Which preposition to use with m
"They'll shoot 'im in a minute," a voice shouted, suddenly frightened.
I've 'ad my eye on 'im for a long time past.'
answered the boy, "just a minute; I'll see 'im on the plane.
but I knows a party as 'as, and it ain't likely, Mr. Orkins, as you'll get 'im by orferin' a price like that, for why?
General Carr ordered Lieutenant Pepoon's scouts and Company M to the front.
Whowoonbe?I took m' umbrella 'n' thrashed 'm with it, remarking 'F'shame!
"Why you drag 'im like ox, Irish Mike?" cried the younger negro"why you no row 'im like other folk?" "Ahyou're as bad as the rest of 'em," growled Mike.
He looked 'im up and down and all over, and then 'e gave a fierce, loud cough.
m into rather thick slices, as the fruit shrinks very much in the boiling.
They 'ad their dinner with 'im at Brown's, and nothing they could do pleased him.
They give Bob credit for too much sense to waste time over wot they knew 'e couldn't get, but arter they 'ad heard one or two things they got alarmed, and pretty near the whole village went up to see Mr. Bunnett and tell 'im about Bob's true character.
Mr. Bunnett couldn't believe 'em at fast, but arter they 'ad told 'im of Bob's poaching and the artful ways and tricks he 'ad of getting money as didn't belong to 'im 'e began to think different.
boy! 's poorysight-f'r-'nuncle-t' see-'s-nephew-'n-this-p'litical-c'ndit'n.'H'slep on; 'n' 't last I picked up him, 'n' umbrella, 'n' took 'm out t' some cool place t'shleep't off.
"Sam held out his 'and, and the lodger, arter saying it was only a little bit o' fun on 'is part, and telling 'im wot a fancy he 'ad taken to 'im from the fust, put Ginger's watch and chain into his 'ands and eighteen pounds four shillings and sevenpence.
And, if you come to that, why shouldn't I pretend to be my own ghost and warn 'im off the drink?" Mrs. Burtenshaw got so excited at the idea she couldn't 'ardly speak, but at last, arter saying over and over agin she wouldn't do such a thing for worlds, she and Silas arranged that he should come in at about three o'clock in the morning and give Bill a solemn warning.
m as their leader.
They went out separate, as the manager said it would be better for them not to be seen together, and Rupert, keeping about a dozen yards behind, follered 'im down the Mile End Road.
When we got to the cabin we found the door was locked, and, arter the skipper 'ad told Artful wot he'd do to 'im if he didn't open it, he 'ad to go on deck and talk to 'im through the skylight.
"Let me git 'im over 'ere," he said, "and I'll lay 'im outsee if I don't.
"No more tracking 'im after this, Jimmy.
In the old words, compt, accompt, comptroller, (for count, account, controller,) the m is sounded as n. M before n, at the beginning of a word, is silent; as in Mnason, Mnemosyne, mnemonics.
Eastward Hoe (1605), Jonson, Chapman, and Marston, iv, I: 'You might carry an M under your Girdle'; and not infrequently.
"He gave Frederick Scott a push and follered 'im along the road, and every time Frederick stopped to ask 'im wot 'e was doing of 'e gave 'im another push to show 'im.
"I found 'im inside the 'Horse and Groom,"' he said to the astonished Selina; "they've got a new barmaid there, and the pore gal wasn't in the house 'arf an hour
ter 'im en ax' 'im, kinder keerless lack, ef he did n' wanter buy a mule.