Which preposition to use with amend
But they make amends for this irregularity, by a very strict and punctilious observance of festivals, which are regulated by the motions of the sun, at whose rising and setting they have their appropriate ceremonies.
But he has escaped conviction; and if I thought Mr. Ranelagh would also escape, I might have courage to live out my miserable life, and seek to make amends in the way she would have me.
We shall then return to the task which we now abandon in despair, and endeavour to make all due amends to Mr. Keats and to our readers.'
He moved to amend by substituting slow torture.
Indeed I ought to be angry with you for having refused me this happiness so long; but you have made amends at last; though, indeed, it was impossible to have deferred it longer.
The World's well amended with him, Captain, since I lost my Money to him and you at the George in White-Fryers.
But as its merits, if it have any, are merely those of youth, so also are its faults, and they are immanent and structural; they cannot be amended without tearing the book to pieces.
The word amends is represented by Murray and others, as being singular as well as plural; but Webster's late dictionaries exhibit amend as singular, and amends as plural, with definitions that needlessly differ, though not much.
Scott, in his note on this pamphlet (amended from one by Lord Orrery), takes his usual course when considering Swift's attitude of opposition he implies a motive or prejudice.
If laws in colonies are more quickly passed, they are also more easy to amend than in older countries.
What I should have done in my latter days to make up for the imperfect amends of my repentance, I know not, if the holy Piero Pettignano had not assisted me with his prayers.
On the 12th July the committee reported a draft of articles, which were severally afterwards debated and amended until the 15th November, 1777, when they were adopted.
The Constitution should be amended before Adoption.
The gale amended after several days, and on the sixteenth day from their departure they reached Mangareva.