With
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_:--
(1) _Personal accompaniment._
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.
(2) _Instrumentality._
_With_ my crossbow I shot the albatross.--COLERIDGE.
Either _with_ the swingle-bar, or _with_ the haunch of our near
leader, we had struck the off-wheel of the little gig.--DE
QUINCEY.
(3) _Cause, reason, motive._
He was wild _with_ delight about Texas.--HALE.
She seemed pleased _with_ the accident.--HOWELLS.
(4) _Estimation, opinion._
How can a writer's verses be numerous if _with_ him, as _with_
you, "poetry is not a pursuit, but a pleasure"?--LANG.
It seemed a supreme moment _with_ him.--HOWELLS.
(5) _Opposition_.
After battling _with_ terrific hurricanes and typhoons on every
known sea.--ALDRICH.
The quarrel of the sentimentalists is not _with_ life, but _with_
you.--LANG.
(6) _The equivalent of_ notwithstanding, in spite of.
_With_ all his sensibility, he gave millions to the
sword.--CHANNING.
Messala, _with_ all his boldness, felt it unsafe to trifle
further.--WALLACE
(7) _Time._
He expired _with_ these words.--SCOTT.
_With_ each new mind a new secret of nature transpires.--EMERSON.
Exercise.--
Find sentences with four uses of _with_.
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