Which preposition to use with tilt
Dryden's Epilogue spoken by Hart when The Silent Woman was played before the University of Oxford in 1673: Th' Italian Merry-Andrews took their place, And quite debauch'd the Stage with lewd Grimace: Instead of Wit and Humours, your Delight Was there to see two Hobby-horses fight, Stout Scaramoucha with Rush Lance rode in, And ran a Tilt at Centaure Arle
She came in half an hour after the kill, and there was no longer the lithesome alertness to her slender legs, or gladness in the tilt of her ears or the poise of her head.
In case of a trial, the verdict would probably be, that a full FULTON ran full tilt against a full TILTON.
Beneath the swirl of a gown that lay in an iridescent avalanche of sequins about her feet, her foot, tilted to an unbelievable hypothenuse off a cloth-of-silver heel, beat a small and twinkling tattoo, her fingers tattooing, too, along the chair-sides.
Dravot never winked an eye, not when ten priests took and tilted over the Grand-Master's chairwhich was to say the stone of Imbra.
Another startling fact the section of Snowdonia, and I believe of most mountain chains in these islands, would provenamely, that the contour of the earth's surface, as we see it now, depends very little, certainly in mountains composed of these elder rocks upon the lie of the strata, or beds, but has been carved out by great forces, long after those beds were not only laid down and hardened, but faulted and tilted on end.
"Well, I guess this place is too small for a fellow and a girl that can follow him around town like alike" She sat forward, grasping the table-sides, her chair tilting with her. "Don't you dare to get up and leave me sitting here!
Moments later, the craft arose and tilted in salute as it spun away beyond the horizon.
"While the bulk of the brigade swerved to the right the others held on and rode full tilt into wire entanglements buried in the grass thirty yards in front of the machine guns, and were made prisoners.
A few men lingered to watch the boats and houses; but the families had all gone inland to the winter tilts for wood and shelter.
" So Dick mounted his wild horse, grasped his rifle in his right hand, and, followed by Crusoe, galloped full tilt down the valley to meet them.
The Ramblin' Kid ignored the tilt between Dorsey and Chuck and leaned indifferently against the counter waiting for the clerk to fill out the entry blank.
Mr. Tutt was a crank on this general subject and he carried his enthusiasm so far that he was always tilting like Don Quixote at some imaginary windmill, dragging a very unwilling Sancho Panza after him in the form of his reluctant partner.
"You mightn't think it, but at this time yesterday I was going full tilt up to Edinburgh.
When I came down they were in full tilt about 'The Lady of Shalott.'
" By and by ambulances and then open wagons began to jolt and tilt past them full of ragged, grimy, bloody men wailing and groaning, no one heeding the entreaties of the three ladies to be taken in as nurses.
And nownow the prow tilted through space.
Here for one long night they watched and waited in vain; for every living thing was safe in the tilts behind barred doors.
In one there was no water, but in that at the platform, the float-lever, barely tilted toward the float, showed that there was some in the boiler.
"'Nay, our friends must hear thy eloquence and songs, Ibrahim,' said my brother, after he had held the bottle tilted above the face of the Weeper for some minutes. ''
It is so awkward to be tilted out of the frying-pan into the fire.