Which preposition to use with stepped
There is the nature that refuses to be shut up to the petty, that will not content itself with one street or town, that steps out into life from childhood with the step of the conqueror, and walks among us; one who was born a king.
For some time longer, we continued to stare about us, and then, noticing that there was a clear space away to the north of the chasm, we bent our steps in that direction.
I stepped into the hall, and was about to call to her, when it occurred to me, that it was very queer she should have crept past my door, in that stealthy manner.
Stepping to one side of the window, I reloaded, and then stood there, waiting.
On we went, step by step, struggling and gasping, until somewhere about a hundred yards had been safely traversed.
There are steps on the stairs; strange padding steps, that come up and nearer....
In the rear of the Broadway dwelling-houses, are one story tea-rooms, or third parlors, the roofs of which form a continuous platform, upon which you can step from the second story of the houses.
Hence the first step towards an industrial millennium is to arise and do what Jesus bids.
For perhaps a minute I stared at the creature; then as my nerves steadied a little I shook off the vague alarm that held me, and took a step toward the window.
We wish to step out of the trivial experience into that which is significant.
To stand apart from it is to be out of step with the march of nations.
That he was passing leisurely along with his rifle at a trail, admiring the transcendent loveliness of the scenery around him, where the rugged and the sublime, the placid and the beautiful, were so magnificently mingled, when, in turning a sharp angle, a huge bear" "Copy!" shouted the printer's devil, as he came plunging down three steps at a bound from the compositors' room above.
The previous combinations of animal life and vegetable life passed away with the era in which they flourished; one class succeeding another, each emerging from, and stepping over the annihilation of its predecessor, till we come down to the presentis there no future progress for this earth as a planet?
She was of a type common enough on the high seas, except that a step for a mast showed that she had presumably been used for skimming about open shores.
At the mouth of this little stream, which one can step across, the trout congregate.
" They high-stepped through the gloom, and finally, with firmer step, up the gravel walk and into the white-lighted, screened-in porch.
[He steps between them, they fight, Pisaro falls.
I walked into the heart of the shrubberies two or three times, not seeing a step before me, till I came out upon the broader carriage-road, where the trees opened a little, and there was a faint gray glimmer of sky visible, under which the great limes and elms stood darkling like ghosts; but it grew black again as I approached the corner where the ruins lay.
"Neither Laura nor I will stir a step without you, that's a sure thing.
Saying this Butts had backed a step behind the stove-pipe, and with incredible quickness had pulled out a revolver.
Without a word the stranger stepped up to Mouler and dealt him a sounding box on the ear.
Diggory was retracing his steps along the passage, wondering what could be the object of all this secrecy, when he nearly ran into the school captain.
" I took the still burning lamp and went down,down through the entrance into the deep, walled passage-way, on, step after step, through this black tunnel, built, when, I knew not, or by whom; but I was brave now.
A theory, therefore, which is limited to the actual constitution of this earth cannot be allowed to proceed one step beyond the present order of things.
Taking in the situation at a glance she ran with steady steps down the sloping roof to where the plank lay, and stepped out upon it far enough to see the boy dangling beside her.