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 wið meant against: both meanings are included in the modern with.
The following meanings are expressed by with:—
(1) Personal accompaniment.
The advance, with Heyward at its head, had already reached the defile.—Cooper.
For many weeks I had walked with this poor friendless girl.—De Quincey.
(2) Instrumentality.
With my crossbow I shot the albatross.—Coleridge.
Either with the swingle-bar, or with the haunch of our near leader, we had struck the off-wheel of the little gig.—De Quincey.
(3) Cause, reason, motive.
He was wild with delight about Texas.—Hale.
She seemed pleased with the accident.—Howells.
(4) Estimation, opinion.
How can a writer's verses be numerous if with him, as with you, "poetry is not a pursuit, but a pleasure"?—Lang.
It seemed a supreme moment with him.—Howells.
After battling with terrific hurricanes and typhoons on every known sea.—Aldrich.
The quarrel of the sentimentalists is not with life, but with you.—Lang.
(6) The equivalent of notwithstanding, in spite of.
With all his sensibility, he gave millions to the sword.—Channing.
Messala, with all his boldness, felt it unsafe to trifle further.—Wallace
(7) Time.
He expired with these words.—Scott.
With each new mind a new secret of nature transpires.—Emerson.
Exercise.—Find sentences with four uses of with.