Which preposition to use with repeat
He was a charming talker, but I always felt as if he were saying exactly what he meant to and what he wanted me to repeat to W. I am never quite sure with Italians.
I heard my name now repeated in every direction by the multitudesome calling out to the priests to desist, and others to proceed.
Then, even as I stood, Pepper gave a sudden howl, that was taken up by the echoes, and repeated with ghastly variations, dying away, slowly.
This prayer, the collect, would be repeated at the beginning of Mass at the station itself.
"What do you know?" he repeated for the third time, and now there was no hint of laughter in the hard voice of Lefty.
"'In death's dark vale I will fear no ill,'" he repeated after me.
And the response is repeated from the beginning because the second coming of Christ is watched for, by His faithful (Honorius d'Autun).
The farce was repeated on 25 October of the same year.
There is a numerous class of readers who imagine that the same words cannot be repeated without tautology; this is a great error: virtual tautology is much oftener produced by using different words when the meaning is exactly the same.
The stories sound irreverent, and are often repeated as highly amusing, but they are really more pathetic.
He continues, 'Having obtained my assent to this, he proposed that Frank should be called in; and desiring me to take him by the hand in token of the promise, repeated before him the recommendation he had just made of him, and the promise I had given to attend to it.
The words were reported to me by my dear friend Thomas Poole; but I have since heard the same repeated of other idiots.
In the Office of Christmas Day the lessons are read without the title of the book (Isaias) from which they are taken, because their author's name was so often repeated during the Advent that each one knew their source, or because at Christmas God speaks to us by His Son, rather than by His prophet.
He was repeating under his breath: "Tyranny! tyranny!
You see, he was not like a child of five, taught to repeat by rote lines which could give him no notions but mistaken ones.
Facts are repeated over and over in varying phrases, till you cannot choose but believe them.
He was giving orders which were repeated along the line by another.
The trumpet sounded, and the proclamation was repeated between the granite columns of the Piazzetta, and quite near to the window occupied by Gelsomina and her unmoved companion.
And all because there have been let loose in the blood from the glands of internal secretion the chemical substances that set going the clockwork of sequential incidents elaborated and repeated through countless aeons of time.
Sometimes she stood listening to the gurgling and dripping of unseen waters; and sometimes melodies floated from the distance, which her quick ear caught at once, and her tuneful voice repeated like a mocking-bird.
At first every one was anxious to have what people call a 'good look' at her, because all the usual legends were already repeated about her wherever she went.
The target or aiming point having been designated and the sight setting announced, such designation or announcement need not be repeated until a change of either or both is necessary.
Writing to his wife on the same night, Havelock said: "One of the prayers oft repeated throughout my life has been answered, and I have lived to command in a general action....
So much was assimilated, so much expelled; then, after a season, similar demands were made, the same processes were repeated out of sight, below consciousness, as is the case in a well-ordered stomach.
Lee had acted promptly, and, it would seem, with good judgment; but the question has been asked, why he did not repeat against General Burnside the strategic movement which had embarrassed General McClellan, and arrest the march upon Fredericksburg by threatening, with the detachment under Jackson, the Federal rear.