Which preposition to use with attachments

to Occurrences 592%

He had, we were informed, so much attachment to these pieces of metal, that he was often on the point of starvation before he would part with one.

of Occurrences 175%

But on the present occasion my pleasure had two drawbacks: I could not but feel the contrast between the warm and confiding attachment of my late school-fellows, and the coldness and reserve of my new companions.

for Occurrences 88%

" We soon overtook the stranger who was driving a herd of horses, and as we came up to him, I said: "Hello, sir; I am an officer, and have an attachment for that horse," and at the same time I pointed out the animal.

between Occurrences 30%

A year later, the attachment between his wife and Stevenson still remaining, the friend applied for a divorce.

in Occurrences 21%

The Romans certainly felt no great sympathy for the religious element in that serious spirit of reform which animated Arnold; but the political movements, which had sprung out of his reforming tendency, found a point of attachment in their love of liberty, and their dreams of the ancient dominion of Rome over the world.

on Occurrences 14%

Emily felt herself drawn to her new acquaintance with a fondness which doubtless grew out of her situation with her brother; which soon found reasons enough in the soft, lady-like, and sincere manners of Lady Marian, to justify her attachment on her own account.

with Occurrences 11%

It was at the French opera that many of his most celebrated works were first given to the world; and an incident which took place at the performance of one of them showed that, if the frequenters of Versailles were dissatisfied at the inroads lately made on the old etiquette, the queen had a compensation in the warm attachment with which she had inspired the Parisians.

towards Occurrences 9%

"You seem to have formed some romantic attachment towards this young woman who attempted to poison Madame Vakuroff, and to have succeeded in rescuing her from Kajana.

at Occurrences 7%

These cartilages are capped with little horn-like projections, and give attachment at their anterior angles to the true vocal cords, and at their posterior angles to the muscles which open and close the glottis, or upper opening of the windpipe.

as Occurrences 5%

Would you suppose that he should show the same sort of attachment as exists between a poor yokel and his one wifethat he would asphyxiate himself in some sewer, leaving no one the wiser?" Kung-shuh Wan's steward, who became the high officer Sien, went up accompanied by Wan to the prince's hall of audience.

from Occurrences 4%

Profoundly ignorant of the true nature of her feelings towards himself, he had ever shrunk from a direct avowal of his own sentiments, lest he might shock her; as a sister's ear would naturally be wounded by a declaration of attachment from a brother; and there were bitter moments when he fancied delicacy and honour would oblige him to carry his secret with him to the grave.

by Occurrences 4%

He took charge of them and won their attachment by giving money to all alike,an act which added many more to his troops.

outside Occurrences 2%

Were I an intending immigrant I would risk a good deal of discomfort to get on to the land in British Columbia; and were I rich, with no attachments outside England, I would swiftly buy me a farm or a house in that country for the mere joy of it.

AGAINST Occurrences 2%

ATTACHMENT AGAINST WITNESS.

of Occurrences 1%

This was succeeded in 1783, by dissertations moral and critical, on Memory and Imagination, on Dreaming, on the Theory of Language, on Fable and Romance, on the Attachments of Kindred, and on Illustrations of Sublimity; being, as he states in the preface, "part of a course of prelections read to those young gentlemen whom it was his business to initiate in the elements of moral science."

beyond Occurrences 1%

Nothing is known of Lamb's attachment beyond these sonnets, the fact that when he lost his reason for a short time in 1795-1796 he attributed the cause to some person unmentioned who is conjectured to have been Anna, and the occasional references in the Ella essays to "Alice W" and to his old passion for her (see "Dream Children" in particular, in Vol. II).

during Occurrences 1%

About a fortnight after the rejoicings had subsided, Mrs Hardman, while conversing with her son on his future plans and prospects, startled him by inquiring whether he had formed any attachment during his residence in Paris?

inside Occurrences 1%

Not if I die stopping it!" A familiar voice, issuing from the lips of the fauna voice made natural and audible as the living human tones, by means of a delicate microphone attachment inside the bronze headtautened his nerves.

than Occurrences 1%

Apart from the amusing "suddenness" of the proposal and the marriage, this tale is of interest as indicating that among the lower races woman hasas many observations indicatea greater capacity for conjugal attachment than man.

toward Occurrences 1%

In confidence that every constitutional preliminary has been observed, we assure you of our disposition to concur in giving the requisite sanction to the admission of Kentucky as a distinct member of the Union; in doing which we shall anticipate the happy effects to be expected from the sentiments of attachment toward the Union and its present Government which have been expressed by the patriotic inhabitants of that district.

until Occurrences 1%

How presume to know of an attachment until in due form certified thereof?

without Occurrences 1%

We are always forming attachments without sufficient circumspection, hence I am not wrong in comparing love to an appetite which one sometimes feels for one kind of food rather than for another, without being able to give the reason.

after Occurrences 1%

Their companionship was so congenial that her friends were astonished when she formed another attachment after his death in 1878, and married Mr. Cross.

Which preposition to use with  attachments