Thou didst look down _upon_ the naked earth.--BRYANT.
The demonstration of joy or sorrow _on_ reading their letters. --BANCROFT.
_On_ Monday evening he sent forward the Indians.--PARKMAN.
(3) _Reference_, equal to _about_, _concerning_, etc.
I think that one abstains from writing _on_ the immortality of the soul.--EMERSON.
He pronounced a very flattering opinion _upon_ my brother's promise of excellence.--DE QUINCEY.
_On_ my life, you are eighteen, and not a day more.--ALDRICH.
_Upon_ my reputation and credit.--SHAKESPEARE
(5) _Idiomatic phrases_: _on fire_, _on board_, _on high_, _on the wing_, _on the alert_, _on a sudden_, _on view_, _on trial_, etc.
Exercise.--Find sentences with three uses of _on_ or _upon_.
325. Some uses of to are the following:--
(1) _Expressing motion_: (_a_) To a place.
Come _to_ the bridal chamber, Death!--HALLECK.
Rip had scrambled _to_ one of the highest peaks.--IRVING.
Full of schemes and speculations _to_ the last.--PARTON.
Revolutions, whose influence is felt _to_ this hour.--PARKMAN.
He usually gave his draft to an aid...to be written over,--often _to_ the loss of vigor.--BENTON
_To_ our great delight, Ben Lomond was unshrouded.--B. TAYLOR
But when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, 'Tis ten _to_ one you find the girl in tears. --ALDRICH
They are arrant rogues: Cacus was nothing _to_ them.--BULWER.
Bolingbroke and the wicked Lord Littleton were saints _to_ him.--WEBSTER
_To_ the few, it may be genuine poetry.--BRYANT.
His brother had died, had ceased to be, _to_ him.--HALE.
Little mattered _to_ them occasional privations--BANCROFT.
Nor, _to_ my taste, does the mere music...of your style fall far below the highest efforts of poetry.--LANG.
We cook the dish _to_ our own appetite.--GOLDSMITH.
(6) _With the infinitive_ (see Sec. 268).
Exercise.--Find sentences containing three uses of _to_.
326. With expresses the idea of accompaniment, and hardly any of its applications vary from this general signification.
In Old English, _mid_ meant _in company with_, while _wið_ meant _against_: both meanings are included in the modern _with_.
The following meanings are expressed by _with_:--
The advance, _with_ Heyward at its head, had already reached the defile.--COOPER.
For many weeks I had walked _with_ this poor friendless girl.--DE QUINCEY.