Which preposition to use with detail
Slowly, the details of the nearer portions began to grow clear; then, in a moment almost, the light died away, and the visionif vision it werefaded and was gone.
From where I sat, I could see it over the trees; but it was not until it rose clear of them, that I could make out any of the details in the gardens below.
When he reached the place indicated he learned of Jack's detail to the extreme right of the army.
One hundred cavalry under command of Major Brown were detailed as an escort.
It is with feeling of intense satisfaction and self complacency, that Mr. PUNCHINELLO submits to his readers the following despatches relative to the Great Railroad War, which have been collected at a fabulous cost, by a large corps of reporters and correspondents specially detailed for the purpose.
In a little while, I had come so close to the House, as to be able to distinguish many of the details about it.
For students in college these rules are expounded in detail with additions, changes, exceptions.
(The Town Librarian of Meaux, from whose account I take these facts, heard these details from the lips of poor Madame Barthélemy herself.)
Rolfe looked steadily at the corpse for some time, impressing a picture of it in every detail on his mental retina.
For the Record theory was that nothing was news unless it was strange and startling, and the inevitable result was that the Record reporters endeavoured to make everything strange and startling, to play up the outré details at the expense of the rest of the story, and even, I fear, to invent such details when none existed.
Indeed, Jack's detail by Colonel Sherman had effectually cut off all trace of his movements after the battle began.
Madame Gilbert told to me the most intimate details without a blush, and if in my telling I startle the blood to the cheek of the very oldest of readers, the fault will rest with me.
After considerable experience I have decided that the best route for a man to take to the gold regions is from Seattle, Washington, to Juneau, Alaska, and then to Dawson City, by the pass and waterways, and I will therefore describe this route more in detail than any of the others.
The whole of me, it is true, was once examined before a Trial Justice; but as that was years ago, and it was "the other boy" that was to blame, I refrain from incorporating the details into the history of our country.
To an unusual degree, Thackeray dwells on the childhood and youth of the characters he depicts, lingering fondly and in details over the pranks and pastimes, the school and college days of his heroes and heroines, as though he wished to call especial attention to the interest of that portion of their career.
" The whole description may have been written with great rapidity, or with anxious and tentative labour: the memories of boyish days may have been kindled with a sudden illumination, or they may have grown slowly into the requisite distinctness, detail after detail emerging from the general obscurity, like the appearing stars at night.
His memory of these might yet retain sufficient details through which he could pretend to a knowledge much greater than he really possessed.
"I am obliged to put all these architectural details before you, though they may sound rather dry and uninteresting, but they are really necessary in order to make my argument clear.
Each exercise had to be performed a specific number of times with small details like opening, shutting and blinking of the eyes controlled to the finest degree.
"If you please, sir," said Jack, "I shall skip the details until later.
To such pleas this is not the place to give large room, or to discriminate in detail between the reasonable and unreasonable elements in the attacks on a system of education in which a preeminent position is allotted to the literature of antiquity.
It was not yet full day; what light filtered down here into this sheltered spot was cheerless; as it drew forest details out of the thinning shadows it seemed to be painting them in cold grey monotones upon a cold grey world.
For the full narrative the reader must have recourse to military histories aiming to chronicle the operations of each corps, division, and brigade in the two armiesa minuteness of detail beyond our scope, and probably not desired by those who will peruse these pages.
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The marriage of one such "compelled bridegroom" is related with a force and minuteness of detail throughout which not a word is thrown away: "Next at our altar stood a luckless pair, Brought by strong passions and a warrant there; By long rent cloak, hung loosely, strove the bride From every eye, what all perceived, to hide.