Which preposition to use with remarks
The Brahmin, who was well read in European history, on my making a remark on this subject, reminded me that Athens and Sparta had once obtained almost equal celebrity, although they were so small as not now to be visible.
Steadily, the roaring grew louder and nearer, until it appeared, as I remarked to Tonnison, almost to come from under our feetand still we were surrounded by the trees and shrubs.
Not a disparaging word of any kind was said, not even the usual remark of "cet anglais qui nous represente."
Ploughboy finds the following remark in Mr. GREELEY'S thirtieth
He paid me a short formal visit soon after he had accepted the post; we exchanged a few remarks about the situation, I hoped we would faire bon menage, and had no particular impression of him except that he was very French and stiff; I didn't suppose I should see much of him.
I don't know what the interpreter said to them from me, probably embellished my very banal remarks with flowers of rhetoric, but they were very smiling, opening wide their black mouths and made me very low bowsevidently appreciated my intention and effort to be amiable.
Not in Propria Persona, Seignior, but by Speculation, I have, and made most considerable Remarks on that incomparable Terra Firma, of which I have the compleatest Map in Christendomand which Gonzales himself omitted in his Cosmographia of the Lunar Mundus.
see that much just now?" demanded the sailor, who took the remark as almost a personal affront, "My hat's off to Mr. Darrin.
I, where Harman senior remarks at Towerson and Ysabinda's wedding: 'You Englishmen ... cannot stay for ceremonies; a good honest Dutchman would have been plying the glass all this while, and drunk to the hopes of Hans in Kelder till 'twas bedtime.' p. 204
How a real Kindergarten strikes a child is illustrated by the recent remark from a little new boy who had been with us for perhaps three mornings.
* Remark by a Bandsman.
There was scarce half a dozen years' difference of age between him and the Castlewood twins; but Mr. Washington had always been remarked for a discretion and sobriety much beyond his time of life, whilst the boys of Castlewood seemed younger than theirs.
"Why, we're all in the water," he remarked after a while.
I will first introduce to the committee Mrs. Harriet R. Shattuck, of Boston, Mass. REMARKS BY MRS.
The essay on Thinking for Oneself is a rendering of certain remarks under the heading Selbstdenken.
" #JOCK OF JEDBURGH# "During a tedious passage to the North, I remarked among the steerage passengers a man who seemed to keep himself apart from the rest.
" There was a time when a remark like that would have had me snookered.
Banty Tim (Remarks of Sergeant Tilmon Joy to The White Man's Committee of Spunky Point, Illinois.)
" "The steamer leaves at six o'clock," he remarked without looking up.
a female voice remarked during the stout auctioneer's pause for breath.
Hume adds: "People thence accounted for that resemblance which was afterward remarked between young Perkin and that monarch."
"Mrs. Brunner has become too childish to have the responsibility of young girls," had been frequently remarked before Elitha's visit; and after her departure, the same friends expressed regret that she had not taken us away with her.
I remarked into the telephone that somebody in the steamship office must take me for a fool, and that I did not consider such things jokes.
The Arabs made many bitter remarks against Germany.
of Least Squares. 1879 June 1 Remarks in debate on Sadler's The Observatory "Notes" above-mentioned.