Which preposition to use with accommodations
The skies in the country may be bluest at this season, sir; the air most delicious, the scenery most gorgeous, and accommodations of all kinds most plenty and excellent, but it will not do.
The number of ladies present was even greater than on the first day, and the resources of the ushers were severely taxed to find accommodation for them all.
When Miss POTTS and Mr. SIMPSON rejoined Mr. DIBBLE, in the office of the latter, across the street, it was decided that the flighty young girl should be made less expensive to her friends by temporary accommodation in an economical boarding-house, and that the Gospeler, returning to Bumsteadville, should persuade Miss CAROWTHERS to come and stay with her until the time for the reopening of the Macassar Female College.
He could, however, he thought, get them plain accommodations with an aunt, who lived a little from the center of the town.
The delicate point is this, that the petrification or at least the process of stiffening that has attacked the whole spiritual life of Islâm since about 1000 A.D. makes its accommodation to the requirements of modern intercourse a most difficult problem.
Mr Braganza had informed me that participants would be offered free accommodation on the campus.
She told him that, as the accommodation at her disposal was so small, she only took boarders for a limited time, and this of course enabled him to curtail his inquiries.
So far could he abstract himself from his intense sufferings, as to be solicitous, in a way that affected me tenderly, respecting my comfort and accommodation as his guest; a circumstance that might appear trivial to many, but which, to my mind, was illustrative of that disinterestedness and affection which were so habitual to him in life, as not to desert him in death.
The two armies lay in sight of each other for some days without coming to action; and both princes, being apprehensive of the event, which would probably be decisive, hearkened the more willingly to the counsels of Anselm and the other great men, who mediated an accommodation between them.
You shall stay here and take tea with me, and then I will take you to FRENCH'S Hotel for your accommodation during the night.
Indeed, it is just beginning to be seen all over the country that the public have both expected and received too much accommodation from the companies.
Accommodations within doors, and under roofs of houses, or roofs of temples, was altogether impossible.
The Pope assigned him a yearly pension of a hundred scudi; and the withholders of his mother's dowry came to an accommodation by which he was to have an annuity of a hundred ducats, and a considerable sum in hand.
We had good entertainment here, better accommodation than at Corrichatachin, and time enough to ourselves.
Philidor, who still confessed to the possession of a few francs of their original capital, was for putting up at a small hotel or inn and paying for this accommodation out of principal.
The accommodations aboard the schooner were cramped, to say the least, and the good lady had a perfect horror of volcanoes.
From this place to Leavenworth we secured first-rate accommodations along the road, as the country had become pretty well settled.
But we obtained better accommodation under the rocks in a house containing two rooms connected by a passage, and, seating ourselves in the centre, could be well heard by those outside the door.
In the mean time a letter was sent in his behalf by Oglethorpe to the African Company, requesting them to take up his obligation to Mr. Hunt, and to pay the expenses of his voyage and accommodation after his arrival; and to answer the bills of Mr. Bluet for his keeping and instruction, till he himself should return.
The long journeys, the great exposure and the meager accommodations among the people, were trying in the extreme.