Which preposition to use with description
Even though the Chambers were not sitting, every description of political intrigue was going on.
'Such a set of pusillanimous wretches never were collected' is his own description in a despairing letter to his wife.
As I slept the other night, neither dreaming nor holding psychological intercourse of any description with outsiders, I was awakened suddenly about the first hour of the morning by a noise.
He knew I was a" Hill hesitated at referring to himself as an ex-convict, though he had not shrunk from the description by Inspector Chippenfield.
The Gospel for this day describes them to us; and we may look on that description as complete, for He who gives it is none other than our Lord Himself.
One heard afterward that several letters of that description from French diplomatists in Germany were found unopened in a drawer at the ministry.
And calling in one of his sub-inspectors, he gave him instructions for the immediate circulation of the description to all the police-stations in the county, saying the two men were wanted on a charge of willful murder.
He differs, however, in one respect, from every other, in saying that her hair was YELLOW; but considering the curiosity which this young lady has excited, perhaps it may be as well to transcribe his description at length, especially as he appears to have taken some pains on it, and more particularly as her destiny seems at present to promise that the interest for her is likely to be revived by another unhappy English connection.
" "If you mean that very complimentary description for me," said Gray with sudden seriousness, "I will say to you here and now that there is no preacher in me.
, it appears most strikingly wavereda description on the air of every curve with lightning-like rapidity.
" We cannot better conclude our description than with a sketch from Sir Richard Phillips's "Morning's Walk to Kew."
He took another of the same description out of another pocket.
There is no decoration of any description about it, and if the gas pipes running along the side walls had not a slight Hogarthian line of beauty touch in their form, everything would look absolutely horizontal and perpendicular.
It is not credible that he would have undertaken to "cut off" Lee's whole army; and, if he designed a movement of that description against any portion of the Southern army which might be detached, the opportunity was certainly presented to him by Lee, when Jackson was left, as will be seen, at Millwood.
In addition to these occurrences, which were moreover succeeded by others of the same description during the month, the anger of the King was excited by a discovery which he made of the infidelity of Madame de Moret.
She had been so busy in packing baking powder, tobacco, currants, and things of that description into a box for the fisher from Long Island Sound that she had not heard the approach of Jervis Ferrars, who wore list slippers, and so made but little noise in walking.
As these complications are equally common to sub-horny quittor, we shall reserve their description until dealing with that condition.
The first is his excessive imagination, which made good stories out of incidents that ordinarily pass unnoticed, and which described the commonest thingsa street, a shop, a fog, a lamp-post, a stagecoachwith a wealth of detail and of romantic suggestion that makes many of his descriptions like lyric poems.
The only applicable portion of Article 12 says: "The Portuguese Government engages to permit and to facilitate transit for all persons and goods of every description over the water-ways of the Zambezi, the Shiré, the Pungwe, the Busi, the Limpopo, the Sabi and their tributaries; and also over the land ways which supply means of communication where these rivers are not navigable.
" He stepped to the door and found himself gazing into a well-arranged roomelectric generator, storage batteries in rows and instruments of every description along the walls and the floor.
There was some delay in getting the description, and my recollection is that Langford brought me the description after consultation with Professor Hayden.
In this same shop in Regent Street, of which I have been speaking, we submitted to several petty annoyances of this description without complaint, the last and pettiest of which was when Mrs. Jimmie, being captivated by an exquisite hundred-guinea gown of pale gray, embroidered in pink silk roses, and veiled with black Chantilly lace, bought it and ordered it altered to her figure.
Beginning, &c. It is therefore ordered and determined that a road be and the same is hereby laid out (or altered) and established according to the description last aforesaid, and it is hereby declared to be a public highway, four rods wide, the said description above given being the center of said road.
The Commander-in-Chief was deeply anxious that there should be no fighting of any description near the Holy Places, and he gave the Turks a chance of being chivalrous and of accepting the inevitable.