Choose the right preposition: He laughed a long time over that and repeated it three or four times and resolved to remember it so he could tell it _ a lot of other people. He filled a jug with whiskey and gave it to Mack. He wanted to go to live with them in the Palace Flophouse
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Choose the right preposition: Hysterically the frogs displaced from their placid spots swam ahead _ the crazy thrashing feet and the feet came on. Frogs are good swimmers but they haven't much endurance. Down the pool they went until finally they were bunched and crowded against the end
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Choose the right preposition: In addition to everything else there were the regulars – the steady customers who had been coming down for years, the laborers from the gravel pits, the riders from the ranches, the railroad men who came in the front door, and the city officials and prominent business men who came in the rear entrance back _ the tracks and who had little chintz sitting rooms assigned to them
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Choose the right preposition: In the gray time after the light has come and before the sun has risen, the Row seems to hang suspended out of time _ a silvery light. The street lights go out, and the weeds are a brilliant green.
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Choose the right preposition: It is doubtful whether the captain had ever had so much fun. He was indebted _ Mack and the boys. Later when the curtains caught fire and were put out with the little towels, the captain told the boys not to mind it
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Choose the right preposition: It was not his fault that everyone _ the Row came to him for medical advice
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Choose the right preposition: It was the busiest time the girls _ the Bear Flag could remember. Everyone was glad when it was over
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Choose the right preposition: Mrs. Talbot and her daughter _ the San Carlos Hotel had it. Tom Work had it
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Choose the right preposition: Now the captain seemed to feel that they were doing him a favor. He didn't want them to leave. He said hesitantly, "S'pose you boys would like a little something to warm you up before you go out _ the frogs?"
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Choose the right preposition: Silent early morning dogs parade majestically picking and choosing judiciously whereon to pee. The sea gulls come flapping in to sit on the cannery roofs to await the day of refuse. They sit _ the roof peaks shoulder to shoulder
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Choose the right preposition: Tens and fifties of them were flung into the gunny sacks, and the sacks filled with tired, frightened, and disillusioned frogs, with dripping, whimpering frogs. Some got away, of course, and some had been saved in the pool. But never in frog history had such an execution taken place. Frogs _ the pound, by the fifty pounds
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Choose the right preposition: The boys agreed that they wouldn't mind a short one either. The captain got a flashlight and went down in the cellar. They could hear him moving lumber and boxes about and he came back upstairs with a five-gallon oak keg _ his arms. He set it on the table.
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Choose the right preposition: The captain had found them flashlights that worked. Hughie and Jones carried gunny sacks. As they drew quietly near, the frogs heard them coming. The night had been roaring _ frog song and then suddenly it was silent.
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Choose the right preposition: The captain knocked out the oak plug from the end of the keg and got glasses down _ the shelf that had scallop-edged paper laid on it.
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Choose the right preposition: The corrugated iron _ the canneries glows with the pearly lucence of platinum or old pewter. No automobiles are running then. The street is silent of progress and business
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Choose the right preposition: The doctors of Monterey – and there were enough of them to take care of the ordinary diseases, accidents and neuroses – were running crazy. They had more business than they could do among clients who if they didn't pay their bills, _ least had the money to pay them
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Choose the right preposition: The frog pool was square – fifty feet wide and seventy feet long and four feet deep. Lush soft grass grew about its edge and a little ditch brought the water from the river to it and from it little ditches went out _ the orchards. There were frogs there all right, thousands of them
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Choose the right preposition: The girls slipped out the back door, and sometimes staying with the sleeping children the girls dropped to sleep in their chairs. They didn't use makeup _ work any more
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Choose the right preposition: The girls tried to keep up their business but they went _ shifts to sit with the families, and they carried pots of soup when they went
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Choose the right preposition: The men from the sardine fleet, loaded with dough, were in and out all afternoon. They sail _ dark and fish all night so they must play in the afternoon
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Choose the right preposition: The men of the fishing fleet and the soldiers stood in line. And the girls did their work and then they took their pots of soup and went to sit _ the Ransels, with the McCarthys, with the Ferrias
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Choose the right preposition: The others looked at Mack. Mack was frowning as though he was thinking it through. "When we're out doin' scientific stuff, we make it a kind of a rule not to touch nothin'," he said, and then quickly as though he might have gone too far, "But seein' as how you been so nice _ us – well I wouldn't mind a short one myself. I don't know about the boys."
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Choose the right preposition: The rules of the game require the frog to wait until the final flicker of a second, when the net is descending, when the lance is in the air, when the finger squeezes the trigger, then the frog jumps, plops into the water, swims _ the bottom and waits until the man goes away. That is the way it is done, the way it has always been done
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Choose the right preposition: Their voices beat the night, they boomed and barked and croaked and rattled. They sang _ the stars, to the waning moon, to the waving grasses
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Choose the right preposition: Then into the pool plunged the line of men, stamping, churning, moving _ a crazy line up the pool, flinging their feet about
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Choose the right preposition: There wasn't a house that hadn't feverish children and sick parents. It was not a deadly disease as it was _ 1917 but with children it had a tendency to go into the mastoids
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Choose the right preposition: They bellowed love songs and challenges. The men crept through the darkness toward the pool. The captain carried a nearly filled pitcher _ whiskey and every man had his own glass
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Choose the right preposition: They didn't have to. Dora herself said she could have used the total membership _the old ladies' home
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Choose the right preposition: They weren't counted but there must have been six or seven hundred. Then happily Mack tied up the necks of the sacks. They were soaking, dripping wet and the air was cool. They had a short one _ the grass before they went back to the house so they wouldn't catch cold.
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Choose the right preposition: Two men gathered them like berries. The line came out of the water and closed _ on their rear and gathered them like potatoes
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Choose the right preposition: Very few people are about, just enough to make it seem more deserted than it is. One of Dora's girls comes home _ a call on a patron too wealthy or too sick to visit the Bear Flag. Her makeup is a little sticky and her feet are tired
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