Definition of "with"

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.

1621, John Smith, The Proceedings of the English Colony in Virginia‎

No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or […] . And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., page 46

With that she told me that though she spake of her father, whom she named Chremes, she would hide no truth from me: […]

1590, Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

With this he pointed to his face, and show'dHis hand and all his habit smear'd with blood.

1697, Virgil, “Aeneid”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil

See where, on earth, the flowery glories lie,With her they flourish'd, and with her they die.

1861, Alexander Pope, “The Fourth Pastoral, or Daphne”, in The Rev. George Gilfillan, editor, The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope‎

With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.

1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus

The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing", […] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48

Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.

2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3

He was torn to / pieces with a bear:

c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene ii]

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

1669, Nathaniel Morton, New England’s Memorial

But several sowing of Wheat at that time, because 'twas the usual time of doing of it, it lay in the Ground till Rain came, which was the latter end of October first, and then but part of it came up neither, because it was mustied and spoiled with lying so long in the Ground […]

1721, John Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry, page 61

you have paid me equal, Heavens, / And sent my own rod to correct me with

, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “A King and no King”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, Act IV, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

They had cut of his head upon the cudy of his boat had not the man reskued him with a sword,

1620, William Bradford., Of Plymouth Plantation‎

And keep each other company in spite, / As rivals in your common mistress, fame, / And with faint praises one another damn;

1677, William Wycherley, The plain-dealer, Prologue

As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.

2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist

I am fain to dine and sup with water and bran.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iii]

As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.

2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist

Are you still with me? Good. I was worried, because you may not think you need a lightweight rifle.

1983 May, David E. Petzal, “The Lightweight Division”, in Field & Stream‎

And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Judges 16:7