Which preposition to use with set
I saw them arrive; they were a fine set of men, tall, powerfully built, their skin a red-brown, not black, entirely dressed in white from turbans to sandals.
French people are set in their ways, and there is so little sympathy with anything that is not French.
Not the library is inspirational, but the life-spirit of mankind, bound up in even dusty papyrus-rolls, or set on clay-tablets of four thousand years ago.
The little fellow set about hunting, with great alacrity, over his bag, until he found a piece divided like three fingers, then a piece with five divisions, and lastly, one with seven, and putting them side by side, he found the piece of a correspondent length, and thus, in less than eight minutes and a half, answered, "fifteen."
Too few workers are set at work which they know how to do, and the untaught rush at tasks which angels fear to touch.
This is the first problem that is set before each man: to rise above his raceto be the culmination of virtue until now.
They are held by its tenets, guided by its ideals, thrilled by its hopes, and set to its works of charity and mercy.
Some were almost black with iron stains, and some were set with "jewels" of quartz, but for the most part they were formless fragments of a rich and brassy yellow.
The Grand Rout is set for tonight.
The ice-box will be set against this wall.
His face lost its playfulness; as it set into gravity, the lines upon it deepened, and his eyes looked rather sad.
Spelling and arithmetic, history, etymology, and geography, are not tasks set over school-children by a hard taskmaster, who keeps them from sunshine and out-of-door play.
To attain is to get through striving that which one has set as a goal or end of his desire or ambition.
Gradually, the days and nights lengthened out, until they equaled a space somewhat less than one of the old-earth hours; the sun rising and setting like a great, ruddy bronze disk, crossed with ink-black bars.
Thus it is that this war, carefully manoeuvred by the diplomats, is being fought to conserve to one set of capitalists their right to exploit the peoples, and to check another set from encroaching upon that right.
We had just time to notice so much, on the afternoon of our arrival, before the sun set behind the huge mountains which surround this charming spot and the hour of dinner arrived.
The barrel was shorter than the usual, and of the best Spanish metal, and the pan and the lock were set after my own device.
Then Beltane turned him suddenly away, and with broad back set towards Mortain, strode off across the desolate moor.
They were set under the keenest vigilance of the inquisitors, without being able even to counterfeit any attachment to the Church, whose most grievous yoke they had put on, but which in heart they hated.
The entire front above the glacier appeared as one tremendous precipice, slightly receding at the top, and bristling with spires and pinnacles set above one another in formidable array.
The place was some kind of inn, for a negro brought us two tankards of apple-jack, and tobacco pipes, and lit a foul-smelling lantern, which he set between us.
Of a sudden he uttered a shout and, setting by his bow, drew sword, and leaping from the shadow, was gone.
When the glasses had been set beside each plate, she turned towards Carmel.
One foot rested in a furrow, the other was set among the grass of the margin, near the fencehis place, I thought.
And thus he presently espied a man who leaned him upon a long pike, his face set toward the nearest watch-fire: and the man's eyes were closed, and he snored gently.