Which preposition to use with people
But you that have trudged over more roads than any muleteer that plies for hire, you must have come across the people of Lyons, and you must know that it is a far cry from Xanthus to the Rhone."
There were quite a number of people in the eveningthe music of the garde republicaine playing, and a buffet in the dining-room which was always crowded.
A wraith ship, peopled with skeletons, would have been less dreadful to their sight than the brisk and active desolation of the heeling schooner.
It was an impressive scene, the hall packed, and people at all the doors and entrances clamouring for seats.
I felt sorry for the Orientals and people from milder climesthey looked so miserably cold and wretched shivering under the very fresh April breezes that swept over the great plain of the Champ de Mars.
We tied up one night by the side of another similar craft, that had gone down ahead of us, the people on board of which had landed and built a camp-fire, and erected their tent.
"Well, after the rain had continued falling for a number of days, and the valleys were all full of water, and the angry surges went roaring, with the voice of ten thousand thunders, high up along the sides of the hills, one of these pestilent fellowsderiding the miraculous exhibition going on all around himundertook, in his self-conceit, to lead the people to a place of safety.
I want to get into the jungles sometime and win those poor, ignorant heathen people for Jesus.
And worst of all is that they have slaves and sell their own people as slaves.
It really does seem rather a pity, the very first time one dines with people like the Mitchells.'
He, in short, united, for the simple people by whom he was surrounded, the functions of lawyer, physician, schoolmaster, and divine, and richly merited the reverential respect in which they held him, as well as their little presents of eggs, fruit, and garden stuff.
Of a civil engineer who would lament that the mountain over which he was asked to project a road was steep? Of a doctor who would grieve that hosts of people about him were very ill?
It is a thousand pities that the cities could not be emptied every summer of their little people into the free and open country, where they could run about, and sport and play, and have free range and plenty of elbow-room.
"I believe she would rather associate with such people than with those of her own class.
It stands as one people against the present enemy, and in its effort does not fail to give thought to race conservation for the future.
It was a great satisfaction and pride to Parisians to have so many royalties and distinguished people among them again.
The Church is drawing hosts of young people under the shelter of its teaching, and is placing before men and women ideals which cannot fail to make their mark upon the social standards of the times.
The upper house of Congress is therefore a federal while the lower house is a national body, and the government is brought into direct contact with the people without endangering the equal rights of the several states.
The families of their people around supply the societies of these monks with an abundant sufficiency of what they require, so that there is no lack or stint.
A few wise and noble spirits, true Faithfuls and Great Hearts, led a despondent people out of the Slough of Despond till their feet were again on firm ground and their faces turned towards the Delectable Mountains of peace, justice, and liberty.
During his last illness he suffered at times intensely; yet was patient, brave, and full of thoughtfulness for his people through it all, and looked forward with firm hope to spending Easter with his Maker.
the law does give people over other peoplebecause Aunt Betsy married Uncle John fifty years ago, and was probably infernally sorry for it!" Mary smiled.
Spotted Tail had permission from the Government to hunt the buffalo, with his people during the winter, in the Republican river country.
It was wrapped in darkness though the sun was shining, the windows closed as if they never would open more, and the people within turning their faces to the wall, covering their eyes that they might not see the light of day.
He brought his mother a tragedy in which, though he killed sixteen people before the second act, she laughed so that he thrust the masterpiece into the fire in a pet.