Chapter VIII Of Prepositions
Prepositions are, for the most part, put before nouns and pronouns: as, “out of the frying-pan into the fire.”
The preposition of is sometimes used as a part of speech of peculiar signification, and one to which no name has as yet been applied: as, “What you been doing of?”
At and up are not rarely used as verbs, but we should scarcely have been justified in so classing them by the authority of any polite writer; such use of them being confined to the vulgar: as, “Now then, Bill, at him again.”
“So she upped with her fists, and fetched him a whop.”
After is improperly pronounced arter, and against, agin: as, “Hallo! Jim, vot are you arter? don’t you know that ere’s agin the Law?”