Which preposition to use with credit
But there are evils which bear heavily, too heavily, upon the women even of this country, and which, for the credit of the civilization of the age, should be corrected.
It may very likely have been true, but not more marked with him than with the generality of Anglo-Saxons and Northern races, who rather look down upon the Latins, hardly giving them credit for their splendid dash and pluckto say nothing of their brains.
I can tell you at present they don't look upon you as being a particular credit to the Sixth.
Finally, you stood on one leg and jounced the water from your ear, or pulled a bloodsucker from your toes before he sapped your lifefor this tiny creature of the rocks was credited with the gift of prodigious inflation, and might inhale you, blood, sinews, suspenders and all, if left to his ugly purpose.
And ten thousand dollars to my credit in the bank!
The Northern and Western merchants were counting down their money for rice, cotton, and sugar, and giving long credits on the produce of the North and West.
Maillet, in his "Description de l'Egypt," tells us of a pigeon despatched from Aleppo to Scanderoon, which, mistaking its way, was absent for three days, and in that time had made an excursion to the island of Ceylon; a circumstance then deduced from finding green cloves in the bird's stomach, and credited at Aleppo.
"Nay, friends," said the bland gentleman, "such confession of error would impeach our credit as statesmen.
The House did itself credit by refusing one land-grab, out of a thousand or so submitted.
"I hope you will not regret having made this effort to aid us, and, if it so be an opportunity ever offers, I will see to it that, so far as is within my power, the Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley shall receive substantial credit from their country-men because of services rendered.
It proved to be not only a receipt, but a full statement of the facts of the case, without omitting the details of the robbery and the credit due the Record for the recovery of the diamonds.
Idleness is more willing to credit than inquire; cowardice is afraid of controversy, and vanity of answer; and he that writes merely for sale, is tempted to court purchasers by flattering the prejudices of the publick.
His regular army had almost disappeared, and much of his credit among the Arabs had departed.
I must give credit unto what I hear!
We shall, however, never arrive at such an arrangement until the Continental countries become convinced of two things: first, that the United States will grant no credits under any formula; secondly, that Germany, under the present system, will be unable to pay anything and will collapse, dragging down to ruin her conquerors.
The French Government may confiscate without granting any compensation the private property of Germans and of German concerns in Alsace-Lorraine, and the sums thus derived will be credited towards the partial settlement of eventual French claims (Art.
He now directed his inquiries to the mechanical doctrines of Aristotle, to whose authority the schools had long bowed down, and whom he too regarded as one of the great intellectual giants of the world, yet not to be credited without sufficient reasons.
Nothing but discipline and long training can carry men with credit through a campaign, in the open field.
Thereby the world was warned of the justice of his rage, and so he passed with credit into the street.
So in Europe, where there actually was war, the women tourists, with nothing but a worthless letter of credit between them and sleeping in a park, had every reason to be panic-stricken.
I quote it, too, from memory, so I trust that the length of time I have remembered it may be set to my credit against any verbal mistakes I make.
It was not the way to come with credit out of the threatened altercation about rent-collecting.
And, in turn, every member bank will now be able at such times to rediscount such paper and thus secure credit toward its reserve requirement on the books of its Federal reserve bank.
Unless this is done, they will have no credit during the year, and consequently a great effort is made to pay their creditors.
German officers were credited before the attack with saying that they would sacrifice 100,000 men, if necessary, to take Antwerp.