Which preposition to use with adult

in Occurrences 12%

This objection, always in force, is still more objectionable at night-time, when doors and windows are closed, and amounts to a condition of poison, when placed between two adults in sleep, and shut in by bed-curtains; and when, in addition to the impurities expired from the lungs, we remember, in quiescence and sleep, how large a portion of mephitic gas is given off from the skin. 2471.

of Occurrences 12%

she, or any of the adults of her tribe, were so far converted to the Christian truth as to be either desirous or fit to be baptized.

with Occurrences 5%

One was apparently a boy of about thirteen, while the other was an adult with a dark coat.

at Occurrences 5%

It made a wondrously snug fit for two; the both of us being full-sized adults at that.

for Occurrences 5%

Considering that Germany was supposed to have been drained of its able-bodied male adults for war-making purposes we saw, among the groups, an astonishingly large number of men of military age.

to Occurrences 4%

These lessons on seeds are suitable for pupils of every age, from adults to the youngest children who go to school.

from Occurrences 3%

Then transferred adults from one container to another and then fed them.

as Occurrences 3%

Yet deeply as the child is wrapped up in his dreams, there is nothing more certain than that he is as clear as any adult as to the difference between romance and fact; and so it is no doubt with the savage, who can hardly be denied to have at least as much reason as an average child.

between Occurrences 1%

At birth the rate is about 140 times a minute, in early infancy, 120 or upwards, in the healthy adult between 65 and 75, the most common number being 72.

on Occurrences 1%

Others, again, used to spend the winter term and vacations in teaching in the rural or "district" schools to pay the expenses of the other terms, and the majority of the graduates were of these classes of men, often adults on entering, so that the class gathered seriousness as it went on.

above Occurrences 1%

He says, under No.1,'Nearly three thousand operatives out of the whole, most of them the hands of Messrs and Mr , at his own cost, employs five hundred and fifty-five girls in sewing five days a week, paying them eightpence a day; sends seventy-six youths from thirteen to fourteen years old, and three hundred and thirty-two adults above fifteen, five days a week to school, paying them from fourpence to eightpence per day, according to age.

about Occurrences 1%

"I guess," Joe said, putting the napkin ball on the table, "if I wanted to be adult about it, I'd say she was too high strungone of these people with major league talent but without the courage to use it.

among Occurrences 1%

If the children and adults among our agricultural population derive from their employments in the open air a more ruddy appearance than those either of the city or country who are confined more to their rooms; or to a vitiated atmosphere, and to numerous other sources of disease, and if they appear more favored with health, I have learned, by accurate observation, that these appearances are somewhat deceptive.

Which preposition to use with  adult