Which preposition to use with employed
I have upwards of thirty strong men employed in ranging this plain and wood, and during the last year they took for me four hundred head.
It is supported and controlled by government, and has something of a religious and national character, being particularly employed for popular amusement in the celebration of religious festivals.
During the civil war he enlisted as a private, and became a scout with the Union army; since the war he has been employed as hunter, trapper, guide, scout and actor.
A 'grison' is a servant employed on some private business and so dressed in gray (gris) or a dark colour not to attract notice.
" The amende was so sweetly made that even Lydia Sessions, still exceedingly employed at being pictorially chagrined over the depravity of her neophyte, could but be appeased.
the Lecompton LegislatureI Enter the Employ of William RussellHerding CattleA Plot to Blow Up our HouseA Drunken Missourian on the War-Path.
For while it is true our heroes and heroines in fiction no longer fall in love at first sight, Nature, you must remember, is too busily employed with other matters to have much time to profit by current literature.
As far as any military forecast could be made we were now in an impenetrable position whatever force the Turk, with his poor communications, could employ against us either from the direction of Nablus or from the east of the Jordan.
Miss Lydia did not invite the young men employed about the mill, not having as yet undertaken their uplifting; and feeling quite inadequate to cope with the relations between them and the mill girls, which would be something vital and genuine, and as such, quite foreignif not inimicalto her enterprise.
The word had various meanings assigned to it by early Christian writers, but the title, Breviary, as it is employed to-daythat is, a book containing the entire canonical officeappears to date from the eleventh century.
This is the Self-contemplation of Spirit employed from the individual standpoint for the generating of power.
The "receipt," so called, was the formula of magic words to be employed during the process.
"Youths employed under Government, on the railways or in mercantile houses, who have received with the secular education which has secured their positions, a thorough knowledge of the Bible as its condition, continually greet her after they have quite outgrown her recollection."
Animal food is eaten on Mars; but the flesh of birds and fish is much more largely employed than that of quadrupeds, and eggs and milk enter into the cuisine far more extensively than either.
As a preventive, where there is a tendency to disease, the warm bath may be employed without scruple, and will be found most serviceable.
This was a boy by the name of Percy Shelley Carberry, rather a bold fellow too, and as smart as they make them, only unscrupulous as to the means he employed by which to gain his ends.
But there has never been any question of employer or employed between Mr. Zola and me.
While the general was thus busily employed among the Carthaginians, and the captains of the respective nations among their countrymen, most of them employing interpreters among troops intermixed with those of different nations, the trumpets and cornets of the Romans sounded; and such a clamor arose that the elephants, especially those in the left wing, turned round upon their own party, the Moors and Numidians.
As it is only the stock held in the States and not that employed within them which would be subject to taxation, and as the names of foreign stockholders are not to be reported to the treasurers of the States, it is obvious that the stock held by them will be exempt from this burden.
She had been obliged to explain in some way Mr. Heatherbloom's presence, and the subterfuge he had himself employed toward her on the Nevski had been the only one that occurred to her.
The deficiency must be made up by artificial food, which must be of a kind generally employed before the sixth month, and given through the bottle.
They had seldom called Osborn father, but chief and head of the clan, and she thought it significant that Gerald used the name he often falteringly employed after boyish escapades.
[Footnote 62: The name consul, although used by Livy (Bk. I, ch. Ix), was not really employed until after the period of the decemvirs.
I think we may venture to say that he does indeed show somewhat conspicuously the way in which he uses the word 'impossible' and the kind of grounds on which that and such like terms are employed throughout his work.
He himself had been in Mr. Knopf's employ over fifteen years, and was his only indoor servant.