To
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.
(_b_) Referring to time.
Full of schemes and speculations _to_ the last.--PARTON.
Revolutions, whose influence is felt _to_ this hour.--PARKMAN.
(2) _Expressing result._
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
(3) _Expressing comparison._
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
(4) _Expressing concern, interest._
_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.
(5) _Equivalent to_ according to.
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_.
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