On Monday evening he sent forward the Indians.—­PARKMAN.

Upon is seldom used to express time.

(3) Reference, equal to about, concerning, etc.

     I think that one abstains from writing on the immortality of
     the soul.—­EMERSON.

     He pronounced a very flattering opinion upon my brother’s
     promise of excellence.—­DE QUINCEY.

(4) In adjurations.

     On my life, you are eighteen, and not a day more.—­ALDRICH.

     Upon my reputation and credit.—­SHAKESPEARE

(5) Idiomatic phrases:  on fire, on board, on high, on the wing, on the alert, on a sudden, on view, on trial, etc.

Exercise.—­Find sentences with three uses of on or upon.

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.

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 wieth meant against:  both meanings are included in the modern with.