Which preposition to use with agent

of Occurrences 946%

These mighty agents of erosion, halting never through unnumbered centuries, crushed and ground the flinty lavas and granites beneath their crystal folds, wasting and building until in the fullness of time the Sierra was born again, brought to light nearly as we behold it today, with glaciers and snow-crushed pines at the top of the range, wheat-fields and orange-groves at the foot of it.

in Occurrences 330%

I even sent money to a vaudeville agent in Cincinnati.

for Occurrences 230%

| | | | D. APPLETON & CO., | | | | Sole Agent for United States.

at Occurrences 108%

Depots foot of Chambers Street, and foot of 23rd St., New | | York; No. 3 Exchange Place, and Long Dock Depot, Jersey | | City, and the Agents at the principal hotels, travelers can | | obtain just the Ticket they desire, as well as all the | | necessary information.

to Occurrences 62%

The other alpine conifersthe Needle Pine, Mountain Pine, Two-leaved Pine, and Hemlock Spruceare never thinned out by this agent to any destructive extent, on account of their admirable toughness and the closeness of their growth.

on Occurrences 39%

Will it be well," he said; and after a pause came the answer "Set not forth on Tuesday, for the stars be against thy journeying; but send thine agent on Thursday and go thyself, if need be, two days later."

from Occurrences 24%

By punishing the author of this libel, we have, in my opinion, sufficiently secured our dignity from any future attacks, we have crushed the head of the confederacy, and prevented the subordinate agents from exerting their malice.

with Occurrences 18%

"There goes the agent with my bagsthis is the local, all right.

by Occurrences 15%

From the time of Fabroni, onwards, it has been admitted that the agent by which this surprising rearrangement of the particles of the sugar is effected is the yeast.

as Occurrences 14%

I know, for I have seen, that it is possible in this way to make a child only ten years old quite as intelligent and trustworthy a free agent as his mother; to make him so sensible, so gentle, so considerate that to say "must" or "must not" to him would be as unnecessary and absurd as to say it to her.

among Occurrences 11%

Had our remarkable friend his agents among them too?

than Occurrences 8%

" "Let us err on the side of accuracy," said my father in gracious assent, "and add that the affair was rather more unfortunate for the agents than for myself.

into Occurrences 7%

Still he did not admit the agent into his confidence.

without Occurrences 6%

History is a perpetual surprise, ever developing results of which men were the agents without being the expectants.

against Occurrences 5%

Secret agents against America.

under Occurrences 5%

The same agent, Mr. Chipman, was also agent under the fourth article of the treaty of Ghent, and we find him contending there "that the northwest angle of Nova Scotia is the same designated in the grant to Sir William Alexander in 1621, subject only to such alterations as were occasioned by the erection of the Province of Quebec in 1763."

through Occurrences 4%

Throughout the next two years he was the principal agent through whom the Queen and the Prince Consort attempted to mitigate the pro-Italian policy of Lord John and Palmerston.

over Occurrences 3%

Taking the terms "revelation" and "inspiration" in the unsophisticated sense which they have borne not only in the Judaeo-Christian tradition, but in almost all the great ethnic religions as well, we may inquire into the different sorts and degrees of the control exercised by the presumably supernatural agents over the recipient of such influence.

about Occurrences 3%

They're at every elbow, and every ear, And ready at every call, Sir; The vigilant scout, plants his agents about, And has something to do with us all, Sir.

amongst Occurrences 2%

Apart from the 'âmils, Mohammed's agents amongst the Arabian tribes, the Khalifate was the only political institution which arose out of the necessity of the Moslim community, without foreign influence.

during Occurrences 2%

[Footnote 79: Relating to the manner in which the public funds have been paid out by disbursing officers and agents during 1838 and 1839.] WASHINGTON, June 6, 1840.

between Occurrences 2%

Jacopo had often been its instrument in negotiating with the mariner, who, as has been so plainly intimated, had frequently been engaged in carrying into effect its secret, and perhaps justifiable measures of police; but in no instance had it ever been found necessary to interpose a second agent between the commencement and the consummation of its bargains, except in this.

like Occurrences 1%

"An agent like you and me. K-27

out Occurrences 1%

As he remarked to me, "I thought we had some pretty big house-agents out in Kansas, but this Mr. 'A. Louer' has them beaten a mile.

AFTER Occurrences 1%

(OR, A HINT TO A HOUSE-AGENT AFTER COMING AWAY FROM HIS OFFICE.)

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