Which preposition to use with signboard
On Long Street, within sight of my windowjust where the street gets into its most tangled trafficthere has hung for many years the painted signboard of a veterinary surgeon.
Outside, an old English design of a signboard with a wheel on it creaked despairingly in the wind.
It is difficult to forecast a time when a broad signboard in Rampart Row will invite the passer-by to visit Mr. Nagshett's world-renowned Serpent Tamasha, Mungoose and Cobra Fight, Mango-tree Illusion, etc.
A prettier little place could scarcely have been discovered, with its tree-shaded high-road, its cluster of thatched cottages, its blacksmith's shop, rustic inn with the signboard on a high post before the door, and last but not least, the quaint little church standing some hundred yards back from the main road, and approached from the lych-gate by an avenue of limes.
"I was walking down a narrow street of Mecca towards the big tank, when to my amazement I saw written up on a signboard above a door the single word 'Lodgings.'
You might see that cognizance carved on the manor, and on the stonework and woodwork of the church, and on a score of houses in the village, and it hung on the signboard over the door of the inn.
A six-armed signboard at a crossroads told us its name a rather impressive name ordinarily for a place of perhaps twenty houses, all told.