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The British had come upon the Germans in some skirmishes at an outpost.

For which purpose, the wiser sort of great persons, bring in ever upon the stage somebody upon whom to derive the envy, that would come upon themselves; sometimes upon ministers and servants; sometimes upon colleagues and associates; and the like;

He opens his prophecy by describing a plague of locusts, an allegory of the disasters to come upon a faithless people.

And when David inquired of the Lord, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.