Which preposition to use with sense
Somehow, as we went forward, a sense of the silent loneliness and desertion of the old garden grew upon me, and I felt shivery.
Seems to me nowadays the church is built at a different angle from the Sermon on the Mount an' things is measured by the world's yardsticks till there ain't much sense in callin' it a church at all.
"That fellow at the Forks has no more sense than a hen.
This ain't got to be a war, Mr. Eagen, just because we don't want to work without any sense to it.
'Ain't you men got no sense for seein' things?
Still, except at night, she does not regard herself in any sense as an invalid.
Ariel said, he had left them almost out of their senses with fear, at the strange things he had caused them to see and hear.
A kind old Quaker found and took me home; but though I was too weak to talk, I had my senses by that time, and knew what went on about me.
Meanwhile, Base Ball had received a setback greater than any which had befallen the sport in an organized sense from a professional standpoint.
"So you have come to your senses at last!" said Mr. SCHENCK, hastily drawing his visitor toward a window in the side-room to which they had retired.
Sights that offended more than one of the senses on the day when General Allenby made his official entry had disappeared, and peace and order reigned where previously had been but misery, poverty, disease, and squalor.
If you want me to hammer sense into the planters, you could not get a worse man for the job.
The next day no one of them was found dead; and they recovered their senses about the same hour that they had lost them on the preceding day; and on the third and fourth days they got up as if after having taken physic.
I will not therefore busy myself about the "unconcerning parts of knowledge, but be content like a reader of plain sense without politeness."
John Wingfield, Sr. put his hands out to the shoulders of his son and gripped them strongly, and for a second let his own weight half rest on that sturdy column which he sensed under the grip.
Some very good but ordinary people, by an unwearied perseverance in good offices, put a cheat upon our eyes: juggle our senses out of their natural impressions; and set us upon discovering good indications in a countenance, which at first sight promised nothing less.
It came over the senses like a pleasant dream, as it went swelling up to the hills that skirted the lake, floating away over the water, and dying away in lengthened cadence in the old forests.
His resurrection and ascension satisfy our consciences, satisfy that highest reason and moral sense within us, which is none other than the voice of the Holy Spirit of God.
Not again that there are wanting men of sense among the same body.
It would be common sense against instinct.
"Can any good come out of Trinity?" is a question that has been asked and answered in various senses during the recent Catholic University controversies in Ireland; but for whatever other good Catholics might look to that staunchly Elizabethan institution, they would scarcely turn thither for theological guidance.
Mrs. Veal died the seventh of September, at twelve o'clock at noon, of her fits, and had not above four hours' senses before her death, in which time she received the sacrament.
Now I ask my readers to use their common sense over this astounding factwhich, after all, is only one among hundreds; to let (as Mr. Matthew Arnold would well say) their "thought play freely" about it; and consider for themselves what those shells must mean.
Each new manifestation of life means some new correspondence with surrounding reality as we piss from mere vegetation, and then add local movement, and one sense after another, till we come finally to intelligence and the life of reason and right-doing, which again, consists in self-conformation to things as they really are.
We also maintainagain with perfect truththat mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.