Which preposition to use with clem
It was said that their final disagreement hinged upon a matter of thirty odd dollars earned by Clem in a Cincinnati restaurant and confided later to the Colonel's too thorough keeping.
His earthly home, now long vacant, had been rented by Clem for a monthly sum not particularly cheap in view of its surprising limitations above stairs.
Apparently, fate had never made a wilder, more purposeless cast than when it brought Clem to Little Arcady with Potts.
I was sure indeed that Miss Caroline had defined these limitations of Clem as a financier.
I resolved, nevertheless, to take Clem under my own roofthere was a small unused room almost directly under itthe moment Miss Caroline's impatience with him should move her to the extremes foretold by her abusive fashion of speech.
It was aware only that Miss Caroline treated Clem with a despotic severity, issuing commands to him as from a throne of power and in tones of acrid authority that were the envy of all housekeepers among us who kept "hired girls.
There's a brother o' mine lives with us,he'd a been clemmed into th' grave but for th' relief; an' aw've been many a time an' hesn't put a bit i' my meawth fro mornin' to mornin' again.
* C.K.S. AND U.S.A. The news that our own and only C.K.S.the "Great Clem of Literature," and the "Wee Cham of Literature," as he is alternatively and affectionately known to the members of the Johnson Clubwas on his way to America aroused the liveliest excitement among our fellow-war-winners, and preparations on a grand scale were made for his reception.
And to my never-ending wonder she seemed still to be more concerned about Clem than about her daughter.