hang upon

They seemed to hang upon the air even now, so many years later.

He little knew, I think, how we hung upon his words.

The future, it seemed, was hanging upon the next few minutes.

When at last he spoke I hung upon his every word.

She had no degree to hang upon her wall, and soon they would.

It is not too much to say that peace or war may hang upon the issue.

They cannot hang upon the wall ladder and force it.

You would be sorry, I am sure, to miss anything when so much hangs upon it.

All hangs upon the answer that is sent to my prayer.

She, too, guessed all that hung upon the action of the coming moment.

Small children hung upon her or huddled on the steps.

The fate of the evening, therefore, hung upon the decision.

The young attorney's eyes wandered to a photograph which hung upon the wall.

There was more writing where the shield had hung upon the back of the door.

Only this time it wasn't four lives that hung upon the answer, but all of existence.

Pray then that I may be given light, for your life hangs upon it.

O Lord, he will hang upon him like a disease!

The echo of the cry hung upon the still air.

His life hung upon a slender hope, and he waited.

I make weapons, however, that are made to kill, not to hang upon walls.

They were the finest that I had written, and the audience hung upon them.

For a full hour she spoke thus, while all that vast audience hung upon her words.

It was evident from their faces that they hung upon his every word.

I think it flattered him to see the way in which we all three hung upon his words.

Everything we have worked so hard to build hangs upon the next challenge to my power, or to Richards.