Synonyms for on:
adv. in contact; ahead of
Examples of uses:
I drew back from the rim of Writing-on-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.
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Title: Raw Gold, author: Bertrand W. Sinclair, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18563/18563-h/18563-h.htm
Kingston-on-Thames is still provincial in appearance, though now the centre of a great growth of modern suburbs.
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Title: The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries, author: Charles G. Harper, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39234/39234-h/39234-h.htm
Besides the districts mentioned, tobacco is grown largely in that of Frankfort-on-the Oder.
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Title: Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce, author: E. R. Billings., url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24471/24471-h/24471-h.htm
Madame Malmaison had always been a little proud of the beauty and grace and sweetness of her fitter-on.
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Title: The Weight of the Crown, author: Fred M. White, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36511/36511-h/36511-h.htm
Berwick-on-Tweed lies partly in England and partly in Scotland, the river which runs through it forming the boundary line.
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Title: British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car, author: Thomas D. Murphy, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17297/17297-h/17297-h.htm
Louis the Goon Engel was a mere walk-on in the piece, a spear-carrier doomed to death.
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Title: Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942, author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38466/38466-h/38466-h.htm
From Kingston-on-Thames, the perfectly kept road closely follows the river.
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Title: British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car, author: Thomas D. Murphy, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17297/17297-h/17297-h.htm
Do not think of by-standers and lookers-on; think only of the individual to whom you are addressing yourself.
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Title: The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness, author: Florence Hartley, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35123/35123-h/35123-h.htm
Afterward she ran on foot down the slope of the hill and joined the smiling crowd of lookers-on.
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Title: The Dragon Painter, author: Mary McNeil Fenollosa, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22884/22884-h/22884-h.htm
I have computed the figures for The Fatal Dowry in regard to double or feminine endings and run-on lines.
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Title: The Fatal Dowry, author: Philip Massinger, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44015/44015-h/44015-h.htm
