16 Verbs to Use for the Word on

The approach was from the south, but suspicious aspects of the water had fended the cruiser out and around, until now she stood prow-on to a bold headland at the northwest corner of the island.

The accumulation of knowledge has been so great, that we are lost in wonder at the height it has reached, instead of attempting to climb or add to it; while the variety of objects distracts and dazzles the looker-on.

So they had been set on fire or blown up, or allowed to drive head-on into a stone wall or over an embankment.

And overspread with phantom light, 10 (With swimming phantom light o'erspread But rimmed and circled by a silver thread) I see the old Moon in her lap, foretelling The coming-on of rain and squally blast.

"AND YOU MAY THANK YOUR STARS I'VE GOT A MUZZLE ON!" * *

s on de plantation cussin' en gwine on wid dere dancin' en foolishness, he use' ter tell 'em 'bout religion en jedgmen'-day, w'en dey would haf ter gin account fer eve'y idle word en all dey yuther sinful kyarin's-on.

They heard grand goings-on inside the store, both talking at once, and Fredrik setting up a laugh now and again; then Aronsen threw open the door and showed his visitor out.

"We will hold-on to the last, while he must begin to take in soon, or the squall will come upon him too fast for a light-handed vessel.

Some of the machines which perform the winding-on of the yarn are comparatively simple, while others are more or less complicated.

Everybody said rash-ons, while I, though I had never before had occasion to use the word, had thought of it as rãtions.

All dat hangin' seemed to squelch a heap o' lousy goin's-on.

The beach shelved steeply, and her stern lay well afloat; nor was there any run of sea to baffle him by throwing her broadside-on to the stones.

The biggest house was enclosed by a stockade of palm- logs, thrust end-on into the ground.

For what else is the assumption underlying this anxious urging-on of organisations for teaching?

It is now definitely established that the sainted warrior's habit of trying to carry-on in two places at the same time was the subject of much adverse criticism by the military experts of the period.

It woke her, and she threw on her dress, and sat down for a while on the window-sill, to watch the coming-on of the day.

16 Verbs to Use for the Word  on