Which preposition to use with reading
W. was really quite exhausted when he got back to Parissaid it was absolute luxury to sit quietly and read in his library, and not talk.
The reading of the passage is uncertain; "sister" is only a conjecture, and it is hard to see why his sister should be mentioned.
I drew up the following proclamation to read to the U.S. official in my district: Q.
Hence we read of old-world warriors,of Gog and Magog and the Kings of Bashan; of the sons of Anak; of Hercules, with his lion-skin and club; of Beówulf, who, dragging the sea-monster from her lair, plunged beneath the drift of sea-foam and the flame of dragon-breath, and met the clutch of dragon-teeth.
Another man reads with his heart open for new impressions, new insight, new fancies and ideals.
Also, it is recorded in the life of Beau Nash that the persons of fashion of his time, to pass a tedious morning "did divert themselves with reading in the booksellers' shops."
" "How about that place, Ophir, I read about?" asked a voice from the bunks.
I dare say, I had read for a couple of hours, when, suddenly, I heard a sound that made me lower my book, and listen, intently.
This I did, and then, as we could not both read from it at the same time, he suggested that I should read the thing out loud.
Or I wave the theory and now conceive that the volume was read at breakfast.
I have wished to make these Tales easy reading for very young children.
Reading on one of the bulletin boards, the other day, the words "War to the Last!"
Patricia had mentioned casually at the breakfast-table that she intended to spend the forenoon on this terrace unsabbatically making notes for a paper on "The Symbolism of Dante," which she was to read before the Lichfield Woman's Club in October; but Mr. Charteris had not overheard her.
After reading over the depositions, produced on the trials with the greatest care, and interrogating the culprits themselves most vigorously by means of a Croatian interpreter, these great physicians discovered that the three old women were not witches, and prevailed with the Empress to send them home in safety.
He read as in an allegory the discipline which a soul needs to fit it for the kingdom, and so throughout the meshes of his daily toil John Randolph wove his parable.
Who would read through a long discourse on Admiralty business, if it be known before that Pepys is engaged with the pretty Mrs. Knipp for a trip to Bartholomew Fair to view the dancing horse, and that the start is to be made on the turning of the page?
It was immediately carried up to the house of lords, where it was read for the first time on the 17th of February; and ordered a second reading on the twenty-second.
Government reports read like the Shaftesbury attacks on the conditions of early factory days.
(f) To read without critical judgments.
But it is certain that they resembled the services of the Jewish synagogue in the readings from Scripture, psalm-singing and prayers, and differed from those services by having readings from the Gospels, the Epistles, and from non-canonical books, such as the Epistle of St. Clement.
The inscription had been read by placing the first tile after the two others, thus,PAX TECUM FILUMENA, Peace be with thee, Filumena; and Filumena was adopted as a new saint in the long list of those to whom the Roman Church has given this title.
The fewer words the better,so that nobody may be able to read between the lines, you know,and the signature attested by two witnesses; but they must not be witnesses that have any interest; that is, that have anything left to them by the document they witness.
Yet so resolute was he in his desire for education that, though he was not even allowed a candle after the elders went to bed, he would sit up till late at night reading by the glow of the embers.
But the habit of reading at the open stalls was not only with the poor.
Some men read into noble words only their own silliness, vulgarity, prejudice, or preconceived ideas.