Which preposition to use with ceremonious

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Another herb called samotis, which they imagined had a virtue to prevent diseases among cattle, they were very ceremonious about gathering.

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And what did you purchase, Miss Summersor Miss Redbud, if you will permit me" "Oh, yes, sir," said Redbud, looking at him with her kind, sad eyes, "you need'nt be ceremonious with me.

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"When in foreign countries," says an old author, "I fall in with a man too helpless for a Frenchman, too ceremonious for an Englishman, too pliable for a Spaniard, too lively for a Dutchman, too cordial for an Italian, too modest for a Russiana man pressing towards me with oblique bows, and doing homage with ineffable self-denial to all that seems of rank; then my heart, and the blood in my face, says, 'that is thy countryman.'" How true!

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Sir, I meant no hurt, but 'tis always the fashion of your true bred Courtier, to be more ceremonious in his Civilities to Ladies than Men;and

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" "An oath, deacon!This is quite new for the sealing businessas ceremonious as Uncle Sam's people.

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When I reflect, my lords, on the distresses of my country, when I observe the security and arrogance of those whom I consider as the authors of the publick miseries, I cannot always contain my resentment; I may, perhaps, sometimes start out into unbecoming transports, and speak in terms not very ceremonious of such abandoned, such detestable

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The population of the city was then but thirty-five thousand, and only a few familiesat the head of which were the Schuylers, the Livingstons, the Van Rensselaers, and the Morrisesconstituted what is called "Society," which was much more ceremonious than at the present day, and more exclusive.

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And the lovers talked with desperate cheerfulness, so that there might be no outbreak so long as Pilkinspreëminently ceremonious among butlers, and as yet inclined to scoff at the notion that the Musgraves of Matocton were not divinely entrusted to his guardianship,was in the room.

Which preposition to use with  ceremonious