Which preposition to use with figured
Over against this vague and changing self, there stands out the figure of the changeless Christ, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.
It was an interesting group of men that stood around the little figure in the drawing-room after dinner.
The piece of apparatus is less abstract only in degree than the figures on the blackboard, because neither represents real life or its problems: in abstract working we are merely going off at a side issue for the sake of practice, to make us more competent to deal with the economic affairs of life.
Men have been burnt at the stake and tortured, and limbs have been stretched on the rack, and people have been maimed by thumbscrews and bootscrews, and put inside iron figures with nails that tear and pierce.
Other villagers suffered mere bruises, but all who engaged in the fight posed as heroes and even Peggy McNutt, who figured as "not present," told marvelous tales of how he had worsted seven mill hands in a stand-up fight, using only his invincible fists.
The room was but dimly illuminated by the moonlight; most of the light being blotted out by moving figures at the window.
He drew his powerful figure to its height and spread his thick arms out in the luxury of stretching.
I remember thinking that, what with his high cheek-bones, and lank black hair, and brooding eyes, and great muscular frame, Scotland could scarcely have furnished a wilder figure for the admiration of the Carolinas, or wherever he went to.
" So, when they had caught their breath again, together they arose and, coming to the cave beneath the steep, they re-made the fire and set the pot thereon; which done, Roger brought forth his lord's armour, bright and newly polished, and in a while Beltane stood, a shining figure from golden spur to gleaming bascinet.
Several times, I saw the moonlight gleam on running, white figures among the bushes, and, twice, I fired.
The text and the drift of the sermon I have forgotten, save the little fragment that fixed itself in my memory by the singularity of the figure by which he illustrated his meaning.
The electric lights which it was Judge Hildreth's fancy to have ablaze in every room downstairs until the central current was shut off, still gleamed steadily upon the rigid figure before the desk, with the white, drawn face and the awful look of horror in its staring eyes.
A "concrete form" she imagined might allude to the fact that Miss Sessions had a better figure than she.
A war spectacular show filled with sure-fire patriotic lines, a bunch of show-girl battalions, and a figure like Alma Zitelle's for the Goddess of Libertya world of money, I tell you!" "Honest, Harry?" "That trench scene they built for that show is as fine a contrivance as I've ever seen of the kind.
'A Table of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians, distinguished by figures into six degrees of value, with notes, giving the reasons of preference or degradation.
Various passages could be cited to prove this; more especially Canto 1 of The Revolt of Islam, where the Spirit of Good is figured under the form of a serpent.
A puzzling man, but, at all events, cutting a poor figure beside Alec Naylor, about whom there could circle no clouds of doubt.
I had already joined the watch forward, aware only of the numerous dim, and shapeless figures about me, busily employed in straightening out the kinks in the heavy cable.
Near the door squats a figure without arms, who can scratch his head with his toes without altering his position, "What do you do for a living, Baba?"
Her looms stood where she could continually get the newcomer's figure against the light, with its swift motion, its supple curves, and the brave carriage of the well-formed head.
Street lights had come out, too, throwing up in ever darker relief the figure above the heads of the crowd.
Patsy walked up to him, and ignoring the big gold figures over the entrance she enquired: "Is this 3708 Willing Square?"
To get an epic design or figure through a sequence of small idylls need not be the result of mere technical curiosity.
He had turned his eyes towards the window so as not to see the ghostly figure behind the young man's chair which had such a world of reproach in its face.
Mrs. Angelica Kauffman, well apprised of this circumstance, has introduced no mortal figures amongst her Cupids and her Graces.