Which preposition to use with articles
Ivory, gold, gems, precious stuffs, teak and cedar wood, Lebanon pine, apes, peacocks, sandal-wood, camel's hair, goat's hair, frankincense, pearl, dyes, myrrh, cassia, cinnamon, Balm of Gilead, calamus, spikenard, corn, ebony, figs, fir, olives, olive-wood, wheat, amber, copper, lead, tin, and precious stones were the chief articles of exchange.
His chief purpose is to buy as cheap, and to sell as dear, as he can; and he is often able to heighten the recommendations or soften the defects of some of the articles in which he deals, without danger of immediate detection; or, in other words, his representations have some influence with his customers.
Your article on the "Psychical Basis of Objective Existence" is excellent.
| | | | Striped Mongoline Silks (a Beautiful | | Article for Costumes), | | $1 per Yard, formerly $2 | | | |
The reader who studies the appendices will see that the Covenant of the League more nearly resembles the Articles of Confederation than the Constitution of 1787.
See Nash's Magazine for October, 1914, article by "Diplomatist.
Reference was made at the close of the last article to the voice of the dog, and his method of making his feelings and desires understood.
The princely merchant, in his counting-room, involuntarily experiences the softening, humanizing influence of the hour, and, in tones tremulous with unwonted emotion, privately directs his Chief-Clerk to tell all the other clerks, that, on this night of all the round year, they may, before leaving the store at 10 o'clock, take almost any article from that slightly damaged auction-stock down in the front cellar, at actual cost-price.
I have such a facility for beginning an article with a series of general remarks that have nothing whatever to do with the subject.
It is impossible for such large articles as a saw and a brace to be mislaid or lost on such small premises as these, and I trust that before this evening you will report to me that the things have been found.
They tell him that he must seek those articles at the druggist's, and he compromises by requesting that four lemons be forwarded to his residence.
So great is the habit among editors of cribbing from each other, that if one were to write an article about an egg another would immediately Poach it.
'If you were to go down on your knees,' I said, 'I could not find time to read up the flora of the West Indies and finish an article before morning.'
This certainly binds the office so long as no change takes place; but the addition of any stove, opening, or door through a party wall, the introduction of gunpowder, saltpetre, or other inflammable articles into the premises without notice, very properly "voids the policy."
Crewe's reply was that he had obtained these articles under a promise of secrecy from some one who had assured him that Mrs. Holymead had no connection with the crime.
"There's little to go on, Mr. Allerdyke," he said, pointing to one article after another.
Her passion for that work grew wonderfully, and might be accounted for by the fascination of perfect success; for her coronets and garlands and bouquets and baskets were arranged with so much lightness and elegance, and the different-colored shells were so tastefully combined, that they looked less like manufactured articles than like flowers that grew in the gardens of the Nereids.
I will distribute the pamphlet with your address, and then I will write another article against Husarski.
The most important portion of the document was that entitled "Suggested Draft of Articles for Discussion.
There are those, who, from principle, never wear the same under-garment but one day without washing, either in summer or winter; and there are others who, though they may wear an article without washing two or three successive days, take care to change their dress at nightnever sleeping in a garment which they have worn during the day.
Not the Westminster Confession of Faith, or the Saybrook Platform, I hope; one of which will certainly supersede the Thirty-nine Articles in all our churches, if this rebellion prosper.
If we are to believe on authority, why should we prefer the upstart dictation of the Lutheran Confession of Augsburg or the English Thirty- nine Articles to the venerable authority of the Church of Rome?
Independently of its invigorating influence on the constitution, porter exerts a marked and specific effect on the secretion of milk; more powerful in exciting an abundant supply of that fluid than any other article within the range of the physician's art; and, in cases of deficient quantity, is the most certain, speedy, and the healthiest means that can be employed to insure a quick and abundant flow.
Nevertheless I lingered, folding up a newspaper, and tearing an article out of a magazine by way of excuse; for it was not my object to be caught in a crowd and hustled, perhaps, by some clever wretches who might be lying in wait for what I had in my pocket.
In the Second Praxis, it is required of the pupilto distinguish and define the different parts of speech, and to explain the ARTICLES as definite or indefinite.