Which preposition to use with adonis

of Occurrences 5%

" His light, agreeable, polished style pierces through the body of the courthits off the faded graces of "an Adonis of fifty", weighs the vanity of fashion in tremulous scales, mimics the grimace of affectation and folly, shews up the littleness of the great, and spears a phalanx of statesmen with its glittering point as with a diamond broach.

into Occurrences 4%

Disregarding details, we may perhaps say that the whole subject of his Elegy is treated by Shelley as a transposition of the lament, as conceived by Bion, of the Cyprian Aphrodite for Adonis; and that, as he changes the Cyprian into the Uranian Aphrodite, so he changes the dead youth from Adonis into Adonais.

to Occurrences 3%

And Ida; Aphroditè radiant-eyed; The stealthy-footed Hours from Acheron's rill Brought once again Adonis to thy side How changed in twelve short months!

from Occurrences 3%

Whose annual Wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian Damsels to lament his fate, In amorous Ditties all a Summers day, While smooth Adonis from his native Rock Ran purple to the Sea, supposed with Blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded: the Love tale Infected Zion's Daughters with like Heat, Whose wanton Passions in the sacred Porch Ezekiel saw, when by the Vision led His Eye survey'd the dark Idolatries Of alienated Judah.

in Occurrences 3%

Particularly the incongruous description of Duncan Campbell's first appearance in London, where the writer finds the "heavenly youth" seated like a young Adonis in the "center of an angelic tribe" of "the most beautiful females that ever my eyes beheld," etc.

for Occurrences 2%

Is it Adonis for the chase arrayed?

across Occurrences 1%

Maude was half mad with mortification, and, quite unable to leave Ida's hated side, she raised her whip and struck Adonis across the face.

by Occurrences 1%

They are called Bubble and Squeak by some of their neighbours; Venus and Adonis by others.

among Occurrences 1%

The prince of the blood, in my estimation, was "Lord Cobham," a cream-colored bull, with which compared that famous animal in Greek mythology which played himself off as such an Adonis among the bovines, must have been a shabby, scraggy quadruped.

through Occurrences 1%

But that for which he was looking so intently did not appear; his spirits fellthough the sun was still shiningand he sighed impatiently, and putting Adonis through the stream, cantered over the moor at the foot of the hills.

Which preposition to use with  adonis