Which preposition to use with reasonable
Commander Newell kindly aided me in making arrangements with the Indians, and did all he could to induce them to be reasonable in their demands.
"What do you want for a share in your claim, Mr. McGinty?" "Oh, well, as I say, I'll let it go reasonable to a feller who'd do the assessment, on account
An effort to save them would seem more reasonable than a demand for more children to neglect.
The word "pleasure" recalls to mind the name of Epicurus, and I confess, that of all the opinions of the philosophers concerning the supreme good, there are none which appear to me to be so reasonable as his.
"Finally, who are the men the most reasonable for women of that kind?
Frederic, the more reasonable of the two, certainly had sense enough to say: "This isn't prudent on our part.
The King was perfectly reasonable about Lord Combermere.
And this construction of the Constitution appears the more reasonable from the consideration that if these works, of such evident importance and utility, are not to be accomplished by Congress they can not be accomplished at all.
If that plan is reasonable under the monarchical system, I pledge myself to support it and employ all my means, all my influence, to prevent that invasion of the democracy which is coming upon us.
[Footnote 6: This is better; and the house made of one jewel thirty miles in circuit is an extravagance that becomes reasonable on reflection, affording a just idea of what might be looked for among the endless planetary wonders of Nature, which confound all our relative ideas of size and splendour.
Henceforth, he can be reasonable with impunity.
They learned to be reasonable by seeing how the reason compelled father and mother, and not by having their vision stopped short at the arbitrary fact that father and mother compelled them.
Congress merely proclaims that the rates shall be reasonable and without discriminationboth mere expressions of the common lawand leaves the determination of what is reasonable between the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Supreme Court, neither of them legislative bodies.
I know not how she may take this request of thine; it seemeth but reasonable unto me, and it will be that saving of work for her.
The worst of it was that he had come back as soft-headed as he went, and try as we might we couldn't get anything reasonable out of him.