Which preposition to use with stations
After the baby was well, Mary went back to the mission station in the valley.
He always arrived at the station at the last minute, and got into the last carriage, hoping to be undisturbed, and have a quiet half-hour with his papers, but he was rarely left alone.
I was stationed on a little eminence within this area; and in the same vacant space I beheld a party of veteran Commanders, both Military and Naval, who seemed to have been conferring together, but separated by the direction of my aetherial Conductors, to address, in different parts of this extensive field, the different companies assigned to their care.
There were always officers riding, squads of soldiers moving about, bugle-calls in all directions, and continuous arrivals at the station of deputies and journalists hurrying to the palace, their black portfolios under their arms.
Jimmie Batch, who had first seen light, and that gaslight, in a block in lower Manhattan which has since been given over to a milk-station for a highly congested district, had the palate, if not the purse, of the cosmopolite.
She walked down to the station with him, though he wished to go in the cab which took his box and suit-case, but he did not resist her wish.
Louis led the way out of the station to where a pair of magnificent horses stood, tossing their regal heads impatiently.
There were, too, one or two members of W.'s cabinet always stationed near the doors to see that instructions were obeyed.
This place I'm going to, a little way up the Kuskoquim, out of danger when the ice breaks up, has been chosen for a new station by the N. A. T. and T. Companyrival, you know, to the old-established Alaska Commercial, that inherited the Russian fur monopoly and controlled the seal and salmon trade so long.
Their learned men occupied important stations as physicians, agents of government, and even officers of state; while the "New Christians," or Jews professedly converted to Christianity, were intermarried with the highest families in Spain, and all this had taken place in spite of the enmity of the clergy, popular bigotry, and the adverse legislation of cortes or parliaments.
"While going up from the head of canoe navigation on the Taiya River I took the angles of elevation of each station from the preceding one.
She offered to pay for the building of a mission station among the Ibibios if there was no money in the homeland treasury.
In the afternoon we moved on and parked our guns near the station along with those of the other British Batteries, which had arrived before us.
" "And do you not believe, Eve, that Sir George Templemore thinks of the difference in station between us?"
The train seemed to be slipping in to the station without a sound, in the hope that no one would notice how late it was.
At Chatton, the station before Ronleigh, a man who had so far travelled with them got out, and the four boys were left alone.
By a decree, dated June 10, 1848, the King made known to all whom it might concern, that all the troops stationed within the kingdom of Hungary, whether Hungarians or Austrians, were placed under the orders of the Hungarian Minister of War, and that all the Hungarian fortresses were under the jurisdiction of the said Minister.
The captain was much more potential in providing a supper at the evening station than the orderly, who was looked upon with some suspicion when he told the story of his protégés.
and in one minute more Draxy was whirling out of the dark station into the broad sunlight, which dazzled her.
By the observation of this plain method of operation, continued he, I will engage, without any other force than the regiments generally stationed about the capital, to put a stop to any troops that shall be landed on the coast of Britain.
* CHAPTER XXII WHAT HAPPENED AT THE TEA TABLE From my station under Miss Laura's chair, I could see that all the time Mr. Harry was speaking, Mr. Maxwell, although he spoke rather as if he was laughing at him, was yet glancing at him admiringly.
You were at the station during the time we are speaking of.
In every station through which the regiment passed crowds welcomed the blue-coats.
His Motive to Contentment in this Particular, receives a very great Inforcement from the above-mentioned Consideration, if we remember that our Parts in the other World will be new cast, and that Mankind will be there ranged in different Stations of Superiority and Præeminence, in Proportion as they have here excelled one another in Virtue, and performed in their several Posts of Life the Duties which belong to them.
This is all done in what he considers facetious play, with a view to giving you a hint to examine your pockets, and see what bon-bons you have got for him, as he munches cakes and comfits with epicurean gout; and if the door be ajar, he will gravely take his station behind your chair at meal-time, like a lackey, giving you an admonitory kick every now and then, if you fail to help him as well as yourself.