Which preposition to use with somethings
"She'll get no good runnin' the streets here in Cottonville, and she can earn a little somethin' in the mill.
Ah, now; couldn't ye do somethin' for old Mary beyant there?
"Now this is somethin' like business," Sergeant Corney said, as if the sense of additional danger was most pleasing to him.
"There was somethin' about him that made my heart swell up inside of me.
Why he thinks he could teach Alexander somethin' on greatness.
"This is the fourth time we've had their camp in full view, an' if he was with 'em we ought to have seen somethin' of him.
"D'you really think you could do somethin' with her, Buck?" "Can I do somethin' with her?" repeated Buck scornfully.
I consider mysel' a young man yet, i' everything, except it be somethin' at's uncuth to me."
It would hev been more convenient an' private.' "Malviny's cheeks got as red as beets an' the flowers on her bonnet danced a Highland Fling as she leaned over to whisper somethin' to her sister, but I hed relieved my feelin's an' could join in quite peaceful like when Mrs. Songster said we'd close the meetin' by singin' 'Blest be the tie that binds.'
He seemed to be tryin' to get at somethin' by goin' round it; an' I thought that somethin' was me.
There's somethin' behind them.
I wants my people to wote right, an' to think somethin' ob demselves.
He'd done somethin' against a company, do you see, and of course I went to three different railroad companies before I woke up and went to the Wells Fargo
We know you got powerful good hearin', Jim, but we all figger you been makin' somethin' out of nothin'.
At last aw gat somethin' ov a yarb doctor.
Which I feel, though, as if there was somethin' inside me writwrit in red lettersI got to try to read the writin' before I can talk much.
D' you figger he's got somethin' up his sleeve, an' that's why he acts so like a damned woman?" "I don't know," said Haines gravely, "he looks to me sort of queersort of differentdamned different, chief!"
Ram somethin' down his throat.
said I. Something within me seemed to reply, in the words of Lear, "Nothing comes of nothing.