Preposition

(English prepositions)

Against.

* 1621 , , The Proceedings of the English Colony in Virginia [http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/john_smith.html]

Many hatchets, knives, & pieces of iron, & brass, we see, which they reported to have from the Sasquesahanocks a mighty people, and mortal enemies with the Massawomecks.

In the company of; alongside, along side of; close to; near to.

*

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In addition to; as an accessory to.

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* 1590 , Sir (Philip Sidney), (w, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia) ,

With that she told me that though she spake of her father, whom she named Chremes, she would hide no truth from me: ...

* 1697 , (Virgil), (John Dryden) (translator), '', in ''The Works of Virgil ,

With this he pointed to his face, and show'd

His hand and all his habit smear'd with blood.

* 1861 , (Alexander Pope), The Rev. George Gilfillan (editor) The Fourth Pastoral, or Daphne'', in '' The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ,

See where, on earth, the flowery glories lie,

With' her they flourish'd, and ' with her they die.

* 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2

With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)

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In support of.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)

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(obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.

* 1300s? , Political, Religious and Love Poems , “An A B C Poem on the Passion of Christ”, ed. (Frederick James Furnivall), 1866

Al þus with iewys I am dyth, I seme a wyrm to manus syth.

* , 266

Ysiphile, betrayed with Jasoun, / Maketh of your trouthe neyther boost ne soun;

* , V-ii

He was torn to / pieces with a bear:

* 1669 , (Nathaniel Morton), New England’s Memorial

He was sick and lame of the scurvy, so as he could but lie in the cabin-door, and give direction, and, it should seem, was badly assisted either with mate or mariners

Using as an instrument; by means of.

* 1430? , “The Love of Jesus” in Hymns to the Virgin and Christ , ed. (Frederick James Furnivall), 1867, p.26

Þirle my soule with þi spere anoon,

* 1619 , (Francis Beaumont) and (John Fletcher), A King and no King , Act IV

you have paid me equal, Heavens, / And sent my own rod to correct me with

* 1620 , (William Bradford). Of Plymouth Plantation [http://narcissus.umd.edu:8080/eada/html/display.jsp?docs=bradford_history.xml&action=show]

They had cut of his head upon the cudy of his boat had not the man reskued him with a sword,

* 1677 , (w), The plain-dealer , Prologue

And keep each other company in spite, / As rivals in your common mistress, fame, / And with faint praises one another damn;

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(obsolete) As nourishment, more recently replaced by on.

* , IV-iii

I am fain to dine and sup with water and bran.

Having, owning.

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Preposition

(English prepositions)

From one side of an opening to the other.

:

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838

, page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) , title= Ideas coming down the track , passage=A “moving platform” scheme

Entering, then later leaving.

:

*

*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.

*

*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= No hiding place , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.}}

Surrounded by (while moving).

:

*, chapter=1

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}

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, title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere.

By means of.

:

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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}

(lb) To (or up to) and including, with all intermediate values.

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