Which preposition to use with alter
So far as I could see, it had not altered in any way; but looked as though it were only yesterday that I had seen it.
"There I found the room considerably altered from my recollection of it, especially as it was arranged as a sitting-out room, but no one was there, nor were there any signs of its having been used, which from its rather secluded position, was natural enough.
So Colonel Musgrave was duly reëlected that spring to the librarianship of the Lichfield Historical Association, and the name of Mrs. George Pendomer was not stricken from the list of patronesses of the Lichfield German Club, but was merely altered to "Mrs. Clarice Pendomer."
Next morning, as soon as breakfast was over, the girls took Myrtle out with them to some of the shops, fitting her to shoes and gloves and having her try on some ready-made gowns so that they might be quickly altered for her use.
The arrangements of the beat had been slightly altered at the last moment after the hunters had separated.
The essential point, that the proportions of available male and female labor are fairly constant (not that they may not alter with time and circumstances, but that they are essentially independent of the conditions of demand) holds true not only of a country as a whole, but hardly less of a particular district.
" Her face had altered into a pink and white penitence which was flavored with awe.
The only State whose frontiers have not altered during this period is Switzerland, and even that country seized the opportunity which a disturbed Europe offered her in 1848, to substitute a unified federal system for the constitution imposed upon her in 1815.
] This is one of the many phrases in these volumes which, being not understood, was altered without any authority from the ancient copies.
He who listened, while the other read, was the master of the house, now emaciated in form, and altered as to the expression and healthiness of his countenance; for his mind had dwelt too long among visionary thoughts, and his body had been worn by imprisonment and stripes.
If we go on to the 5th article, we shall find the 1st and 5th clauses of the 9th section of the 1st article restrained from being altered before the year 1808.
"The Church," he says, "did not wish to alter by religious songs the simplicity, or the meaning, of her great liturgical prayer.
" "Then the name and appearance of the yacht was altered on the voyage, and it became the Lola," I said.
Before sunrise on Good Friday the Bohemians are in the habit of going into their gardens, and after falling on their knees before a tree, to say, "I pray, O green tree, that God may make thee good," a formula which Mr. Ralston considers has probably been altered under the influence of Christianity "from a direct prayer to the tree to a prayer for it."
Always the final play is altered out of all knowledge from its first idea."
"Altered beyond his knowledge."
If it be so the natural site may not be altered of our city, town, village, yet by artificial means it may be helped.
We found him lying on a straw bed, and strangely altered within a few hours.
He alters like a clear pool to every mood of the sky, so that the shallow observer might forget how deep the waters are.
If their mirror showed them no change, the world had altered around them without their suspecting it, while they continued to copy their antiquated models.
Facts had altered and were altering beneath that spell.
True, he had promised that he would not leave Marlborough without seeing her; but things had altered between them since then.
As a matter of course, nothing was altered about the dwelling; the piles of wood, and other objects placed there by the hands of man, remaining just as they had been left; but even these looked less cheering, more unavailable, than when last seen.
Alter per Turquescen, et per Persiam, tamen ibi sunt deserta plurium dietarum, in quibus nisi esset exercitus bene prouisus, posset perire.
But the Dutch had now begun the struggle, which they managed to carry on against Philip II in every corner of the world; and even in 1510 De Los Rios complained that he found the country very much altered through the progress and advance made by the Dutch; also that the Moros of Mindanao and Sulu, feeling that they were supported by Holland, were continually in a state of discontent.