Which preposition to use with scene
Looking backward over the moving processional of the nations of the earth, we may see how, without rest, without pause, through countless ages, the myriad legions of men have been passing across the scene of lifepassing, and fading away!
HARRY PALMER to reopen Tammany with a grand scalping scene in which the TWEED tribe of Indians will appear in aboriginal costume.
His profanity has disgraced himself and the theatre, and his gratuitous insult to an estimable lady, who had the misfortune to appear in the same scene with him on Monday night, should have secured his instant dismissal from the company, and his perpetual banishment to Tammany or Tony Pastor's.
[Illustration: A SCENE FROM OLD NICK-OLOS NICK-OLBY.
The Corner at night was like a scene at a circus.
The right to the glory of having killed the bear being settled, the Doctor, addressing himself to Spalding, remarked"There was something in H's appeal to you about the law of his case, that reminded me of a little scene between my wife and myself, many years ago, when we were both younger than we are now, and certainly had never anticipated the dark years of trial, through which we were unexpectedly called upon to pass.
There were a good many pretty women, Swedes and Danes, the Northern type, very fair hair and blue eyes, attracting much attention, and a group of Chinese (all in costume) standing proudly aloofnot the least interested apparently in the gay scene before them.
After enjoying the beauties of the scene for some minutes, we descended by a rough winding road, and entered this Lunar Paradise, in about four hours.
It is entitled "A Scene on the Barbary Coast; Water in Motion, Steamer in the Distance."
But I'd like to have been divested of my rank for just an hour so that I could have taken in such a scene as that.
The representing power may again suddenly conduct us to another series of ideas, and thus the imagination may be led by the subreasoning power before defined, from one scene to another.
Is there a scene like it in the world?
We all carry with us through life somewhat of the scenes through which we passed in childhood.
In the excitement of the chase either Jacob or I would have passed it by as being of no particular value when there were so many things to be picked up; but the old man was too good and experienced a soldier not to realize the possibilities of the find, and, heedless of all the wild scenes around him, he seized upon it, breaking the lock with a rock.
One morning at breakfast his tripe didn't suit him, and he immediately brained his wife and children and set the house on fire, varying the monotony of the scene by pitching his mother-in-law down the well, having previously, with great consideration, touched her heart with a cheese knife.
Th' cattle market's goin' to be shifted out o' yon hollow, an' in another year or two th' whole scene about here will be changed."
At his entreaties, the Caledonian was induced to advance to the front of the stage (never was there a more moving scene than that before it); silence was obtained, and he condescended to express his sorrow for the state in which some nights previously he had presented himself: adding, "that he never before felt so keenly the degradation of his situation."
Being compelled to watch this scene without power to help, was the beginning of our day.
It reads like a scene out of the Middle Age.
The direct allusion is, perhaps, to Act ii, I. The scene after the rape, Act iv, sc.
Upon his return, Mr. Betterton introduced moving scenes into our theatre, which before had the stage only hung with tapestry.
The picture shows a scene along the French lines immediately after hostilities ceased.
There was a fresh Italian army on the scene under an admirable leader, General Baldissera, who enjoyed the full confidence of his men, and it was clear that the Abyssinian forces could not hold together much longer.
On this peculiar Saturday afternoon in May, Kristian Koppig had been witness of the distressful scene over the way.
" Of the many changing scenes during the eight months of my recent experiences in Persia, two pictures stand out in such sharp contrast as to deserve special mention.