Which preposition to use with amend

for Occurrences 196%

But they make amends for this irregularity, by a very strict and punctilious observance of festivals, which are regulated by the motions of the sun, at whose rising and setting they have their appropriate ceremonies.

in Occurrences 59%

But he has escaped conviction; and if I thought Mr. Ranelagh would also escape, I might have courage to live out my miserable life, and seek to make amends in the way she would have me.

to Occurrences 52%

We shall then return to the task which we now abandon in despair, and endeavour to make all due amends to Mr. Keats and to our readers.'

by Occurrences 35%

He moved to amend by substituting slow torture.

at Occurrences 5%

Indeed I ought to be angry with you for having refused me this happiness so long; but you have made amends at last; though, indeed, it was impossible to have deferred it longer.

with Occurrences 5%

The World's well amended with him, Captain, since I lost my Money to him and you at the George in White-Fryers.

without Occurrences 2%

But as its merits, if it have any, are merely those of youth, so also are its faults, and they are immanent and structural; they cannot be amended without tearing the book to pieces.

as Occurrences 2%

The word amends is represented by Murray and others, as being singular as well as plural; but Webster's late dictionaries exhibit amend as singular, and amends as plural, with definitions that needlessly differ, though not much.

from Occurrences 2%

Scott, in his note on this pamphlet (amended from one by Lord Orrery), takes his usual course when considering Swift's attitude of opposition he implies a motive or prejudice.

than Occurrences 1%

If laws in colonies are more quickly passed, they are also more easy to amend than in older countries.

of Occurrences 1%

What I should have done in my latter days to make up for the imperfect amends of my repentance, I know not, if the holy Piero Pettignano had not assisted me with his prayers.

until Occurrences 1%

On the 12th July the committee reported a draft of articles, which were severally afterwards debated and amended until the 15th November, 1777, when they were adopted.

before Occurrences 1%

The Constitution should be amended before Adoption.

after Occurrences 1%

The gale amended after several days, and on the sixteenth day from their departure they reached Mangareva.

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