Which preposition to use with responded
" It was a brilliant assemblage of great names and intelligences that responded to his invitationGortschakoff, Schouvaloff, Andrassy, Beaconsfield, Salisbury, Karolyi, Hohenlohe, Corti, and many others, younger men, who acted as secretaries.
" "Good," Henshaw responded with what seemed a half-smothered yawn.
Very many have the idea that there are few others with his gifts who would respond in the same way to their demand for sympathy and help; for Sir Andrew's interest in each patient was real.
It was the old instinct of his fathers that made him respond by caressing Gray Wolf's face with his tongue.
Mr. Foker, who was something of a sport, was acquainted with the troupe who were then acting at that theatre, and the entire atmosphere was so new and exciting to Pen that his emotional nature, which had been waiting for many months for a sensational thrill, responded at once to the idea; and later on to the applause of pit and gallery, and to the personal magnetism of the heroine of the play, one Miss Fotheringay.
Andy heard them respond from the farthest haunts of the circus grounds.
And they respond like the fields that border the Nile after the annual flood.
And to this nature the character of MacDonald responded as the natural executive.
I was called upon to respond for somebody or something; I don't remember what it was to this day, nor had I the faintest notion what I ought to say.
The interior of the West end to a height of 5 to 8 feet, with the responds of the nave arcades and of the tower arches, is visible and in good condition.
"It would," Mr. Grimm responded without hesitation.
For I perceived that my manhood had but stirred the woman in her to that strange quick humbleness that had seemed to be a quenching of her wayward unwisdom; and truly it had not been stilled, but only sunken for a little moment in the uprising of her dear nature, which had responded unto me.
Barney did not respond on the instant.
He responded to my real mental and emotional state, responded against his will many times; and I did not know it.
Without being asked again Janet went straight to the piano, sat down at it as if it were the old friend it claimed to be, and with one or two affectionate soft layings of her hands upon it in almost noiseless chords, as if she were asking it something to which it responded under its breath, swept into a movement from one of the greatest compositions the world knows.
I will build it, if I may, like a chapel in the great church of England's worship, gathering the sounds of its never-ceasing choir, heart after heart lifting up itself in the music of speech, heart after heart responding across the ages.
To himto this compound of somnolence, shrewdness, and good natureto this creature with no more tincture of romantic idealism than a wine-skin, the knight addresses, without misgiving, his lofty dissertations on the glories and the duties of chivalrythe squire responding after his fashion.
" Before the girl could respond beyond an answering smile and "good morning," the new friend had put his own alpenstock into her hands and gone to the roadside, where, with unerring judgment, he selected a long, straight, tapering shoot of ash, and hewed it deftly with a monster jack-knife drawn from his trousers pocket.