Which preposition to use with biddings

of Occurrences 126%

All this have they suffered in pursuit of duty, or at the bidding of conscience; and of such and of brave Joseph Ford there comes to us across the agesa saying spoken long ago, to the effect that "he that loseth his life shall save it": and we need to remember that saying in such cases as that of Fireman Ford.

for Occurrences 7%

"] [Footnote 2: Alluding to the custom in France of burning bits of candle to denote the time in which the bidding may proceed; usually when the third piece goes out the bidding for the special lot is finished, and the next is proceeded with.]

to Occurrences 6%

"All Richmond," and that meant a good deal in a city whose women had been adored for beauty and wit on two continents, received Mrs. Atterbury's bidding to her drawing-room with proud alacrity.

in Occurrences 6%

Come with me, stranger, and I will do thy bidding in an humble frame of mind."

with Occurrences 5%

But such is his inordinate conceit of himself that I am convinced he will always begin the bidding with eight.

at Occurrences 2%

But quickly King Amfortas stopped the knights Who went to do his bidding at the shrine: "Nay, leave the Holy Cup still unrevealed!

on Occurrences 1%

He entered her cell and clapped a dagger to her breast, telling her to rise and do his bidding on pain of death.

through Occurrences 1%

To indulge this craving, he gathered round him a band of demigods and Titans, led by Bramante, Raffaello, Michelangelo, and enjoyed the spectacle of a new world of art arising at his bidding through their industry of brain and hand.

up Occurrences 1%

If, however, there is a concerted movement to spend the surplus money, there results a general bidding down of the value of money, a general bidding up of the prices of goods.

across Occurrences 1%

And yet I have gold, and houses, and lands, And ladened vessels a white-winged fleet, That fly at my bidding across the sea; And hats are doffed by willing hands As I tread the village street; But wealth and fame are not to me What I thought that they would be.

without Occurrences 1%

And so she accepted the rule of Joe's motherto do Joe's bidding without question, to let him have his way, waiting patiently for the time when he would need and cry out for the personal.

against Occurrences 1%

Now I herewith command you to go straightway down into that field without any further words and to do my bidding against yonder knight.

as Occurrences 1%

The woman to whom he owed all was, he thought, but a puppet in his hands, as ready to do his bidding as any of his minions.

between Occurrences 1%

The bidding between the man of the factory and the student had gone slowly on.

by Occurrences 1%

Others compare it to a palace put of the Arabian Nights raised at the Prince's bidding by a Genie, or like Lippomano, the Venetian ambassador, to "the abode of Morgana or Alcinous"; but this topheavy barrack is anything rather than a "fairy monument"; it might with as much humor be called a "souvenir of first loves," as M. de la Saussaye has it.

down Occurrences 1%

If, however, there is a concerted movement to spend the surplus money, there results a general bidding down of the value of money, a general bidding up of the prices of goods.

Which preposition to use with  biddings