Which preposition to use with compound
Is it best to go roundabout, or forward with such a nice compound of innocence, boldness and modesty as shall satisfy the beast?
Prithee, good Matron, Peace; I'll compound with thee.
Nay, now wou'd I compound for my Life, at any rate, by Fortune.
Mary soon began to visit the different yards or compounds in Duke Town.
The Anglo-Saxons, by the use of prefixes, formed ten compounds from their verb fl=owan, "to flow."
These two events were, by the subreasoning faculty, compounded into one, according to the established rulethat things which agree in their parts, also correspond as to the whole;hence the Pope's visit, was changed into a visit made to me.
The very tempest in my ears was compounded out of ships at sea and wreck and pillage.
The process of undergoing an effervescent change, as by the action of yeast; in a wider sense, the change of organized substances into new compounds by the action of a ferment.
The white-washed wooden house stood near the bank, with a stockaded compound between it and the water.
We may instance such a compound as =ar-ge-bland (=ar, "oar"; blendan, "to blend"), which conveys the idea of the companionship of the oar with the sea.
Words are compounded to a much greater extent than in ordinary prose writing.
He used to use it when a boy in catching birds by putting the briny compound on the tails of the same, and that he used to call "fun alive;" but he don't see itthe saltabout PUNCHINELLO.
It has been found possible to gradually range most carbon compounds under two categories, either as marsh-gas or as benzol derivatives, as fatty compounds or as aromatic compounds.
But after a tentative sip of the compound at hand, she decided that it must have been something elsedoubtless "a glass of sparkling wine."
That doesn't sound very kind, does it?" Johnnie's resolution, however, was not particularly remarkable; the verses, compounded during an attack of asthma, running as follows: AUGUSTUS JOHN CONFESSES TO LOSS OF APPETITE.
It is interesting as showing that German no more abhors Teuto-Latin or Teuto-Romance compounds than English.
[FORMULENot proper, because the word evilthinking, which has more than one accented syllable, is here compounded without the hyphen.