Which preposition to use with askes
Presently, Tonnison asked for the Manuscript: I handed it to him, and he spent most of the afternoon in reading it through by himself.
But if an authority must be produced, ask of the man who saw Drusilla translated to heaven: the same man will aver he saw Claudius on the road, dot and carry one.
Madame de MacMahon came up to me, saying: "Madame Waddington, Sa Majeste demande les nouvelles de M. Waddington," upon which His Majesty planted himself directly in front of me, so close that he almost touched me, and asked in a quick, abrupt manner, as if he were firing off a shot: "Ou est votre mari?"
Many times when we were living in England at the embassy, I was asked about him.
Morriston asked with some surprise.
she asked at length.
Did he ask after me?' 'Yes.' He looked at her again and said suspiciously: 'I suppose you didn't mention' 'Mention what?' 'Edith!' 'Yes?' He cleared his throat and then said with an effort of self-assertion that she thought at once ridiculous and touching: 'Look here, I don't wish to blame you in any way for whater arrangements you like to make in your own household.
I'm sure there are not many modern wives who expect to do anything on earth but have their bills and bridge debts paid, and their perpetual young men asked to dinner, and one thing and another.
Thus she walked warily, and dared ask from none directions or help.
Therefore, I ask as a personal favor, seein' that BARNUM sarved me same's he did old Plymouth Rock, that when this august assemblage of Fossilized human bein's comes down onto the mail portion of the U. States, old P.T. be turned over to us.
One thought occupied the minds of all, and even Mugford, when asked on one occasion by Mr. Blake who were the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot, answered absent-mindedly, "The Philistines!"
"Sure we'd better get a bite to ate while we may, as th' ass said when he passed th' market car, for who knows what'll happen if we stop to ask by your lave?"
What's he riding?" he asked without looking up.
They are no Anabaptists; if you ask under what horizon this climate lies, the Bermudas and it are both under one and the same height.
It's the only promise I ask out of it.
And what more can we ask than hope?
"At the expiration of that time we will consider the matter further; and if, as I anticipate, you are more anxious to divest yourself of the Papal dignity than you were to assume it, I promise to bestow upon you any boon you may ask within my power to grant, and not plainly inconsistent with religion or morals.
" "What sort of noise, sir?" inquired Mike, as many Wrykynians had asked before him.
"Why should I?" she asked through her tears.
she asked over her shoulder.
Besides, it isn't every one I'd care to ask into this dungeon of a room.
"Pardon, if I was impertinent; but I assure you the question is being asked amongst themselves by all the women in the house" Stafford stared at him and began to frown with perplexity rather than anger.
"Didn't I pitch into him, that's all?" says he in the elation of victory; and, when I asked whence the quarrel arose, he stoutly informed me that "Wolf Minor, his opponent, had been bullying a little boy, and that he, the gigantic Newcome, wouldn't stand it.
she asked like a child asking permission to run out and play.
And when he saughe hire gret feythe and hire trouthe, that was amonges hem, he seyde that he wolde not greven hem: and bad hem aske of him, what that they wolde have of hym, ricchesse or ony thing elles; and thei scholde have it with gode wille.