Which preposition to use with comrades
He knew that most of his comrades in the eleven would give him the cold shoulder, and so did not mingle with them inside the pavilion.
" "Oh, no, he can not; for it was only a few moments since that he said to Mrs. Atterbury that the son of Senator Sprague, the friend of Calhoun and the comrade of Hayne, should be in the ranks of the young nobility upholding our sacred cause.
When I arrived with my comrades at this point, our people were engaged in a hand-to-hand struggle with the savages, three score or more having succeeded in effecting an entrance, and it needed no experienced eye to say that unless the onrush could be speedily checked, the capture of the fort might be effected at a time when we had believed St. Leger was simply making a feint.
Sometimes one would pause to point me out to his comrades with a shout of derision at my miserable plight, or if by a change of posture I got outside the protection of my wall, would kick me back with a coarse injunction to keep out of the way.
" They followed their unfortunate comrade to his desk, which when opened displayed a perfect chaos of ragged books, loose sheets of paper, broken pen-holders, pieces of string, battered cardboard boxes, and other rubbish.
In christening their tiny puffing locomotives the Tommy drivers showed their strong appreciation of their comrades on the sea, and the 'Iron Duke' and 'Lion' were always tuned up to haul a maximum load.
He knew the awful pinch of life up here, and he thought no less of his comrades for asking that last service of getting them home.
Bruno had asked her not to wait for him at dinner, as he had resolved to stop his comrades from a wicked design and therefore would surely be a trifle late.
Why comes he not in battle's van His country's chief to be? To stand a comrade by my side, The sharer of my fame, And worthy of a brother's pride And of a brother's name? "But it is past!
Then, when Dan hurriedly rejoined him, Darrin passed the sheet over to his comrade as to one who would know exactly what to do with it.
Just as he is about to drag the comrade into the zone of safety, a bullet pierces his lung.
Man's activity, like the cod's, turns too readily to slumber; he is much too fond of unconditioned ease; and so the Lord gives him a comrade like a catfish, to stimulate, rouse, and drive to creation, as a devil may.
The second wave passed over the bodies of their comrades without a moment's check and, moving through the wire smashed by our artillery, entered Umbrella Hill trenches and set about the Turks with their bayonets.
When his task was ended, Sir Hiresgas called his comrades about him.
THE RUNAWAY Or On the Road with a Circus THE BOYS OP BELLWOOD SCHOOL Or Frank Jordan's Triumph COMRADES OF THE SADDLE Or The Young Rough Riders of the Plains Copyright, 1910, by CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY COMRADES OF THE SADDLE Printed in U. S.
" I should have been glad to stay and see my comrades through to their departure; but there was a Massachusetts man down at Fortress Monroe, Butler by name,has any one heard of him?and to this gentleman it chanced that I was to report myself.
He had followed the path taken by Jack and his comrades across the flank of the enemy.
on a wire of a German entanglement barely suggests the hell the Scotch troops have gone through" "Captain John Lauder and Comrades Before the Trenches in France" "Make us laugh again, Harry!'
* One evening at mess, when the sector appeared quiet enough to permit of rest, Rogers was talking to some comrades before the door of the dugout.
" AN ADVICE SHE GAVE "One time some great king or lord sent for the Goban to build a caislean for him, and the son's wife said to him before he went 'Be always great with the women of the house, and always have a comrade among them.'
It would have been folly for the besieged to do other than beat a retreat, when it could be seen that General Herkimer's men were not in a position to take advantage of the sortie, and as soon as might be the brave fellows sought the shelter of the fort once more, leaving twenty of their comrades between the lines as victims of the mutiny among the Tryon County militiamen.
He opened his lips to say he knew not what, when his ear caught the voice of Manuel Mazaro, replying to the greeting of some of his comrades outside the front door.
Not a child scampered under the trees or chased a comrade round the Petit Guignol.
These were now more like old comrades than mere private soldiers under his orders.
Before starting, Morgan had exacted from each of his comrades an oath in which he vowed to defend himself and his comrades against the Spaniards, even to the last drop of his blood, and never under any circumstances to beg for quarter.