Which preposition to use with droped
But we see, that if one drop of water be united with another, they form one large drop, as spherical as either of the two which composed it: and on the separation of the moon from the earth, if they were composed of mingled solids and fluids, or if the solid parts rested on fluid, both the fragment and the remaining earth would assume the same globular appearance they now present.
The thought had of late dropped into the background.
By and by the scales drop from his eyes; he sees himself, not as one who has already achieved, but as one to whom the radiant gates of life are opening, so that he, too, can one day speak to human souls as the masters have done!
Instead of dropping to his place, he straddled the fire, stretching his arms over his head.
The brutes were running on their hind legsat times dropping on all fours.
"I awoke, and thought that a dose of 'dog-buttons,' or a taste of strychnine, administered with a tempting bit of cold steak, or a piece of fresh lamb, or a bone of mutton carefully dropped in his way, might have aided the operation.
A newspaper man named Slade, who dropped out of the world about the same time, is supposed to have gone along, too.
I dropped at once to the ratlines, and commenced my descent.
Then drop by the tablespoonful into boiling salted water until they rise to the surface.
To the West, I saw the sun, drop with an incredible, smooth, swift motion.
The German dropped like a log.
He dropped over the lower hills, and the voice of the gold town rose to him.
Presently I was on a steep hill-side, which I ascended only to drop through a tangle of screes and jumper to the mires of a great bog.
We dropped behind a point of willows, from the outer edge of which we would be in shooting distance.
She dropped for bird and beast forlorn
I dropped down the grapnel, and after a great many failures, I hooked into the string of the powder horn, and hoisted away.
It fell on to a blade of yellow grass and ran down the blade, then stopped so as to gather itself into a little round drop before touching the ground.
I fired at his heart and he dropped beside the desk, I didn't wait for anything moreI bolted.
He sprang up from it, wiped the drops off his forehead, and paced again.
It soon became evident that the matter was not to be allowed to drop without some show of feeling, for on the following morning the unfortunate official was greeted with jeers and uncomplimentary remarks wherever he went.
Ripe apples drop about my head.
The ball dropped between Merkle, Meyers and Mathewson.
One such drops below the plunging slope that the Kearsarge trail winds over, perilously, nearing the pass.
Sometimes one of the words was dropped as needless.
At length over-tasked nature drops under it, and escapes for a few hours into the society of the sweet silent creatures of dreams, which go away with mocks and mows at cockcrow.