Which preposition to use with ninth
On the twenty-ninth of August the battleship fleet returned to the familiar waters around Annapolis.
FEUDALISM: ITS FRANKISH BIRTH AND ENGLISH DEVELOPMENT NINTH TO TWELFTH
In order to deceive the enemy by showing them only three legionsthe only number they were willing to fighthe placed the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth in one line; while the baggage, which was not very considerable, was placed behind under the protection of the Eleventh legion, which closed the march.
Conington sanely decides that only one eviction took place, and he places the ninth before the first in order of time.
"It was about ninth down the list yesterday afternoon," he mused, softly.
The ninth for repairing and keeping in repair the road between Columbia, on Duck River, in Tennessee, and Madisonville, in Louisiana, and also the road between Fort Hawkins, in Georgia, and Fort Stoddard (April 27, 1816, p. 104 of the acts of that year).
LXXXIX.Caesar, observing his former custom, had placed the tenth legion on the right, the ninth on the left, although it was very much weakened by the battles at Dyrrachium.
Some say that the number of slices should be nine, that you should eat the first eight yourself, and only throw the ninth over your left shoulder for your husband; also that at each slice you should say, "In the name of the Father and the Son." Again, take an egg, prick it with a pin, and let the white drop into a wine-glass nearly full of water.
So far as American commerce is concerned, it ranks only ninth among the fifteen Cuban ports of entry.
The Palmettos of South Carolina, and the Ninth under Ransom, were as severely cut up; and after a while all sought shelter in and about a large barn near the causeway.
Ancient commentators, following the order of precedence, interpreted the ninth as an indication of a second eviction, but there seems to be no sound reason for agreeing with them, since they are entirely too literal in their inferences.
Those used by the Second Regiment at West Roxbury, and the Ninth at Long Island, (in Boston Harbor,) were twelve and a half feet long, eight feet wide, and six feet high to the ridge, and held twelve men.