Which preposition to use with bible

in Occurrences 202%

Feeling keenly his own weakness he bought a large Bible, and placed it open on the table in his sitting-room, determined that an open Bible in the future should be his colours.

for Occurrences 59%

It is that Faust went to Paris with some of his Bibles for sale, one of which, printed on vellum and richly illuminated, he sold to the King for seven hundred and fifty crowns, and another to the Archbishop of Paris for three hundred crowns, and to the poorer clergy and the laity copies on paper as low as fifty crowns, and even less.

of Occurrences 54%

Thus Francis Galton, in the preface to the "Bible of Eugenics," his essays on Hereditary Genius, declares: "There is nothing either in the history of domestic animals or in that of evolution to make us doubt that a race of sane men may be formed who shall be as much superior, mentally and morally, to the Modern European, as the Modern European is to the lowest of the Negro races.

as Occurrences 51%

We should know the Bible as literature, not as one knows a story-book, or a dialect-exercise, but as one knows the melodies and memories of childhood.

to Occurrences 43%

The small boy when the preacher's notes fluttered out of the Bible to the floor.

into Occurrences 36%

As Evangelicals their first step was to translate the Bible into all the living languages and current scripts of the Nearer East.

on Occurrences 35%

" "Herehere's a brand-new hotel Bible on the table, dearie.

from Occurrences 34%

ing the Bible from her lap.

Against Occurrences 30%

The Bible Against Slavery.

with Occurrences 23%

It was true that Britain always carried the Bible with herbut this was mere British cant.

at Occurrences 21%

Gardner, to whom, with others, he was giving lessons in languages; and as a result of his intercourse with this man he became again the same simple loving believer that he had been when he learnt to read the Bible at his mother's knee, or braved the taunts of his school-fellows.

by Occurrences 11%

Then arose the great Alexandrian school of theology, which attempted to explain and harmonize the revealed truths of the Bible by Grecian dialectics.

about Occurrences 9%

It tells in the Bible about children's angels always seein' the face of God, so's to know quick what to do for 'em, I suppose; and I'm sure her'n got to her afore the tornado; for though the house-roof had blowed off, and the chimbley tumbled down, there wa'n't a splinter nor a brick on her bed, only close by the head on't a great hunk of stone had fell down, and steadied up the clothes-press from tumblin' right on top of her.

under Occurrences 7%

He shoved a pocket Bible under my nose.

without Occurrences 7%

I should never get along in the Bible without it.

among Occurrences 7%

Some she induced to send their children to school, and, with the consent of the priest, circulated the Bible among them.

before Occurrences 6%

He has good action, can put out considerable canvas when very warm, smacks the pulpit sides with his hands when, particularly earnest, and occasionally makes a direct aim at the Bible before him, and hits it.

through Occurrences 5%

I read the Bible through when I was about your age, and I think there are some forms of sin I never should have hated so intensely if I had not learned about them in the way God thinks best to teach us his abhorrence of them.

out Occurrences 4%

I like that old, kind legend Not found in Holy Writ, And wish that John or Matthew Had made Bible out of it.

beside Occurrences 2%

In St. Kitts once I drank wine with a most respectable merchant, a man who carried the Bible beside his snuff box, and referred to both almost as frequently as he did to the profit and balance on his ledger.

toward Occurrences 1%

And she tossed his desecrated Bible toward the peach crate; but missing its aim, the book slid along the floor with a slight rustle, almost like a sigh, and struck the chair-board behind the washtubs, where it lay limp and forgotten.

via Occurrences 1%

His hostess, who looked as though she had come straight out of the Bible via Bond Street, and his host, who looked as though he had never come out of Petticoat Lane at all, both accused him of being unable to work out the problem of "Find Calcutta Time given the Standard Time," and he professed to be proud to be able to acknowledge the truth of the compliment.

around Occurrences 1%

Is there anybody got a Bible around 'em?

than Occurrences 1%

But a much more prolific source of injury to the character of the Bible than that just mentioned is the injudicious and impertinent labors of many who volunteer in its defence.

near Occurrences 1%

He drew the Bible near him, and laid his hand on the head of Fido who cuddled close beside.

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