knit.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
11  Malcolm and Donalbain, the King's two sons, Are stol'n away and fled; which puts upon them Suspicion of the deed.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
12  I will drain him dry as hay: Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his pent-house lid; He shall live a man forbid.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
13  My lord is often thus, And hath been from his youth: pray you, keep seat; The fit is momentary; upon a thought He will again be well.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
14  I think not of them: Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve, We would spend it in some words upon that business, If you would grant the time.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
15  I am yet Unknown to woman; never was forsworn; Scarcely have coveted what was mine own; At no time broke my faith; would not betray The devil to his fellow; and delight No less in truth than life: my first false speaking Was this upon myself.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
16  He chid the sisters When first they put the name of king upon me, And bade them speak to him; then, prophet-like, They hail'd him father to a line of kings: Upon my head they plac'd a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
17  I think, withal, There would be hands uplifted in my right; And here, from gracious England, have I offer Of goodly thousands: but, for all this, When I shall tread upon the tyrant's head, Or wear it on my sword, yet my poor country Shall have more vices than it had before, More suffer, and more sundry ways than ever, By him that shall succeed.
Macbeth By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.