Which preposition to use with antagonists

of Occurrences 59%

Besides, if the creature I had just seen was, as I imagined, his antagonist of the morning, it was not likely that he would be of much use.

in Occurrences 36%

The captain with beautiful simplicity crushed his antagonist in his gorilla-like squeeze, carried him to the side of the vessel, and dropped him limp and beaten to the pier.

with Occurrences 24%

That is why a superior boxer seems to hypnotize his antagonist with movements which to the spectator seem perfectly easy, slow, and sure.

to Occurrences 23%

Gracchus wished to comply with the summons, but Flaccus prevented him from doing so, and repeated the equally weak and mistaken attempt to move such antagonists to a compromise.

by Occurrences 10%

Wigurd displayed his usual ingenuity and ardour, and baffled all his antagonists by his vehemence and fluency.

at Occurrences 8%

He had beaten his antagonists at the shareholders' meeting, but doubted if he could do so again.

on Occurrences 6%

He understood well that he should find no great difficulty in fighting against the latter, if with his aid he could first overcome his adversaries, but that Antony would be a powerful antagonist on any subsequent occasion.

as Occurrences 5%

Thomas Bugeaud was a man of great ability, and he has the credit of devising the only method by which such an antagonist as Abd-el-Kader, in such a country, could be subdued.

into Occurrences 3%

The boats were then pulled close to one another, and each combatant endeavoured to push his antagonist into the water.

for Occurrences 3%

Philip had marched to meet him; but in the extensive and thinly- peopled regions of Macedonia the antagonists for a time sought each other in vain; at length they met in the province of Lyncestis, a fertile but marshy plain not far from the north-western frontier, and encamped not 1000 paces apart.

like Occurrences 3%

So, turning our head eastward, we bowled along merrily with the stream, dashing down our late antagonist like a flash of lightning, then across the lake, and through a fleet of bannered rafts, till we landed on the Chats Falls Island, where we found our ponies ready to whisk us along the mid-air railway.

through Occurrences 3%

Watson made the assault with a dirk, and Carmichael defended himself with a pistol, shooting his antagonist through the body, a few inches below the heart.

under Occurrences 3%

Then he leaped in, and as his fingers gripped at the other's throat Howland's right arm shot upward in a deadly short-arm punch that caught his antagonist under the jaw.

during Occurrences 2%

But the real struggle between Hellenism and its national antagonists during the present period was carried on in the field of faith, of manners, and of art and literature; and we must not omit to attempt some delineation of this great strife of principles, however difficult it may be to present a summary view of the myriad forms and aspects which the conflict assumed.

over Occurrences 2%

And springing backwards himself, he dashed his antagonist over the rock.

between Occurrences 1%

Still less is there any necessary antagonists between either of these doctrines and that of Evolution, which embraces all that is sound in both Catastrophism and Uniformitarianism, while it rejects the arbitrary assumptions of the one and the, as arbitrary, limitations of the other.

out Occurrences 1%

"At last came the day when the dirty, grimy, bloody soldiers of the Czar pushed their antagonists out of the far side of the woodlandand what a scene occurred in that open bit of country with the quaint little village of Augustowo at the crossroads!

after Occurrences 1%

The attempts of the great- king to purchase peace from his antagonist after the Oriental manner by sums of moneyhe offered the half of his year's revenues!failed as they deserved; the proud burgess, in return for the gratuitous restoration of his son who had fallen a captive, rewarded the great- king with the friendly advice to make peace on any terms.

from Occurrences 1%

Shydah exerted his utmost might, but was unable to move his antagonist from the ground; whilst Khosráu lifted him up without difficulty, and, dashing him on the plain, He sprang upon him as the lion fierce Springs on the nimble gor, then quickly drew His deadly dagger, and with cruel aim, Thrust the keen weapon through the stripling's heart.

across Occurrences 1%

Narcissus said, screwing up his eyes as if he gazed at an antagonist across the dazzling sand of the arena.

near Occurrences 1%

" "Your challenge would be soon answered," replied the Palmer, "were your antagonist near you.

against Occurrences 1%

The stern man pitted one antagonist against another until both sued for peace and pardon.

off Occurrences 1%

Lister felt the other's hand at his throat, and straining back, jerked his head away while he tried to lift his antagonist off the ground.

Which preposition to use with  antagonists