Which preposition to use with belongings
Come on, let's see if we can find some sort of a wagon to take us and our belongings to Cherry Corners.
We especially relied upon your customs department to search most thoroughly the belongings of every person with whom they were not personally acquainted.
The Major had not delayed his escape long enough to don his trousers even; he had grabbed his belongings in both arms and fled in his blue and white striped undergarments.
It was furnished in such excellent taste that one suspected Monsieur Lanyard must have brought in his own belongings on taking possession.
I believe you will find everything you want in the way of food and cooking materials, and you will, of course, take down your own personal belongings with you.
The moment they were seen and their shouts heard the women jumped up and began hastily packing the skins and all their belongings into bundles; and in less than ten minutes the whole company was mounted on horseback and ready for flight.
A sudden idea struck Andy, and he drew the handkerchief and its belongings from his pocket.
Time after time I saw famished fugitives pause at farmhouses and offer all of their pitifully few belongings for a loaf of bread; but the kind- hearted country-people, with tears streaming down their cheeks, could only shake their heads and tell them that they had long since given all their food away.
Reaching the foothills near C. Crozier, they ascended 800 feet, then packed their belongings over a moraine ridge and started to build a hut.
I'll show you my few belongings after tea.
You have all their belongings as a background to the picture of them which you have in your mind; and they look very little when you see them in fact, because you see them without these belongings.
What I want this morning is for you to see all there is in this chest; he seems to have had no other belongings than this and his clotheshere at Mrs. Moneylaws', at any rate.
Led by Frank, they managed to hustle their belongings under the second cover, where the driving rain could not reach them.
The oncoming Saints, therefore, who were not able to pay their own way, were this summer, instead of riding in ox-carts, to walk across the plains and mountains, and push their belongings before them in hand-carts.
And somehow you feel, that, when you make the acquaintance of a new friend some hundreds of miles off, who never saw your home and your family, you present yourself before him only a twentieth part or so of what you feel yourself to be when you have all your belongings about you.
I went to it, and laying my knapsack and other belongings beside me, I sat down to rest.
We were pleased to find how friendly the villagers were inclined to be, and that there was no evidence of their having ventured to meddle with our belongings during our absences.
We must also get a search warrant and examine her belongings at that private hotel you've told us of, Mr. Appleyard.
" The Sicilian said nothing, but proceeded to arrange all the invalid's small belongings near him,his books, his cigarettes,for he sometimes smoked a little,and the stimulant he took, and a few wild flowers which Elettra renewed every morning.
They are inveterate burden-bearers, and they industriously cut into pieces and carry off any garment they can get at; and we had to guard our shoes and clothes from them, just as we had often had to guard all our belongings against the termites.