Which preposition to use with openings
And there seated in the opening of our little tent, I began the strange tale of The House on the Borderland (for such was the title of the MS.); this is told in the following pages.
They consisted of openings in the wall, sloping so much upwards, that while they freely admitted the light and air, the sun was completely excluded: and although those who were within could readily see what was passing in the streets, they were concealed from the gaze of the curious.
The Church fails to see openings for aggressive work; it fails to seize strategic points; it does not carry a well-knit local organization, with a husbanding of economic force; it does not front the world in dead-earnest; it is not proud and honorable in meeting its local debts; it loses progressive force, from lack of knowledge as to how to judge men, and train them, and set them to work.
The hotel of the British embassy is one of the best in Parisfine reception-rooms opening on a very large garden, and a large courtyard and side exitso there was no confusion of carriages.
There were three doors in the playgroundone the entrance from the garden, another opening into the lane, and a third into the field, the two latter being usually kept locked.
The scientific vista opening to the eye of man is impressive and appalling.
" "Opening at the top, too," said Trendon.
The essences of the pressed leaves seem to fill every pore of one's body, the sounds of falling water make a soothing hush, while the spaces between the grand spires afford noble openings through which to gaze dreamily into the starry sky.
He will see, as he rounds some rocky point, half a dozen of these gigantic boulders piled together, leaning against each other with great cavernous openings between, through which he can walk erect, and he involuntarily looks around him for the armor of the ancient giants who piled up these stupendous rocks and walled in the lake with these massive boulders.
There's a path over there just in front of you; you can see the opening from where you are lying.
There, in some sunny glade among the pines, he will ensconce himself in the thickest branches, and whir off as you come near, sailing down the opening with his body balancing from side to side.
I cried as if my heart would break, when I had the last sight of him through a little opening among the trees, as he went down the road.
At once it swung away from the side into the middle of the well; the water ceased to run over the edge, with a loud gurgling began to sink, and sank down and down and down until the opening by which it escaped was visible.
IV MOBILIZING WOMEN IN FRANCE Compared with the friction in the mobilization of woman-power in Great Britain, the readjustment in the lives of women in France was like the opening out of some harmonious pageant in full accord with popular sympathy.
So slow and solemn was the progress out of church, that merry James Hardwick averred that he saw Deacon Stone, a short fat man, actually dozing, his eyes softly shutting and opening like a hen's, as he was borne along by the crowd.
Marty, for all he could not imagine the way opening before such as himself, was all eagerness about the nearest Methodist school, which happened to be the one where the Institute had been held, Cartwright College.
All these huts have windows, and most of them are ventilated through openings under the eaves or just below the ridge, and some through both.
Momentarily nonplussed by such unheard-of calmness under a ghostly visitation, the apparition, without changing position, allowed itself to roll one inquiring eye towards the opening above the step-ladder, where the moonlight revealed an attentive head of red hair.
It is about a foot in diameter, round and bossy in outline, with a neatly arched opening near the bottom, somewhat like an old-fashioned brick oven, or Hottentot's hut.
I had remembered a window opening over a shed at the head of the kitchen staircase.
So saying, she took him back through the mirror, sealing off the opening behind them forever.
For one whole hour did Roswell Gardiner remain in the cross-trees, having hailed the deck, and caused the schooner's head to be turned to the south-east, pressing her through the openings as near the wind as she could go.
"I must insist," said the Judge, sternly, "that the plaintiff's counsel be allowed to continue his opening without interruption.
And that he did enter that arena constructively, and by secret design, from his very earliest manhood, may be gathered from thisthat he suffered no openings towards a revolution, provided they had any hope in them, to escape his participation.
53.Pits in the Mucous Membrane of the Stomach, and Openings of the Gastric Glands.