Which preposition to use with property
We had discovered the secret of gunpowder, the magnetic attraction, the properties of electricity, long before they were heard of in Europe.
I met my family there, and having bought some property in that city, with the intention of making the place my home, I asked Bill not to cut up any of his capers, for I wanted the performance to go off smoothly, as I expected a large audience that evening.
"No fear," answered the other, calmly returning the piece of lost property to his own pocket.
Without dismounting, and uttering no word of salutation or preface, he said: "Cais, my father desires that you send him that which is his due; by so doing your conduct will be that of a generous man; but if you refuse, my father will come against you, carry off his property by force, and plunge you into misfortune.
He was a black fox, and I knew that he was the gentleman that had been makin' free with my property for the last few days.
She was thinking of the moments he had held that deadly Thing in his hands, while he strove to save lives and property from destruction.
The heroine came on; she was well known for her smile, which had become public property on picture post-cards and the Obosh bottles.
About the forty-seventh year of my life, I disposed all my property at Long-Island, and came from thence into East-Haddam.
Instead of this being a problem with two men and one man's property as factors, it is a case of three individuals with god-given rights of individual choice.
He wondered at the short-sighted policy of the executor of Mr. Coombs' estate in allowing so much money to be tied up in this property without proper safeguards.
The struggle raged for some generations and ended by an appeal to the sword; in which, since the force of the State was by law in the hands of the majority, the intelligent, thrifty, careful owners of property with their adherents were signally defeated.
A very common error for the legal term 'livery of seisin' which signifies the delivery of property into the corporal possession of a person.
The endocrine type of an individual is a summary of these, his behaviour in the past, and is also a prediction of his reactions in the future, much as a chemical formula outlines what we believe to be the skeleton of a compound substance as deducible from its properties under varying conditions.
"A fortnight ago no community in the world could have been living in greater security of life and property than ours.
But should she die without issue previous to the death of Jane Merrick, I then appoint my friend and attorney, Silas Watson, to distribute the property among such organized and worthy charities as he may select.'
Thus have these people defended their property against the encroachments of the sea for many centuries.
Mr. Breckinridge means the superiority of a certain exceptional species of property over all others, nay, over man himself.
My treasury will charge itself with the administration of thy property during thy absence.
Will a little water, a little rust, a little trouble with labor reduce the value of a great property like this from ten millions of dollars to one hundred thousandone per cent of its appraised value?
There are also twelve cathedral schools, one for each ecclesiastical diocese, which were founded in the middle ages, and are supported by large estates acquired from the early kings and by confiscation of church property after the Reformation.
The offer of free farms would probably have a powerful effect in encouraging emigration, especially from States like Illinois, Tennessee, and Kentucky, to the west of the Mississippi, and could not fail to reduce the price of property within their limits.
" The story of Browse's mishap, as we have just said, soon passed from mouth to mouth, until it was common property throughout the college.
Orozco and his followers, while evacuating the capital of Chihuahua, kept on wrecking railway property between Chihuahua City and Juarez, and the campaign kept growing more expensive every day.
Lastly, when it came to providing me with what I wanteda house and gardenit was she who by the most unheard-of struggles induced him to buy a pretty little property near his own.
You've got a tough customer to deal with, and it may be some trouble to git all the property out of his hands.