Which preposition to use with nods
" Darrow nodded to me and drew his principal aside.
"So you are back again, Mr. Henshaw," he said with a careless nod of greeting as they encountered in the hall of the hotel.
Then, with a smile and a nod, I left them, and all in the little crowd smiled and nodded in return, though their faces still betrayed their puzzlement.
"Oh, I'm leavin' the fox-face for luck," Dillon nodded at the Colonel.
"A man to see the manager," announced Miss Briggs, nodding toward a quiet figure seated on the "waiting bench.
He had passed through the village without exchanging more than a surly nod with the inhabitants and gone on toward the House.
On a nod from his superior officer he opened the ledger and took up Darrow's record.
He nodded towards the river as the travellers looked back.
was a remark that if he made it once he did a dozen times, always finding it greeted by answering nods on the part of his two companions.
" Mr. Fontaine nodded over his tea.
A POSITIVE NOD FOR ME, OR NOTHING!"]
Andrew nodded between coughs.
" Dan nodded without words.
I urge you to an April mood, for the winds of Spring are up and daffodils nod across the garden.
It will not stir for doctors, This pendulum of snow; The shopman importunes it, While cool, concernless No Nods from the gilded pointers, Nods from the seconds slim, Decades of arrogance between The dial life and him.
This attorney, who had, perhaps, never had a compensation case before, was quite a great man, and took the arbitrator's assenting nods as so much cash down.
Here gay description Egypt glads with showers, Or gives to Zembla fruits, to Barca flowers; Glittering with ice here hoary hills are seen, There painted valleys of eternal green; In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
Parker nodded, pursing his lips, and kept on nodding like a broken automatic toy.
Love is quenched; dreams drown in sleep; Ruin nods along the deep: Only thou immortally Hauntest on This poor earth in Time's flux caught; Hauntest on, pursued, unwon, Phantom child of memory, Beauteous one!
As Stafford returned to the billiard-room, Falconer nodded after him.
But a tall hedge interrupted his view, and, though he stared long and earnestly, all he could see that day was a pea-stick nodding above it.
I always make one of the Company I am in; for though I say little myself, my Attention to others, and those Nods of Approbation which I never bestow unmerited, sufficiently shew that I am among them.
" There must have been a good deal of sympathy between Dab and his mother; for by and by, just as she began to feel drowsy, and muttered, "Well, well, we'll have a talk about it to-morrow," Dab found himself nodding against the window-frame, and slowly rose from his chair, remarking, "Guess I might as well finish that dream in bed.
See how the wheat-sheaves nod amid the plumes!
After the grass was mown, and that field was always left till the last for her sake, she used to sit there and wait for Queen Anne's lace to come up; its tall stems and delicate white wheels nodding among the grasses.