Which preposition to use with abandonment

of Occurrences 330%

Charlie's abandonment of coherent defence was against him.

to Occurrences 39%

Abandonment to an object has hitherto been his highest wisdom.

by Occurrences 9%

From the moment of their abandonment by the duke of Anjou, the United Provinces considered themselves independent; and although they consented to renew his authority over the country at large, at the solicitation of the Prince of Orange, they were resolved to confirm the influence of the latter over their particular interests, which they were now sensible could acquire stability only by that means.

in Occurrences 7%

She alone sufficed to attract him to the house, and he was greatly distressed by the dangerous state of abandonment in which he found her.

with Occurrences 2%

To begin, nobody had ever seen a flat in such an extraordinary condition, the kitchen a perfect stable, the drawing-room in a state of utter abandonment with its Louis XIV. furniture gray with dust, and the dining-room all topsy-turvy, the old oak tables and chairs being piled up against the window as if to shut out every ray of light, though nobody could tell why.

than Occurrences 2%

Truly she was up to the "tricks and the manners" of the occasion; nobody entered into it with more self-abandonment than she; she was so completely Jennie Wren that no oneat the momentthought of her in any other character, or remembered their rules of behaving according to the square of the distance.

as Occurrences 1%

Foreigners are apt to say that we children of this western world do not submit to the tender emotions with the same self-abandonment as those who are born nearer to the rising sun; that our hearts are as cold and selfish as our manners; and that we live more for the lower and grovelling passions, than for sentiment and the affections.

at Occurrences 1%

No more of passionate striving, will perverse And hampering obligations, long a curse: Free self-abandonment at last gives peace.

on Occurrences 1%

We find numerous examples in history of Queens who have suffered exile, imprisonment, and death; but we believe that the unfortunate Marie de Medicis is the only authenticated instance of a total abandonment on the part alike of her family and friends, which terminated almost in starvation.

Which preposition to use with  abandonment