Which preposition to use with balm

of Occurrences 78%

Ivory, gold, gems, precious stuffs, teak and cedar wood, Lebanon pine, apes, peacocks, sandal-wood, camel's hair, goat's hair, frankincense, pearl, dyes, myrrh, cassia, cinnamon, Balm of Gilead, calamus, spikenard, corn, ebony, figs, fir, olives, olive-wood, wheat, amber, copper, lead, tin, and precious stones were the chief articles of exchange.

to Occurrences 68%

This flattering faith is naturally balm to women's hearts, and yet there are skeptics among them.

for Occurrences 28%

You are all my guests, and you have a lady here, whose bright eyes should be a balm for controversies.

in Occurrences 22%

"You are too ingenious at finding balm in defeat."

into Occurrences 9%

But when the time is come for the Lord to pour in the healing balm into the sorrowing soul, then we find a little comfort.

from Occurrences 8%

I longed for some instant miracle to be wrought on the spot, by which there should come floating down from the peaceful blue sky, through the sweet tree-tops, some of the loving and serene words of balm from his Gospel.

on Occurrences 2%

The thought of the inviting look of the white-covered bed upstairs lay like a balm on the spirits of men not born to roughing it.

across Occurrences 1%

I will carry balm across the sea to heal her breaking heart.

without Occurrences 1%

Other persons, I am aware, have not the same cowardly shrinking from a candid opinion of their performances, and are even importunately eager for it; but I have convinced myself in numerous cases that such exposers of their own back to the smiter were of too hopeful a disposition to believe in the scourge, and really trusted in a pleasant anointing, an outpouring of balm without any previous wounds.

after Occurrences 1%

And hemiserable fellow!to him it was peace after struggle, balm after torment.

at Occurrences 1%

Spring languor was in earth and sky, and in my bones, too; yet, through this Northern forest ever and anon came faint reminders of receding snows, melting beyond the Canadasdelicate zephyrs, tinctured with the far scent of frost, flavoring the sun's balm at moments with a sharper essence.

by Occurrences 1%

I saw that my situation and my youth had lacerated Mrs. Ispenlove's sensitive heart, and that she wished to give it balm by being humane to me.

out Occurrences 1%

The same Penottus speaks of an excellent balm out of Aponensis, which, taken to the quantity of three drops in a cup of wine, "will cause a sudden alteration, drive away dumps, and cheer up the heart."

than Occurrences 1%

Their imperfections pleased him, provided they were neither parasitic nor servile, and perhaps there was a grain of truth in his theory that the inferior and decadent writer, who is more subjective, though unfinished, distills a more irritating aperient and acid balm than the artist of the same period who is truly great.

unto Occurrences 1%

It is mine office Still to bear balm unto the bleeding heart; Then lead on, friend, and let us trust in Heaven.

Which preposition to use with  balm