Which preposition to use with matter
The matter will probably continue to be decided by every one according to his view of Seneca's character and abilities: in the matters of style and of sentiment much may be said on both sides.
My sister moves to fondle him; but I detain her, and explain that I think it will be better not to go too near him for a few days; as it is impossible to tell what may be the matter with him; and it is well to be cautious.
W.'s ministry came to an end on the famous 16th of May, 1877, when Marshal MacMahon suddenly took matters in his own hands and dismissed his cabinet presided over by M. Jules Simon.
We leave the matter to individual discretion.
You must contrive to get Lady Studley out of the way, either this morning or afternoon, and so manage matters for me that I can be some little time alone in your room.
I finally compromised the matter by agreeing to divide my time between the Union Club, the Brevoort House, and Ned Buntline's quarters.
I ask you not to look upon this matter as a personal affair, either of mine or of any of the other prefects, but to consider only the welfare of the school.
In analyzing you should select as your topic a process fairly obscure, the implications of a certain statement or argument, the results to be expected from some action or policy that has been advocated, or the exact matter at issue between two disputants.
" "Very good," said Martin, with imperturbable gravity; "I only wanted a fair understanding of the matter on the start.
I honor your cunning, signor, but if you are indeed a gentleman, as I have always heard, you will now withdraw and permit me to regard the matter from a standpoint other than my own.
When I got back I heard the story, and was black angry, so I took the matter into my own keeping.
Then, feeling easier, I resumed my coat, which I had laid aside, and proceeded to attend to one or two matters before returning to the tower.
If this be not ill Luck, the Devil's in'tBut Driver must bring matters about, that I may see this liberal Squire againBut here comes my Noddy, I must pretend to be angry.
In the activities of this stage he probably assimilates more actual matter than at any other period of his life, and it is the same with his acquirements of skill.
After all, life was a matter between himself and the Lord Jesus.
This much I had noticed in my brief glimpse, and, truth to tell, I felt a good deal of uneasiness, besides curiosity as I turned the matter over in my mind.
He did not approve his step-father, but admitted that Cartwright could be trusted to handle a matter like this.
Neither can we think of matter without any force to work upon it, so that "force and matter mutually condition one another," we cannot think one without the other.
I suppose I acquired this bad habit from having been encouraged in an unusual degree to talk on matters beyond my age, and with grown persons, while I never had inculcated on me the usual respect for them.
The pressure and the friction excite the vessels of the part, and cause an absorption of the effused matter under the eyelash.
Nothing could be so bizarre in the world, that his cloudy, crotchety brain did not accept it, and make a commonplace matter out of it.
What I mean is, that unless by personal experience, no matter through what avenues, a man has gained clear insight into the facts of life, he cannot successfully place them before us; and whatever insight he has gained, be it of important or of unimportant facts, will be of value if truly reproduced.
"You'll have the same man tell you an entirely different story about the same matter within an hour.
No one had noticed the difference, and she had forgotten all about the matter until now.
"High glee and frolic," so notably appearing in the narrative that, in after days, some writers thought to turn this matter against John Wesley, remarking that he had himself been indulged by his mother at home in amusements which he was now prohibiting to the students under him at college.