Which preposition to use with engagements
The Sioux Campaign of 1876I am appointed Guide and Chief of Scouts of the Fifth CavalryAn Engagement with eight hundred CheyennesA Duel with Yellow HandGenerals Terry and Crook meet, and cooperate Together.
At the last meeting of my ward and your nephewjust before your dinner here,they concluded to break their engagement of marriage, for certain good reasons, and thenceforth be only brother and sister to each other.
Her brother apologized for her absence, saying she had been obliged to keep an engagement to lunch with a friend, but that she had promised to return quite early in the afternoon.
I had an engagement in the lower town, and had only twenty minutes in which to keep it.
Theatrical managers, upon hearing of this new and novel combination; which was drawing such tremendous houses, were all anxious to secure us; and we received offers of engagements at all the leading theaters.
What you have told me, Mr. DIBBLE, concerning the breaking of the engagement between your ward and my nephew, relieves my mind of a load.
He had an important business engagement for the next day, Wednesday, which he failed to keep, and this may mean a considerable loss to him.
In 1836 the Arab leader, now Sultan, again fought the invaders in several severe engagements on the Tafna River.
During my engagement as hunter for the companya period of less than eighteen mouthsI killed 4,280 buffaloes; and I had many exciting adventures with the Indians, as well as hair-breadth escapes, some of which are well worth relating.
Then lifting the flowersSir Harry's rosesto her face for a moment, she dropped a demure courtesy and said, with a gleam of fun in her eyes, "If Sir Harry finds that it is necessary for him to recall his friends and engagements by memorandum notes, he certainly cannot expect an untutored provincial maid, who carries no such orderly appliance about with her, to charge her mind unaided.
At Herculaneum, it is true, the consul had two regular engagements without any decisive advantage on either side, and with greater loss on his side than on that of the enemy; but afterwards, encamping on the spot, he shut them up within their works.
I ought perhaps to explain that I was prevented by other engagements from beginning seriously to work upon the subject until the latter end of December in last year.
According to fabulous history, he made it his war-horse, in all his engagements against the Demons.]
Fulfil unto these their engagements until the expiration of their terms; for God loveth the pious.
Burkhard of Swabia, who had asserted his independence, and who was at that time carrying on a bitter feud with Rudolph, King of Burgundy, whom he had defeated, in 919, in a bloody engagement near Winterthur, was the first against whom he directed the united forces of the empire, in whose name he, at the same time, offered him peace and pardon.
We are fully persuaded that the Legislature of the United States will cheerfully enable you to realize your assurances of performing on our part all engagements under our treaties with punctuality and the most scrupulous good faith.
These potent nobles were, from the danger of the precedent, averse to the execution of the laws of forfeiture and felony against any of their fellows; though they could not, with a good grace, refuse to concur in obliging them to fulfil any voluntary contract and engagement into which they had entered.
"Owing to doctor's orders Mrs. has been obliged to cancel all her engagements during Baby Week.
The war which was ended by the Peace of Ryswick in 1697 presents two features of exceptional interest: one was the havoc wrought on English commerce by the enemy; the other was Torrington's conduct at and after the engagement off Beachy Head.
" "An engagement after dinner!
THE FIGHTING OUTSIDE ANTWERP Early on Tuesday morning, October 6, one of the fiercest of the engagements outside Antwerp ended with the crossing of the River Nethe by the Germans and their approach to the inner forts.
Even superstition, though more prevalent among ignorant nations, is but a poor supply for the defects in knowledge and education: our European ancestors, who employed every moment the expedient of swearing on extraordinary crosses and relics, were less honourable in all engagements than their posterity, who, from experience, have omitted those ineffectual securities.
" THE BATTLE AT CHABLEROI The loss of life in the Franco-German battle near Charleroi was admittedly the greatest of any engagement up to that time.
In the terrible battle of Ypres in Flanders, following the prolonged engagements along the Yser river, the Allies succeeded in repulsing the desperate German onslaught, and the German offensive was brought to a full stop.
He gave her £100 and sent her to London with her old nurse to look after her, saying that if she really "meant business" she would find an engagement before the £100 was gone.