Which preposition to use with spell
We stared at each other, I fascinated by something, some spell of the ship, which I have never been able to explain to myselfnor even describe.
St. Paul's church is a heap of ruins; the Monument isn't half so high as you knew it, divers parts being successively taken down which the ravages of time had rendered dangerous; the horse at Charing Cross is gone, no one knows whither,and all this has taken place while you have been settling whether Ho-hing-tong should be spelled with a or a. For aught
There was nothing before me but the plantations or a long spell in some noisome prison.
He demanded that the children of the country should be taught to spell on proper principles, so that his works might be intelligible to posterity, as they were not to his contemporaries.
An old woman was called to cast spells over him, and said to the King: "He could not see a woman he has never seen.
"Their name, their years, spelt by th' muse, The place of fame and elegy supply."
"It's a big breathing spell for Ben Gaynor."
Nevertheless, mounting the last slope was such hard labour that Mugford had to turn to and "work his passage," by every now and again taking a spell at the treadles.
After all, who could resist experimenting with spells from a book with a title like The Best and Most Complete Book of Witchcraft Ever Written?
She bore him to the top of a mountain, and cast a spell about the mountain, to make the top lovely and the sides inaccessible.
You could get along for a spell without medon't you think you could? Honey," she spoke desperately.
When everything was ready, Graham followed the spell to the letter.
" After escaping a reef off Point Danger they discovered a bay, which Cook called Morton Bay after the Earl of Morton, P.R.S.; now wrongly spelt as Moreton Bay.
"IHarryI" "You've got to stop this kind of thing, Millie, getting nervous spells like all the other women do the minute they get ten cents in their pocket.
As a spell against the Wild Huntsman, the Moss-women sit in the middle of those trees upon which the woodcutter has placed a cross, indicating that they are to be hewn, thereby making sure of their safety.
Do you hear that voice of singing? 'Tis the enchantress that is flinging Spells around her baby's riot, Music's oil the waves to quiet: She at once can disenchant them, To a lover's wish to grant them; She can make the treasure casket Yield its riches, as that basket Yielded up the gathered flowers; Yet its mines, and fields, and bowers, Full remain, as mother Earth Never tired of giving birth.
B. had several fainting spells after drinking water traced by moose tracks.
There's a spell beyond your powers to lift, my dear.
And quite a spell before that, I believe, Julius Caesar found them tough to bend and hard to break.
" Malagigi took his book, and cast a spell out of it; and in an instant the whole four giants were buried in sleep.
We went a long spell through the woods, keepin' on the edge of the tornado's road; for't had made a clean track about a quarter of a mile wide, and felled the trees flat,great tulips cut off as sharp as pipe-stems, oaks twisted like dandelion-stems, and hickories curled right up in a heap.
After a cool spell near the chapel-door, watching the "painted ladies" [Footnote: Butterflies, of course!] playing with the lilac blossoms, we trudged slowly back again.
The circle all lay down with their heads on each other's shoulders in the drowsy attitude with which the song closes, and then Gladys's clear voice rose in the melody of the Camp Fire Girls' own lullaby, sung to the music of an Ojibway love song: "In the still night, far, far below, The drowsy wavelets come and go, They weave a dream spell round Wohelo.
So he made greater spells than those that enmeshed King Meliadus, and he brought King Meliadus back into his memory of the Queen and his kingdom.
He had had some kind of crazy-spell during or after the killing and wasn't quite over it.