Which preposition to use with blanked
I am not aware that the investigators from whom I have borrowed this history have endeavoured to ascertain whether their monads take solid nutriment or not; so that though they help us very much to fill up the blanks in the history of my Heteromita, their observations throw no light on the problem we are trying to solveIs it an animal or is it a plant?
" Stoddard looked a bit blank for an instant.
She went to the little Italian cabinet which stood against the wall, feeling now at least that she could do as she would,that here there was no blank of human unconsciousness to stand in her way.
Leveling my weapon, I fired point-blank at itfilling the room with a deafening bang.
The ensuing hours of the evening and the night were a merciful blank to Mr. Dawson.
They were blank as unlighted charcoal.
The debate having closed, during which nothing more was done than filling up the blanks with the time when the bill was to begin to operate, the committee was adjourned.
Ceres candidly admitted that her mind was a complete blank on the subject of the Eleusinian mysteries.
But if the servant dies under his hand, then the unfitness of the instrument, instead of being evidence in his favor, is point blank against him; for, to strike him with a rod until he dies, argues a great many blows laid on with great violence, and this kept up to the death-gasp, establishes the point of intent to kill.
And with the glad year I would go, The troops of daisies round my feet; Flying the kite, or, in the glow Of arching summer heat, Outstretched in fear upon the bank, Lest gazing up on awful space, I should fall down into the blank From off the round world's face.
Impossible was not a word that had been often said to be in her life; and to come out of a world in which everything could be changed, everything communicated in the twinkling of an eye, and find a dead blank before her and around her, through which not a word could go, was more terrible than can be said in words.
He is in the observation of Time, a calendar of experience; but in the power of action, he is a blank among lots.
" "If I fail," answered Mershone, slowly, "I do not care a continental what they do to me, for my life will be a blank without Louise.
All blank, blank around me, a prison!
I could make no replyindeed I heard no morethere was a blank between his blessing and the time when I found myself crossing the common, near the place of execution.
The gigantic black cliff that shuts off the west stood blank into the heaven like a great door: to the east lay the ghostly fading coast-line of Aloopka.
Marriage is called a lottery, and it is thought, like all other lotteries, there are more blanks than prizes; yet is it not made more precarious than it ought to be, by our neglect of that degree of precaution which we would be ridiculed for omitting in conducting our every-day concerns?
But more will wonder at so short an age, To find a blank beyond the thirtieth page; And with a pious fear begin to doubt The piece imperfect, and the rest torn out.
In the chronological lists of his poems, published in 1815 and 1820, Wordsworth left a blank opposite this one, in the column containing the year of composition.
He waved the duplicate entry blanks above his head.
Instead of mother's love-lit eyes, The church's storied pane, All blank beneath cold starry skies, Or sounding in the rain.
When the corporal leaves the ranks to lead his squad, his rear rank man steps into the front rank, and the file remains blank until the corporal returns to his place in ranks, when his rear rank man steps back into the rear rank.
In the dedication of this novel he left a blank after the word Doctor, which may probably be supplied with the name of Armstrong.
The revealing a long-treasured secret, the laying bare feelings of the heart, which have so long been concealed, even to our dearest friends, does not always produce happiness; there is a blank within us, a yearning after something we know not what, and the spirit loses for a time its elasticity.
"But even a blank like that can become unendurable.