Which preposition to use with appeals
This theory appealed to me, as being more plausible, and accounting more satisfactorily for the extraordinary size and brilliance of the blaze, that had lit up the dead world, so unexpectedly.
Homiletics is the appeal of man to man, for the welfare of his soul, and the true progress of mankind.
SAMUEL S. NICHOLAS, late Judge of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, and a slaveholder, in a speech before the legislature of that state, Jan. 1837, says, "The deliberate convictions of the most matured consideration I can give the subject, are, that the institution of slavery is a most serious injury to the habits, manners and morals of our white
The stranger was tossing restlessly in his bunk, opening and shutting his parched mouth in silent, piteous appeal for the water that must still be doled to him parsimoniously.
As to those who do not call in question my veracity, but only doubt my sanity, I fearlessly appeal from their unkind judgment to the sober and unprejudiced part of mankind, whether, what I have stated in the following pages, is not consonant with truth and nature, and whether they do not there see, faithfully reflected from the Moon,
In her eyes there was a pathetic question, a line of anxiety in the lids, an innocent appeal in the looks.
Reports of cases adjudged in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, from October 12, 1934, to June 17, 1935.
" Washington (D. C.) Star:"This work appeals with peculiar force to the public.
He put her off by declaring that there was a good prospect of her husband being acquitted, but that if the verdict unfortunately went against him her confession would have more weight in saving him, when the appeal against the verdict was heard.
"May we get in on this?" she called, interrupting an eloquent appeal on Laura's part.
But all the entreaties of Fatimaall my letters, impassioned as they were, appealing at once to her generosity, humanity, and love,could not prevail on her to grant me an interview.
The Baptists soon afterwards responded to his appeal by forming a Missionary Union, and they appointed Mr. and Mrs. Judson two of their agents.
It is true that the Conqueror forged a charter purporting to date from Canute in which the king's sole right to take beasts of chase was asserted, and to this he appealed as justifying his harsh new laws; but it is untrue that he depopulated and destroyed a thriving district to make a wilderness for the red deer.
Such a provision existed hi the constitution of the State of New York, adopted in 1846, and it was to invoke the protection of this clause that one Wynehamer, who had been indicted in 1855, carried his case to the Court of Appeals in the year 1856.
Divine goddess, behold, with all humility For money I appeal unto thy deity; Which, in high honour of thy majesty, I mean to spend abroad most plentifully. TEN.
The following extracts are from the letters of Mr. John Whittaker, "A Lancashire Lad," one of the first writers whose appeals through the press drew serious attention to the great distress in Lancashire during the Cotton Famine.
It was more an appeal than a sermon, or even an address.
This question usually arose in connection with some particular law case, and thus came before the courts for settlement,first before the courts of the colony; afterwards it might sometimes be carried on appeal before the Privy Council in England.
The Maryland Court of Appeals at the December term 1813 (see case of Stewart vs. Oakes,) decided that a slave owned in Maryland, and sent by his master into Virginia to work at different periods, making one year in the whole, became free, being emancipated by the law of Virginia quoted above.
Complaints and appeals without number were laid at the foot of the imperial throne.
He looked into her face, moved by the girlishness and appeal about the red, wistful mouth and the dark, brimming eyes.
The Earl then began to bluster and to attempt to appeal beyond the Pope; he even dared to place armed men at the Priory gate and to stop all communications with Cluny.
And if a priesthood should arise hereafter, whose calling was to teach not religion but irreligion, not the good news that there is a good God, and that we can know Him; but the bad news that there is no God, or, if there is, we cannot know Him; then would that priesthood find it necessary to appeal like all other priesthoods, to the women, and to teach them how to teach their children.
One knows the situation in fictionthe desperate girl appealing out of her misery to the Christian priest for help.
Mr. J.W.C. FEGAN, of the Boys' Home, Southwark, the writer of the pleasant pamphlet entitled Camping Out, makes appeal towards the expenses of giving "a fortnight's holiday under canvasby the sea, if possible"to the waifs and strays in Mr. FEGAN'S Homes.