Which preposition to use with paired
They hire for the season a pair of strong Norman horses that go all day up and down hill at the same regular pace and who get over a vast amount of country.
He had noticed that she had been rather preoccupied during dinner, an unusual mood for so lively a girl, and now he could not help watching the pair in the distance, she talking with an earnest, troubled expression, and he listening to her story in grave wonderment, now and again interposing a few words.
Who knows but the fact may induce SUSAN B. ANTHONY to go pairing with some Revolutionary bachelor?
I kept this one thinking that sooner or later somebody might leave another like it, and then I'd have a pair for nothing.
I confess my shoes are hardly decent, but then I can make myself a pair at any time; and indeed I've been thinking I would for the last three months, as soon as a slack time came; but I've been far too busy as yet, and, as I don't go out much till after it's dusk, nobody sees them.
If we had that pair on the Navy eleven, along with you two, no team that the Army ever yet sent out could beat us.
Marine glasses were in use by every officer who had brought his pair to the deck.
55 With sweet concern the pitying beauty mourns, And sooths with smiles the jealous pair by turns.
Dorsey noticed the entrance of the pair from the Quarter Circle KT.
If Janson stole the necklace from Monsieur du Laurier, with this pair as accomplices, and then tried to cheat them, a motive for the crime is evident.
They often work in pairs like that.
While therein consequence of negotiations that had been carried on for some timeMiss Blunt had her desires gratified by the arrival of a fine Pyrenean puppylike a small white bear with brown pointsfrom Cauterets, one of the identical pair about which we had such a lively scene with the old French fancier.
" Mrs. Dowson looked up quickly, and then, lowering her eyes, took her hand out of the stocking she had been darning and, placing it beside its companion, rolled the pair into a ball.
The ill-assorted pair after some unhappy years resolved on separation; and falling into bad health and worse spirits, the "bright morning star of Annesley" passed under a cloud of mental darkness.
We have nothing told us to support the theory that Deputy's life ever changed in its routine of work, and I am sure you agree with me that there were never an odder pair than the two: Durdles, the stone-mason, and Deputy, his servant.
This done, and the entrance-door being again locked, bolted, and barred, the jailer led the way to another pair of huge gates opposite the pair through which they had entered, and opened a similar small door therein.
He seemed about to hurl himself upon the pair before him.
After the other dishes were removed, some large fruit, of the peach kind, were set on the table, when the members of the family, having carefully paired off the skin, ate it, and threw the rest away.
kin yoke up a pair uv ordina'y niggers all right.
May I cut him a pair out of paper?" asked Dodo.
Note (1) stoup in porch, (2) the vigorously executed gargoyles, especially the pair over the porch, a mediaeval presentation of Darby and Joan.
It was the land of Laura and Petrarch, and she, seated with half-closed eyes beneath the Bayfield elms, saw the pair beside the waters of Vaucluse, saw the roses and orange-trees and arid plains of Provence, and wondered at the trouble in their spiritual love.
"Caroline, do you permit your daughter to play the coquette so early?" "Better at seven than seventeen, Edward, believe me; had she numbered the latter, I might be rather more uneasy, at present I can admire that pretty little pair without any such feeling.
It brings the old times back to one again, The grim-eyed crowd that faced the morning's dolours Doing their very best to drip the rain Down other people's collars; The fond, fond pair beneath a single dome; The fight to ride on Hammersmiths and Chelseas; The rapture when you found on reaching home
The abbot refused to marry the bridal pair amidst such discord.