Which preposition to use with accept

in Occurrences 626%

Donations are accepted in a number of other ways including including checks, online payments and credit card donations.

as Occurrences 496%

It was extraordinary, the unquestioning and entire faith with which they accepted as gospel fact the negro's dictum.

of Occurrences 291%

Our walk having now made us hungry and fatigued, we gladly accepted of his hospitality; whereupon he alighted, and walked with us to his lodgings.

with Occurrences 176%

I was the fourth accepted with my qualificationsdriving my own car andand physical fitness.

without Occurrences 74%

So many absurd or perverting mistakes are still made about the life and times of Carleton, and a full understanding of his career is of such vital importance to Canadian history, that no accounts given in the general run of booksincluding many so-called 'standard works'should be accepted without reference to the original authorities.

for Occurrences 72%

But accepting for the moment his evidence as true the case against the prisoner amounts to this: by threats of exposure Birchill compelled Hill to consent to Riversbrook being robbed while the owner was in Scotland.

at Occurrences 58%

"I mean," said Godfrey, looking him squarely in the eye, "that Mr. Shearrow and myself had a talk with the mayor this morning, and laid before him certain evidence in our possessionthis latest case among othersand that your resignation was accepted at noon to-day.

from Occurrences 58%

Even the legends, which were uncritically accepted from the days of Livy to those of our grandfathers, are provokingly silent upon the very points as to which we would fain get at least a hint.

on Occurrences 56%

If you accept on some of that stationery I ordered for you with a colossal gold coronet, that will already be of some effect.

under Occurrences 8%

During the greater part of his rule as duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold was at war with Louis XI of France, notwithstanding the treaty of Péronne, 1468, which the French monarch accepted under duress.

after Occurrences 5%

It is true that, late in the day, Austria avowed that she had no intention of annexing Serbian territory, a declaration which Germans did not believe, and certainly one which Russia had no reason to accept after Austria's annexion of Bosnia and Herzegowina in 1908.

through Occurrences 5%

We are in Christ when we believe in him and are accepted through the merit of his blood and brought by adoption into the family of God, but not until he abides in our hearts shall our lives become as beautiful as God means them to be.

among Occurrences 4%

This harmless piece of melodramathe idea of which is expanded in Mr. Dobell's Balder, and parodied in Firmilianmay have been the basis of a report afterwards circulated, and accepted among others by Goethe, that his lordship had committed a murder; hence, obviously, the character of Lara, and the mystery of Manfred!

than Occurrences 4%

For Silas Blackburn was a reincarnation more difficult to accept than any ghost.

by Occurrences 4%

Her eagerness to accept by anticipation whatever degradation and pain domestic power could inflict, when released by the terrible alternative of legal prosecution from its usual limits, breathed more of doubt and terror than of shame or penitence.

into Occurrences 3%

He does not exclude from the Church of Christ (say they) those whom we do not accept into the communion of our particular Society, any more than the House of Lords excludes Commoners from being Members of Parliament.

before Occurrences 3%

The letter was from Mr. Fleischhauer, who begged to transmit to the Marquis de Chelles an offer for his Boucher tapestries from a client prepared to pay the large sum named on condition that it was accepted before his approaching departure for America.

to Occurrences 3%

This is not the standard which reason accepts to-day, I grant; but it is the standard by which Becket must be judged,even as the standard which justified the encroachments of Leo the Great, or the rigorous rule of Tiberius and Marcus Aurelius, is not that which enthrones Gustavus Adolphus and William of Orange in the heart of the civilized world.

against Occurrences 2%

Lest it should be accepted against him, Shakspere did well to leave it out.

amongst Occurrences 2%

I leave both to your sense of right, if indeed yours can be the same as that usually accepted amongst honourable people.

within Occurrences 2%

The Omsk Government could have got money on better terms than any of the Allies, because, accepted within the comity of nations, it could have given better security than any of them, even including America.

like Occurrences 2%

It is a conclusion arrived at by metaphysical reasoning, which has very little to do with practical Christianity, and which, imposed as a dogma of belief, to be accepted like plain declarations of Scripture, is an insult to the human understanding.

about Occurrences 2%

The white-robed maidens shrank back shyly until the box was pressed upon them, when each, at a word from the mistress, selected some small gold or silver locket or chain; each at once placing the article accepted about her person, with an evident intention of adding to the grace with which it was received and acknowledging the intended courtesy.

during Occurrences 1%

I could tell by the atmosphere which the incident created that our Allies thought this regular conduct wholly out of place on a battlefield, but it fulfilled its purpose, and surrenders were accepted during the further operations.

itfor Occurrences 1%

Oh, how nice it is, Monsieur Basil, to look through a telescope!" "Do me the favor, ma belle, to accept itfor my sake," said I, thankful to find her so easily entertained.

Which preposition to use with  accept