tained).
Confer _on_ (_upon_) (give to). Reconcile _to_ (note below).
Confide _in_ (trust in). Reconcile _with_ (note below).
Confide _to_ (intrust to). A taste _of_ (food).
Correspond _with_ (write to). A taste _for_ (art, etc.).
Correspond _to_ (a thing).

"Correspond _with_" is sometimes used of things, as meaning _to be in
keeping with_.

"Differ _from_" is used in speaking of unlikeness between things or
persons; "differ _from_" and "differ _with_" are both used in speaking
of persons disagreeing as to opinions.

"Reconcile _to_" is used with the meaning of _resigned to_, as, "The
exile became reconciled _to_ his fate;" also of persons, in the sense
of making friends with, as, "The king is reconciled _to_ his
minister." "Reconcile _with_" is used with the meaning of _make to
agree with_, as, "The statement must be reconciled _with_ his previous
conduct."

[Sidenote: _List III_.: _Words taking anyone of several prepositions
for the same meaning_.]

463. LIST III.

Die _by_, die _for_, die _from_, die _of_, die _with_.
Expect _of_, expect _from_.
Part _from_, part _with_.

Illustrations of "die _of_," "die _from_," etc.:--

[Sidenote: "_Die_ of."]

The author died _of_ a fit of apoplexy.--BOSWELL.

People do not die _of_ trifling little colds.--AUSTEN

Fifteen officers died _of_ fever in a day.--MACAULAY.

It would take me long to die _of_ hunger.--G. ELIOT.

She died _of_ hard work, privation, and ill treatment.--BURNETT.

[Sidenote: "_Die_ from."]

She saw her husband at last literally die _from_ hunger.--BULWER.

He died at last without disease, simply _from_ old age.
--_Athenaeum._

No one _died from_ want at Longfeld.--_Chambers' Journal._

[Sidenote: "_Die_ with."]

She would have been ready to die _with_ shame.--G. ELIOT.

I am positively dying _with_ hunger.--SCOTT.

I thought the two Miss Flamboroughs would have died _with_
laughing.--GOLDSMITH.

I wish that the happiest here may not die _with_ envy.--POPE.

[Sidenote: "_Die_ for." (_in behalf of_).]

Take thought and die _for_ Caesar.--SHAKESPEARE.

One of them said he would die _for_ her.--GOLDSMITH.

It is a man of quality who dies _for_ her.--ADDISON.

[Sidenote: "_Die_ for." (_because of_).]

Who, as Cervantes informs us, died _for_ love of the fai