Which preposition to use with reflecting
Hast thou reflected on the dire and unendurable torments which compliance with them will entail on thee?
As we drove across the bridge on our way home from the reception at the Elysee, it was a beautiful sightthe streets full of people waiting to see the foreign royalties pass, and the view up and down the Seine, with the lights from the high buildings reflected in the waterlike fairy-land.
As they burnt up, their rays were reflected from the rack of firearms on the sidewall.
Over his benefactor too, his protector, Beaumaroy reflected with a satiric smile.
What say you to this?" The student reflected for some minutes.
Over the lake flew that great shadow: the waters looked cold and still, reflecting as in a polished glass the motionless rushes, the glassy bank, and Martin, sitting on it, still clasping in his arms the dead rose-coloured bird.
If she had not lifted her desperate eyes and seen Mark King reflected at the window, how would she have answered that one final question the "judge" propounded?
The favoured part, therefore, never experiences total darkness, the earth reflecting to the Lunarians as much light as we terrestrials have a little before sunrise, or after sunset.
Etta paused to reflect over this.
It was to the author a picture of the world as he saw it; and it is to us a mirror in which every attribute of his genius, every peculiarity of his nature, is reflected without distortion.
Instead of leading the age, it seems to lag behind it, and to content itself with reflecting into our eyes the splendor of the sun which has set, instead of facing the east and foretelling the glory which is coming.
They sat where they could watch the red and green lights, reflected like topazes and rubies in the shimmering water, fall away and dwindle as the silhouette of the embarcadero receded.
'Let us seriously reflect of what a pudding is composed.
"Brother Rae, have you reflected about this?" "WhyBrother Brighamnonot reflectedperhaps if we both prayed with hearts full of faith, the Lord might" "Brother Rae!"
There are two or three, or more, of these reservoirs, one of which is of very respectable size,large enough, indeed, to be really a picturesque object, with its grass-green borders, and the trees drooping over it, and the towers of the castle and the church reflected within the weed-grown depths of its smooth mirror.
it is turned back or reflected along motor nerves.
Look, though, down that Allspice avenue, at the clear warm light which is reflected off the smooth yellow ever-peeling stems; and then, if you can fix your eye steadily on any object, where all are equally new and strange, look at this stately tree.
She saw, reflected through the water upon her naked arms and bosom, the two cocoa trees which were planted at her birth and that of her brother, and which interwove about her head their green branches and young fruit.
And the king, reflecting by himself that his daughter had attained to puberty, concluded that Damayanti's Swayamvara should take place.
Some of these streets had been swept, so that at the first glance they seemed to be streets where all the citizens were indoors, reflecting behind drawn blinds and closed shutters upon some incredible happening.
This dislike of the Germans was reflected among the lesser Turkish officers.
With every change in the altitude of the sun the display changes its character; and most of all when it has sunk below the horizon, and, owing to the more favourable angles, a larger quantity of the coloured light is reflected toward us.
The dying breeze stirred hardly a ripple on the winding ponds, so marble columns, trees and statuary were reflected amid shadows of the swans in water tinted by the colors of the sinking sun.
Such souls should not give way to despairing thoughts, as if their case were wholly helpless and hopeless; for that is a reflecting on the power and skill of Christ, and therefore is provoking and dishonourable to him.
There were few grave faces, though possibly some of the many grins were more reflected than original.