Which preposition to use with hits
" "How did you happen to hit on her?" asked Barnett quickly.
"II'd sooner be hit in the face, Millie, thanhave this happen.
They fought indiscriminately, hitting at each other with fists and knives.
Charley boy better be making connections with headquarters or he won't find himself such a hit with the niftiest doll in town, eh?" "Charley, youyou haven't run through those thousands and thousands and thousands the papers said you got from your granny that time?
Meyers singled to left field, Fletcher doubled to right field, and Tesreau made his first hit of the series, a single to left field.
Gardner was put out by a combination play on the part of Mathewson, Doyle and Merkle, scoring Yerkes, and Stahl came through with a hard line hit for a base, which scored Speaker and Lewis.
Cady followed with another hit to the same place.
Lajoie got two hits off me, and I think George Stovall got a couple, but I shut them outand
The Command Post itself was proof against anything less than a direct hit from a pretty heavy shell.
Hooper, who batted with much success on the Polo Grounds, began with a single to center and although Yerkes was safe on Meyers' wild throw the Giants got out of a bad predicament handily because of the excellent stops which were made by Fletcher of hits by Speaker and Lewis.
The number of games in which pitchers escaped with less than four hits against them was smaller than usual, however.
In the first inning Snodgrass began with a clean two-base hit into the left field seats but neither Doyle, Becker nor Murray was able to help him across the plate.
She can't ever make a hit as a poem producer though 'cause she hasn't got high cheek bones and teeth like a squirrel.
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Wagner killed at least two safe hits over second base for New York and both of the plays were of the greatest benefit to the Boston team.
Do I hit about the same guess that you do, Frank?"
" "Who'd ha' thought 'e could ha' hit like that?" says Ginger.
The people to whom I spoke of it evidently regarded it as "hitting below the belt.
A few years more may see us with interstate legislation insuring the better care and protection of immigrants all over the country, interstate legislation being the curiously indirect method which the United States has hit upon to overcome the imperfections and deficiencies of its national instrument of government.
But Bull that they'd always looked down on for a big good-for-nothing hulkBull stepped out and took my trail on foot and hit across the mountains in a storm, above the timberline!
Twice he shot, the first time hitting within an inch of the wand, the second time splitting it fairly in the middle.
He could foretell whatever was By consequence to come to pass; As death of great men, alterations, Diseases, battles, inundations: All this without th' eclipse o' th' sun, Or dreadful comet, he hath done By inward light, a way as good, And easy to be understood: But with more lucky hit than those That use to make the stars depose As if they were consenting to All mischief in the world men do:
If you can hit without a Feint, make none, two Motions are more dangerous than one.
She called it foolish, and those people idots, who were taken with a lucky hit under such circumstances.
It is then the skilled driver looks wise and does not betray his surprise to the gaping crowd, just looks as if the start were the anticipated result of his well-directed efforts instead of a chance hit amidst blind gropings.