from Africa,
_via_ Cuba."--_Society in America_, i, 327. "_Pending_ the discussion of
this subject, a memorial was presented."--_Gov. Everett_.

"Darts his experienced eye and soon _traverse_
The whole battalion views their order due."--_Milton_.

"Because, when _thorough_ deserts vast
And regions desolate they past."--_Hudibras_.

OBS. 15.--_Minus_, less, _plus_, more, _per_, by, _versus_, towards, or
against, and _via_, by the way of, are Latin words; and it is not very
consistent with the _purity_ of our tongue, to use them as above. _Sans_,
without, is French, and not now heard with us. _Afore_ for _before, atween_
for _between, traverse_ for _across, thorough_ for _through_, and _withal_
for _with_, are obsolete. _Withal_ was never placed before its object, but
was once very common at the end of a sentence. I think it not properly a
preposition, but rather an adverb. It occurs in Shakspeare, and so does
_sans_; as,

"I did laugh, _sans_ intermission, an hour by his dial."
--_As You Like It_.

"I pr'ythee, _whom_ doth he trot _withal_?"
--_Ib._

"_Sans_ teeth, _sans_ eyes, _sans_ taste, _sans_ every thing."
--_Ib._

OBS. 16.--Of the propriety and the nature of such expressions as the
following, the reader may now judge for himself: "In consideration of what
passes sometimes _within-side of_ those vehicles."--_Spectator_, No. 533.
"Watch over yourself, and let nothing throw you _off from_ your
guard."--_District School_, p. 54. "The windows broken, the door _off from_
the hinges, the roof open and leaky."--_Ib._, p. 71. "He was always a
shrewd observer of men, _in and out of_ power."--_Knapp's Life of Burr_, p.
viii. "Who had never been broken _in to_ the experience of sea
voyages."--_Timothy Flint_. "And there came a fire _out from before_ the
Lord."--_Leviticus_, ix, 24. "Because eight readers _out of_ ten, it is
believed, forget it."--_Brown's Estimate_, ii, 32. "Fifty days after the
_Passover_, and _their coming out of_ Egypt."--_Watts's Script. Hist._, p.
57. "As the mountains are _round about_ Jerusalem, so the Lord is _round
about_ his people."--_Psal._, cxxv, 2. "Literally, 'I proceeded _forth from
out of_ God and am come.'"--_Gurney's Essays_, p. 161. "But he that came
_down from_ (or _from out of_) heaven."--_Ibid._

"Here none the last funereal rights receive;
To be cast _forth the camp_, is all their friends can give."
--_Rowe