Citations:with

Preposition

 * 1) against
 * He picked a fight with the class bully.
 * 1) * 1621, John Smith, The Proceedings of the English Colony in Virginia
 * Many hatchets, knives, & pieces of iron, & brass, we see, which they reported to have from the Sasquesahanocks a mighty people, and mortal enemies with the Massawomecks
 * 1) in the company of; alongside, along side of; close to; near to:
 * He went with his friends.
 * 1) in addition to; as an accessory to:
 * She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
 * 1) in support of:
 * We are with you all the way.
 * 1)  To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
 * slain with robbers
 * 1) * 1300s?, Political, Religious and Love Poems, “An A B C Poem on the Passion of Christ”, ed. Frederick James Furnivall, 1866
 * Al þus with iewys I am dyth, I seme a wyrm to manus syth.
 * 1) * c1460, Merlin, or the Early History of King Arthur, ed. Henry Benjamin Wheatley, 1875
 * And so it was comaunded to be kept with x noble men; and thei were charge to take goode hede who com to assaien, and yef eny ther were that myght drawen out of the ston.
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 * He was torn to / pieces with a bear:
 * 1) * 1630, John Smith, Travels of Captaine John Smith, 1907 edition, Vol. II, p. 42
 * At Flowers we were againe chased with foure French men of warre
 * 1) * 1669, Nathaniel Morton, New England’s Memorial
 * He was sick and lame of the scurvy, so as he could but lie in the cabin-door, and give direction, and, it should seem, was badly assisted either with mate or mariners
 * 1) as an instrument; by means of
 * cut with a knife
 * 1) * 1430?, “The Love of Jesus” in Hymns to the Virgin and Christ, ed. Frederick James Furnivall, 1867, p.26
 * Þirle my soule with þi spere anoon,
 * 1) * 1619, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, A King and no King, Act IV
 * you have paid me equal, Heavens, / And sent my own rod to correct me with
 * 1) * 1620, William Bradford. Of Plymouth Plantation
 * They had cut of his head upon the cudy of his boat had not the man reskued him with a sword,
 * 1) * 1677, William Wycherley, The plain-dealer, Prologue
 * And keep each other company in spite, / As rivals in your common mistress, fame, / And with faint praises one another damn;
 * 1)  as nourishment, more recently replaced by on
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 * I am fain to dine and sup with water and bran
 * I am fain to dine and sup with water and bran