Which preposition to use with ages

of Occurrences 4435%

True, an incredible age of years had passed, since I approached the window; but that was evidently as nothing, compared with the countless spaces of time that, I conceived, had vanished whilst I was sleeping.

in Occurrences 510%

So, rolling our pants up above our knees (there was no use of talking about shoes and stockings; such luxuries were not within the range of indulgence to boys of our age in those days, save in the frosts and snows of winter, and stubbed toes, stone bruises, and thorns in the feet, come floating along down from the long past, like shadows of darkness on the current of memory.

to Occurrences 208%

"We are living,-we are dwelling, In a grand and awful time, Age on age to ages telling, To be living is sublime!" We are moving out into a period of great statesmen, and of great political standards and ideals.

at Occurrences 145%

Was it possible that all that was past had been mere fancy, that she had but dreamed those long, long years,maturity and motherhood, and trouble and triumph, and old age at the end of all?

as Occurrences 132%

People talked of her old age as a model of old age, with no bitterness or sourness in it.

with Occurrences 112%

Long time"he motioned back into the ages with one slim brown hand"fore Holy Cross here, Yukon Inua take good care Pymeuts.

for Occurrences 99%

The Nursery School should cover the ages for which the Kindergarten was instituted, roughly from three to six years old.

by Occurrences 64%

But Lachesis, her hair adorned, her tresses neatly bound, Pierian laurel on her locks, her brows with garlands crowned, Plucks me from out the snowy wool new threads as white as snow, Which handled with a happy touch change colour as they go, Not common wool, but golden wire; the Sisters wondering gaze, As age by age the pretty thread runs down the golden days.

from Occurrences 58%

The Woolwich children were typical slum babies, varying in ages from three to six years; very poor, very dirty, totally untrained in good habits.

than Occurrences 53%

This species forms a marked exception, creeping lowly, in compliance with the most rigorous demands of climate, yet enduring bravely to a more advanced age than many of its lofty relatives in the sun-lands below.

on Occurrences 52%

"We are living,-we are dwelling, In a grand and awful time, Age on age to ages telling, To be living is sublime!" We are moving out into a period of great statesmen, and of great political standards and ideals.

of Occurrences 47%

The Seven Ages of Man (by William Shakespeare) 5.

after Occurrences 47%

How do they, age after age, run a predestined course?

before Occurrences 31%

" As everyone may well know, no inconsiderable part of the Spanish population consisted of Jews, many of whose ancestors had taken refuge in that country, or had settled there for purposes of commerce, ages before the birth of our Lord, and their number had been increased from time to time, in consequence of imperial edicts which drove them from Italy, or by the attractions of honor and wealth in Spain.

between Occurrences 28%

There was scarce half a dozen years' difference of age between him and the Castlewood twins; but Mr. Washington had always been remarked for a discretion and sobriety much beyond his time of life, whilst the boys of Castlewood seemed younger than theirs.

without Occurrences 26%

It is excellent, in its perpetuity, for it has come down to us through all the ages without fundamental change.

into Occurrences 25%

The Decameron fully revealed his genius, his ability to weave the tales of all lands and all ages into one harmonious whole; from the confused mass of legends of the Middle Ages, he evolved a world of human interest and dazzling beauty, fixed the kaleidoscopic picture of Italian society, and set it in the richest frame of romance.

in Occurrences 24%

Between the various nations of Europe there has certainly always existed an element of political community, bequeathed by the Roman empire, manifested during the Middle Ages in a common relationship to the Church, and in modern times in a common adherence to certain uncodified rules of international law, more or less im perfectly defined and enforced.

like Occurrences 19%

And may we not presume the blessed Author of our faith, in supplying us in these dissolute times with a recent example of such astonishing and unlimited beneficence, is graciously pleased to afford us a new motive to prize and to cherish that animating faith, which could form, in an age like the present, a character so wonderfully entitled to the veneration of the world?

under Occurrences 17%

But while you are still new in the old country, it thrills you with strange emotion to think that this little church of Whitnash, humble as it seems, stood for ages under the Catholic faith, and has not materially changed since Wickcliffe's days, and that it looked as gray as now in Bloody Mary's time, and that Cromwell's troopers broke off the stone noses of those same gargoyles that are now grinning in your face.

among Occurrences 11%

By his bravery, activity, and vigour, he acquired the esteem of the barons: by his generosity, and by an affable and familiar address, unusual in that age among men of his high quality, he obtained the affections of the people, particularly of the Londoners

past Occurrences 11%

Or it may appear credible that in ages past a jealous builder contrived the place.

for Occurrences 8%

This is one of the first examples on record of a priest being employed by kings in the difficult art of negotiation in State matters; but it became very common in the Middle Ages for prelates and abbots to be ambassadors of princes, since they were not only the most powerful but most intelligent and learned personages of their times.

to Occurrences 8%

The age which produced Chaucer was a transition period from the Middle Ages to modern times, midway between Dante and Michael Angelo.

about Occurrences 7%

The difficulty in all ages about a standard of morality has beenHow can we fix it?

Which preposition to use with  ages