to come upon

If you're unlucky enough to come upon one of these dangerous creatures. The safest thing to do. . . Is run the other way.

This book has such a contemporary ring that you expect to come upon a description of Osama bin Laden living in a safe-house in Abbottabad.

they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them.

They decided to COME upon the enemy stronghold by night.

Meanwhile, Mula quickly ran around the bend and placed the man's sack in the middle of the road where he would have to come upon it .

Since this century's beginning, a time of tempest has seemed to come upon the continents of the earth.

If you're unlucky enough to come upon one of these dangerous creatures.

In Western cities it is not rare to come upon a blind man accompanied by a very serious dog in a harness.

In it he tells a story which goes like this: A fisherman happened to come upon a place called Peach-Blossom Spring.

Do you think that the measure of your mind is going to come upon the measureless?

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

They began to come upon from time to time small cairns of rock by the roadside.

And Jeremias wrote in one book all the evil that was to come upon Babylon: all these words that are written against Babylon.

This is the journey the mind had to take to come upon this beauty without the word.

And he sent spies into their camp, and they came back and brought him word that they designed to come upon them in the night.

IT IS rare to come upon a child prodigy in art collecting.

it doesn't take long when driving north from New Albany to come upon boundless golden fields awaiting the harvester.

And to come upon that there must be no shadow of fear.

The sin and rebellion of the people caused plagues to come upon the people.

To come upon, often by accident; meet with.

To come upon by chance or arrangement.

To come upon unexpectedly; take by surprise:

To come upon and observe:

To come upon and follow:

To come upon after a search: