Which preposition to use with purports
"The 'Book of Odes' contains three hundred pieces, but one expression in it may be taken as covering the purport of all, viz.,
He spoke a few words to the same purport from himself, in addition to Pompey's apology.
It is true that the Conqueror forged a charter purporting to date from Canute in which the king's sole right to take beasts of chase was asserted, and to this he appealed as justifying his harsh new laws; but it is untrue that he depopulated and destroyed a thriving district to make a wilderness for the red deer.
" "May I," she suggested, "write your message for you, and put your purport in words that will be understood by my father alone?" "Do," I rejoined, "but do it in my name, and I will sign it.
The king, according to the Darweshes' advice, wrote a note to this purport on paper sprinkled with gold, and put it in the golden cradle.