Which preposition to use with dents
A couple of feet to the right of the nearer end, was a great dent in the ground; showing where it had struck.
repeated Dent with a puzzled look.
It was in eight or a dozen pieces, and quite heavy, but was wonderfully carved and inlaid with silver, and there were dents on it that showed where a Saracen's scimetar had been dulled and many a brave knight's spear had struck.
"You'll see me do it to-night," he said, knocking the dents out of his hat"sweep all before me."
They were joined by William Dent of Marr, near Doncaster, with whom they were "sweetly united in the fellowship of the gospel;" and they returned to Scarborough with "grateful and peaceful hearts.
It seemed to have been, some day, a bed of mortar, but now baked hard, and the hoofs of the oxen dented into it
The exquisite lower one sprang forward, sharp and salient from the little dent above her innocent, rounded chin.
'I thought of these things sometimes, not often, I admit, in the little London lodging where I lived till my baby was born, seeing my gown in front getting shorter, and telling lies to good Mrs. Dent about the husband whom I said was abroad, whom I was expecting to return.
She enlarged upon this, praising Dent to the disparagement of her own grandson Victor, now in retreat from college on account of an injury received as centre-rush in his football team.
He said that Dent by all the laws of spiritual inheritance from his side should be wanting the timbrel and harpBiblical influence, you understand; but that my influence interfered and turned timbrel and harp into castanets.
She lacked imagination, or she might have thought of Dent as a filial sunflower, which turned the blossom of its life always faithfully and beautifully toward her, but stood rooted in the soil of knowledge that she could not supply.
The sheet had been turned down, the pillow dented for her face.
Particularly it required imagination to realize that this tower had ever been struck; visually more convincing was a plate elsewhere which had been left unpainted, showing a spatter of dents from shell-fragments.