Which preposition to use with sinister
But, preocupied each with a different interest, as well as the preparation for the President's fête, the Atterburys remarked nothing sinister in the distracted conduct of their servants, and had only a vague feeling that the great event had in some sort paralyzed their wonted noisy activities and repressed their usual chatter.
Sir John, who stepped into the Abbey in 1540, married twice, and the premature appearance of a son by the second wifewidow of Sir George Halghbrought the bar sinister of which so much has been made.
There was something curiously sinister about it.
Their roar seemed more sinister than usual.
But now some star, sinister to our pray'rs; Contrives new schemes, and calls you from affairs.
It was as blood-curdling as a scream, yet as sinister as a red dragon's growl.
BATON-SINISTER, a bend-sinister like a marshal's baton, an indication of illegitimacy.
"The Bondman," which had been begun in March, 1889, at Aberleigh Lodge, Bexley Heath, Kent, a house of sinister memoryfor Caine narrowly escaped being murdered there one nightwas finished in October, at Castlerigg Cottage, Keswick, and was published by Heinemann in 1890, with a success which is far from being exhausted even to-day.
There was but one hope, and that turned out a mere aurora borealis, connected with the Duke of Monmouth, who, through his extraction by a bend sinister from Charles, as well as through his popular manners, Protestant principles, and gracious exterior, had become such a favourite with the people, that strong efforts were made to exclude the Duke of York, and to exalt him to the succession.
" Basilio, accustomed to obey and bear with the caprices and humors of Capitan Tiago. was now dominated by Simoun, who appeared to him terrible and sinister on a background bathed in tears and blood.
Holroyd was roused from meditations that were becoming sinister by the hum of a mosquito.
[All the fancy COCKS draw aside, revealing the WHITE PILE GAME COCK, who appears, tall and lean and sinister at the further end of their double row.] CHANTECLER At last!
