Which preposition to use with cherishes

in Occurrences 65%

Before the female enslaver makes her appearance, every lad has a friend of friends, a crony of cronies, to whom he writes immense letters in vacation, whom he cherishes in his hearts of hearts; whose sister he proposes to marry in after life; whose purse he shares; for whom he will take a thrashing if need be; who is his hero.

for Occurrences 48%

A party of distinguished and sorrowing friends accompanied him as far as BANG'S. The regard which he cherishes for poetry and art had hitherto marked out this pleasant hostelrie as the utmost limit of his down-town perambulations.

as Occurrences 31%

We are unable, indeed, to reach the period in any country, when the inhabitants were destitute of medical resources, and even among the most uncultivated tribes we find medicine cherished as a blessing and practised as an art.

with Occurrences 29%

If a people has a corporate memory, if it can learn from its own sufferings, Germany has reason enough to cherish with a passionate devotion her late achieved unity.

of Occurrences 15%

As that last word fell so softly, yet with such tender suggestion, a sensation of sympathy passed between us for the first time; and I knew, from the purity of her look and the fearlessness of this covert appeal to one she could not address openly, that the doubts I had cherished of her up to this very moment were an outrage and that were it possible or seemly, I should be bowed down in the dust at her feetin reality, as I was in spirit.

toward Occurrences 7%

I may pity him, and cherish toward him the spirit of forgiveness; but for his own sake, for the order of the household, and on account of my innate sense of justice, I must not pronounce his acquittal, nor declare the controversy ended, until he shall have satisfied my governmental authority, and the sentiment of justice which both his own conscience and mine, constitutionally, and therefore by necessity, cherish.

through Occurrences 6%

In a few days a boundless love, a love of six years, a love she had cherished through so many sorrows, would be crowned!

from Occurrences 5%

Victor knew the wild, undisciplined temperament of the boy he had cherished from his cradle, and he lived in hourly dread of some sudden passionate outburst of rebellion, some desperate act that should lead to irremediable disaster.

than Occurrences 5%

Let's wipe off the slate, Find something better to cherish than hate.

among Occurrences 4%

Nay, not the only one,for one visible record of her, at least, the soil of France cherishes among its chiefest treasures.

towards Occurrences 3%

Whatever evil intentions Noaks might have cherished towards them were destined to be checkmated by a fortunate circumstance, the possibility of which neither side had yet foreseen.

to Occurrences 3%

It may seem a hard vision to cherish to-day.

at Occurrences 3%

The Duchess of Richmond occasionally gave away a dog to intimate friends, such as the Dowager Lady Wharncliffe, Lady Dorothy Nevill, and others, but in those days the Pekinese was practically an unknown quantity, and it can therefore be more readily understood what interest was aroused about eleven years ago by the appearance of a small dog, similar in size, colour, and general type to those so carefully cherished at Goodwood.

against Occurrences 3%

He assembled privily the folk of his household, his familiar friends, and those who cherished against Arthur the deepest grudge.

within Occurrences 2%

The great need in modern culture, which is scientific in method, rationalistic in spirit, and utilitarian in purpose, is to find some effective agency for cherishing within us the ideal.

during Occurrences 2%

To be called away from the happy home which he so rarely enjoyed and enlightened, and to be sent out again to the ends of the world on such a service, was no light sacrifice even to his patriotic spirit; and the feeling of this was perhaps aggravated by the half-hope cherished during the first few weeks, that any day he might be met by tidings that the Chinese had made the required concessions, and that the affair was settled.

without Occurrences 2%

As there is, however, little need of setting the world on fire to demonstrate some chemical theory, so it is possible that the flame of culture may be cherished without kindling a conflagration, and truth transmitted from sire to son without the construction of edificial monsters too big for the knees, too abstruse for the brains, and too great for the lifetime of humanity.

for Occurrences 1%

Not only are there innumerable and seemingly interminable chores that must follow the regular occupations of the day, but a thousand emergencies due to chance, weather, or the natural cussedness of things must be disposed of as they arise, regardless of what plans the rustic swain cherishes for the use of his spare time.

above Occurrences 1%

Keith's father bought a lot while still engaged, and won the prize which became the chief wedding present of his brideto be cherished above all other objects to her dying day.

across Occurrences 1%

The mere idea of such a woman, cherished across dividing seas and separating years, will help a man be great.

after Occurrences 1%

I had known this before; but never did I so realize the significant symbolism of the act as when I looked at this lifeless yet lifelike thing, to be made into the beauty of a woman, called by her name, and cherished after her death,and saw that only through this chrysalis of the clay, so cared for, moistened, and moulded, could the marble obtain its soul.

before Occurrences 1%

Next to her comes France, in Africa and the East; while Germany looks out with discontented eyes on a world already occupied, and, cherishing the same ambitions all great States have cherished before her, finds the time too mature for their accomplishment by the methods that availed in the past.

beside Occurrences 1%

It was dear to her from its association with him whom she loved, there her thoughts could wander to him; and surely the love thus cherished beside the dead must have been purity itself.

by Occurrences 1%

Now what are the deductions to be logically drawn from these stupendous victories and the consolidation of the various religions of the conquered into the creed of Mohammed,not repudiated when the pressure was removed, but apparently cherished by one hundred and eighty millions of people for more than a thousand years?

into Occurrences 1%

With nervous fingers she threw the small things she most cherished into a bagher purse, her jewels, her little treasures.

Which preposition to use with  cherishes