Which preposition to use with adversary

of Occurrences 58%

Darius felt, however, the critical nature to himself as well as to his adversary of the coming encounter.

in Occurrences 47%

They each reproached their adversaries in the coarsest language, and attributed to them the vilest principles and motives.

with Occurrences 30%

Grundy made no attempt at any display of science; he simply relied on his superior strength and size, and charged down upon his adversary with the intention of thumping and pounding him till he gave in.

to Occurrences 18%

He has heard, as well as I, that when great honors and great emoluments do not win over this knowledge to the service of the state, it is a formidable adversary to government.

at Occurrences 14%

He feigns drunkenness, but the Colonel suspects him of having been his adversary at the ball.

by Occurrences 11%

'There is no case in England where one or other of the combatants must die: if you have overcome your adversary by disarming him, that is sufficient, though you should not kill him; your honour, or the honour of your family, is restored, as much as it can be by a duel.

on Occurrences 8%

Then he bent to the attack, and touched his adversary on breast and arm and thigh, his point reaching its mark with ease and seeming slowness.

from Occurrences 7%

He must fall back in the direction of Richmond, to prevent his adversary from attacking his rear, and capturing or destroying his army.

as Occurrences 6%

The game is to make seven points by hitting the adversary as many times, and he who wins receives the exiguous stakes for which they play.

than Occurrences 4%

The goosey-gander had not expected a more dangerous adversary than an owl, and how he understood that he could not escape this encounter with his life.

through Occurrences 4%

There had been a struggle in the dim light, and Byron, having received the first lunge harmlessly in his waistcoat, had shortened his sword and run his adversary through the body, with the boast, not uncharacteristic of his grand nephew, "By G-d, I have as much courage as any man in England.

out Occurrences 3%

In Hazlitt's fine account of "The Fight," Hickman or the Gas-Man, "vapoured and swaggered too much, as if he wanted to grin and bully his adversary out of the fight."

without Occurrences 3%

She never made a revoke, nor ever passed it over in her adversary without exacting the utmost forfeiture.

against Occurrences 3%

There is an adversary against you, who will surely deliver you to the judge some day, and then it will be too late to cry for mercy.

under Occurrences 3%

And to entitle these experiments to the more favorable consideration they were so framed as to enable her to place her adversary under the exclusive operation of them.

about Occurrences 2%

The Marquis de Coeuvres, who at once felt that M. de Soissons was in no position to maintain single-handed any effectual opposition to the host of adversaries about to be marshalled against him, lost not a moment in seeking to convince him that he had but one prospect of avoiding the disgrace by which he was threatened.

for Occurrences 2%

the motley crowd from Accomac were no fit adversaries for those stern backwoodsmen.

off Occurrences 2%

Each knight, clad in tin-foil and armed cap-a-pie, riding in each other's direction just as fast as possible with an uncontrollable desire to push one's adversary off his horse, which meant defeat, because no man could ever climb a horse in full armor without a feudal derrick to assist him.

opposite Occurrences 1%

In a few weeks after the appearance of the adversaries opposite each other at Petersburg, the lines of leaguer and defence were drawn, and the long struggle began.

like Occurrences 1%

That this disposition of the Federal troops was faulty, in face of adversaries like Johnston and Lee, there could be no doubt.

into Occurrences 1%

Instant measures were taken for this purpose; and meanwhile the favourite, lulled into false security, was wholly unconscious of this new conspiracy, believing that by his late deed of blood he had awed all his adversaries into submission.

during Occurrences 1%

Each day the debate grew more animated and personal; charges were made and recriminations followed: the republicans enumerated the acts of misrule and oppression under the government of the late protector; the courtiers balanced the account with similar instances from the proceedings of their adversaries during the sway of the long parliament; the orators, amidst the [Footnote 1: Thurloe, 559, 609, 615.]

behind Occurrences 1%

Once he was nearly taken in by an unusually perfect imitation of a wild gobbler; but he finally became suspicious, and "placed" his adversary behind a large tree.

among Occurrences 1%

The hem of my nightshirt tickled my shin and my feet grew cold on the carpet; but though I stood ready with my fists clenched I could see no adversary among the friendly shadows, I could hear no sound but the I drumming of the blood against the walls of my head.

along Occurrences 1%

The encounter took place just outside the stronghold of the enemy, the Birchite so far getting the best of it that at the end of a five minutes' engagement he proclaimed his victory by dragging his adversary along by the collar and bumping his head a number of times against the very gates of Horace House.

Which preposition to use with  adversary