Which preposition to use with bouts
At another time and in a better place I would have liked a bout with him, for he has some notion of sword-play.
After a desperate bout of ineffectual pulling, the dogs with one mind stopped again, and lay down in their bloody tracks.
Willy shall be welcome to a mince-pie and a bout at commerce whenever he comes.
" "That may be," said the Tinker right sturdily, "but I am more deft than he, for did I not overcome Simon of Ely in a fair bout in the ring at Hertford Town?
Surely you would not forego a good bout for so small a matter?
They didn't have the Ku Klux but it was bout like it what they had.
The feast ended in drinking-bouts between dispersed bodies, who seemed to know the names of all the servants, and ordered as liberally as if in their own houses.
They had many little bouts after the one big quarrel.
"'Bout as common," replied the old woman.
This is but a very faint description of a true wrestling bout among the robust dwellers in these remote villages.
He had boils bout on him.
But of all this Augustus made no account; his daughter Julia, however, proved so dissolute that she held revels and drinking bouts by night in the Forum and on the very rostra.