Which preposition to use with messages
Every once in a while one of us would snatch a glance to leeward at the cruel, white waters, the whirl of eddies where the sea was beaten, only to hurry back to the rock and the point of the cliff whence our message of safety or destruction was to be flung.
Waiters bawl strange messages to the cook.
Colonel Stanton, who was with the Fifth Cavalry on this scout, had been sent to Red Cloud agency two days before, and that same evening a scout arrived bringing a message from him that eight hundred Cheyenne warriors had that day left the Red Cloud agency to join Sitting Bull's hostile forces in the Big Horn region.
He said, "No one can carry your message for you; that is not permitted.
When the straggling couriers reached the point designated as McDowell's headquarters, he had gone to the eastward of the line, and, faithful to the command given him, Jack set out with Barney, leaving the others to deliver the message in case he missed the general.
Two years later he refused to join other papers in receiving the Governor's message by telegraph from Albany, and was so badly beaten by his rivals in this instance that his paper was thenceforward one of the most generous patrons of the telegraph.
He is discovered, unknown to himself, in his slummy retreat by Bredwel, Sir Cautious' prentice, who has to convey him a message with reference to the expiration of the mortgage, and who reveals the secret to Lady Fulbank.
On September 27, 1918, just on the eve of the armistice, when German resistance was already shaken almost to breaking point, President Wilson gave it the coup de grâce by his message on the post-bellum economic settlement.
"When the lines are not engaged after business hours, you can send a night-letter; a long message at less than the proper charge.
When his foot touched the ice we danced in circles of joy, and tapped messages through to him with our fingers.
But now insistently it bore a message to her, such a message as from now on she would hear in the quiet voices of her little camp-fire.
As he lies in his cot at midnight, he will expound the passing message without striking a light to see it.
Ida wondered why he had been to the Hall, but concluded that he had gone there with some message about the farm produce.
And we carry messages between him and the Tidewater, for he has many friends still alive there.
The Indians, too, had their own silent tongue, by which they could send messages over many leagues in a short space.
" He slipped the message into its envelope and handed it back to me.
Then, when maybe the half of our watch had passed, the big seaman, who had been to feed the fires upon the weed side of the hill-top, came across to me, and bade me come and put my hand upon the lesser rope; for that he thought they in the ship were anxious to haul it in so that they might send some message across to us.
What kind of Indian sends a message like that?
"Now the heavens be praised!" said the honest soul,"what for can that icy lady want to see old Chloe?" I had carried the message under cover of one from my own heart.
And oft did I make to instruct her that never should she be tempted forth from the shelter of that Redoubt in which she did live, by any message out of the night; but always to await the Master-Word; and, moreover, to have a sure knowledge that none that was her Friend would ever seek to entice her into the night.
And he called thither also Rama the "Gondhali," master of occult ceremonies, Vishram, his disciple, and Krishna the "Bhagat" or medium, who is beloved of the ghosts of the departed and often bears their messages unto the living.
[Footnote A: See the Messages of the Governors of New-York and Connecticut, the resolutions of the New-York Legislature, and the bill introduced into the Legislature of Rhode Island.]
Mr. Heatherbloom gazed at an empty window where he had last seen her (had they been there only twenty-four hours?), then he took a bit of painting on ivory from his pocket and wrapped the message around it.
Some brokers in Wall-street average from six to ten messages per day throughout the year.
I think Inman will give us another message before opening the ball, so you may rest easy until he makes his next move.