Which preposition to use with suggestion
Long before the supper hour some enterprising spirits had discovered that the royalties were to sup in that room, and finding the secretaries quite inaccessible to any suggestions of "people who had a right to come in"presidents of commissions and various other distinctionshad recourse to the servants, and various gold pieces circulated, which, however, did not accomplish their object.
Let such a man also make helpful suggestions for neighborhood social and intellectual life.
The Editor of the GUIDE would offer one suggestion to league presidents and umpires; it is this: whenever two possible plays occur in conjunction, instruct the chief umpire always to turn to the spectators and inform them which player is out.
There was a strange suggestion in the open door,so futile, a kind of emblem of vanity: all free around, so that you could go where you pleased, and yet that semblance of an enclosure,that way of entrance, unnecessary, leading to nothing.
" "He made no suggestion as to the stains on Miss Tredworth's dress?" Gifford asked.
But he made up his mind to put an end, once and for all, to such suggestions from the tempter; and resolved accordingly that, if he got up late again, he would throw a guinea into the Cam.
My wife was now so much convinced of his sincere friendship for me, and regard for her, that, without any suggestion on my part, she wrote him a very polite and grateful letter: 'DR.
But Laurella turned away from these suggestions with the hopeless, pliable obstinacy of the weak.
They have extended their scope, and in addition to the material already taken from workman and shop, from garden and farm, have also with much profit to older children used his suggestions about primitive industries.
" He followed his own suggestion by scampering away to the house and returned almost at once with a hat full of the prunes.
To have nothing,to be destitute; to be written about by Mr. Furnival to the earl; to have her case represented,Mary felt herself stung by such unendurable suggestions into an energya determinationof which her soft young life had known nothing.
It was generally conceded that Patsy was his favorite because she could advance more odd suggestions than the other girls, and this niece had a practical aptitude for carrying out her whimsical ideas that had long since won her uncle's respect.
One never knows who may overhear..." Her eyebrows lifted a little, but she adopted the suggestion without other demur.
Suggestions at once lost their tonic force in the woolly cushion of her apathy.
From that absent but pervasive personality Sylvia took one suggestion after another.
To even outline this period would be impossible at present; but in the sixth chapter and the last, as well as in the intermediate pieces, I have given some suggestions towards this future Healing of the Nations.
She knew that the old man made the suggestion out of the goodness of his heart, and she fell in with it, realizing the wisdom of going within.
At Mrs. Lord's own suggestion before the séance, two women present took the Medium into another room, and searched her clothes.
He has made few suggestions during our very pleasant intercourse of four years that he has not ultimately won me round to adopting.
He was charged with bribery, and condemned; the king remitted the imprisonment and fine, and for the remainder of his life Bacon devoted himself to science, rejecting every suggestion toward a renewal of his political activity.
The hush was felt among them, and in the silence his voiceclear, passionless, low, and far-reachingseemed not so much a voice as a suggestion within the inner consciousness of his hearers of the thoughts he uttered.
It is a very common objection to suggestions like these, that they will do very well for those who have wealth, but not for the poor;that they have neither the time nor the means of attending to them.
From all this, the doctrine receives no better support than from Adam's suggestion above considered.
But let us not reject Professor Murray's suggestion off-hand because of its inherent difficulties: for that men should be discussing such schemes at all marks a significant advance in our political thought.
My candle was a little tongue of light in its vastness, that failed to pierce the opposite end of the room, and left an ocean of mystery and suggestion beyond its island of light.