Which preposition to use with deals
He said a great deal of the majesty of the gods, and how the honour ought not to be given away to every Tom, Dick, or Harry.
The Crown Prince and Princess were just opposite, and the Princess talked a great deal with me across the table, always in English."
I had lived a great deal in Rome, as a girl, during the last days of Pius IX, and I was never in Paris during the Empire.
He talked politics, and a good deal about pictures with some artists who were present.
"It is something to me," he replied insistently, "because it means a great deal to you.
I have nerves, so much so, do you know (partly because I go in a good deal for music and intellect and so on), so much so, that I very nearly had a rest cure at the end of last season, and I should have had, probably, but that new young French singer came over with a letter of introduction to me, and of course I couldn't desert him, but had to do my very best.
He had been a great deal at the court of Napoleon III, had seen many interesting people of all kinds, and had a wonderful memory.
"When our goverment resooms speshie payment agin maybe I'le send you a silver dollar with a hole into it, and maybe I won't; it will depend a good deal on the pertater crop.
This is a good deal like a threat.
I learned a great deal from merely listening while the men talked at dinner.
Italian Field Artillery were in position all around us, and were firing a good deal by night.
My God! man, can't you see it's your own country that must suffer for such deals as this wheat-burning to-night?" "The hell you say!"
"White men have got a great deal out of Alaska and as yet done little but harm here.
Naturally piqued by this want of faith, I have thought a good deal over the matter; and, as I still rest in the lame conclusion I originally expressed, and must even now confess that I cannot certainly say whether this creature is an animal or a plant, I think it may be well to state the grounds of my hesitation at length.
But it was my luck to see a good deal during that time.
Yet, I was very greatly puzzled to know where they had gotten a sufficiency of timber to make so large a matter; but upon this point she satisfied me by explaining that they had taken up the 'tween decks, and used all such bulkheads as they could spare, and, further, that there had been a good deal among the dunnage which had proved usable.
"I arrange private sales a good deal between European sellers and American buyerspictures, curiosities, jewels, antiques, and so on.
I feel a good deal towards you as a nabor of mine, named JOE BELCHER, once did.
He goes a great deal into society, and conducts commercial operations.
" The factions shifted a good deal after this official rendering of the affair.
It'll have to deal through some firm in Benton as a clearin' house.
No doubt, but for his fickleness and inconsistency, Henry could have done a good deal toward realizing such ideas and reforming European politics; but it is saying too much for Henry's influence on the popular opinions of Europe, to affirm, what Michélet gives us to understand, that he could have combined the nations of Europe against all their depraved rulers together.
A good deal against his own inclination Darrin allowed himself to be coaxed into the thing.
Again, in the case of anonymous journalism I seem to have said a great deal without getting out the point very clearly.
And some of them would see a person a good deal beyond the ether side of Jordan before they would think of handing him a Prayer Book.