Which preposition to use with addressing

to Occurrences 2508%

He agreed willingly to receive the package addressed to him, which proved to be a grand piano.

of Occurrences 608%

In short, of all those spectators who are present to witness the powers and address of the prize-fighters, not one in a hundred can tell who has gained the victory, until the judges have proclaimed it.

in Occurrences 303%

Please address in confidence,.

on Occurrences 166%

Either of the above sent free by mail to any address on | | receipt of the price.

as Occurrences 139%

"Why, no," stammered the man addressed as Thrackles.

at Occurrences 111%

It had been sent to her address at home and forwarded by Mrs. Bradley.

from Occurrences 86%

A glowing, bombastic address from 'The Free French to their Canadian Brothers' (who of course were 'slaves') was even read out at more than one church door.

by Occurrences 60%

'To have an M under (or by) the Girdle' was a proverbial expression = to have a courteous address by using the titles Mr., Mrs., Miss, &c. cf.

for Occurrences 50%

The Brahmin remarking an elderly man, who seemed very quiet in the midst of all this ferment, he thought him a proper person to address for information.

before Occurrences 44%

This conversion was probably due to the fact that he had in his own mind worked out, as one of the essential bases of peace, to which he was then giving much thought, a mutual guaranty of territorial integrity and political independence, which had been the chief article of a proposed Pan-American Treaty prepared early in 1915 and to which he referred in his address before the League to Enforce Peace.

with Occurrences 38%

But it is addressed with all propriety to his 'venerable uncle.'

without Occurrences 7%

The young man had not made his addresses without leave obtained from the parents; he had been acceptable to the daughter from the commencement of their acquaintance; and she had only asked time to reflect, ere she gave her answer, when he proposed, a day or two before the family left New York.

under Occurrences 4%

The instructions of Washington were then read to him; and Lee particularly cautioned him to exercise the utmost circumspection in delivering the letters, and to take care to withhold from the two individuals addressed under feigned names, knowledge of each other.

after Occurrences 4%

But results define causes; and from after events it is not improbable that Mr. Jinks made an eloquent and stirring oration, addressed after the manner of all great orators to the prejudices of the auditor, and indicative of Mr. Jinks' intention to overwhelm, with defeat and destruction, the anti-Germanic league and pageant, on St. Michael's day.

against Occurrences 3%

And this pastime they do not as we with dogs, but with men, and the bull quite free, and, save for the needless killing of horses, I think this a very noble exercise, being a fair trial of human address against brute force.

behind Occurrences 3%

They have scoured the whole district, and it is certain that Alexandre-Honore left no address behind him when he went off with those three hundred francs.

out Occurrences 3%

'He's just gorn to try and bobo-borrow some money to go away with.' "She bust out sobbing, and it was all I could do to get the godfather's address out of 'er.

of Occurrences 3%

" "Take Tsz-hwa, then; what of him?" "Tsz-hwa," said he, "with a cincture girt upon him, standing as attendant at Court, might be charged with the addressing of visitors and guests; but as to his good-naturedness I cannot answer.

through Occurrences 3%

After questioning Norine at length, he guessed that Alexandre must have learnt her address through La Couteau, though he could not say precisely how this had come about.

unto Occurrences 2%

He is a gamester who throws at all ladies that are set him, but is always out, and never wins but when he throws at the candlestick, that is, for nothing; a general lover, that addresses unto all but never gains any, as universals produce nothing.

like Occurrences 2%

By addresses like this, my lords, have the rights of the nation been silently given up, and the invaders of liberty, and violators of our laws, preserved from prosecution; by such addresses have our monarchs been ruined at one time, and our country enslaved at another.

into Occurrences 2%

That last remark has been made many, many times, and yet it never fails of its effect, which is at once to invest the speaker with daintiness indescribable, and to thrust the man addressed into nether inferiority.

about Occurrences 1%

Accordingly Catulus received permission to speak, since all respected and honored him as one who at all times spoke and acted for their advantage, and delivered an address about as follows:

beyond Occurrences 1%

But this failed to explain the mystery, since I had mentioned no address beyond "Kensington."

beside Occurrences 1%

Some half-dozen letters lay folded and addressed beside himone directed to his wife.

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