Which preposition to use with classic

of Occurrences 69%

[Footnote 16: In reference to his editing the six Classics of his time.

in Occurrences 60%

" Tim Murnane, Sporting Editor Boston Globe:"You have given to the world a book of inestimable value, a classic in American history; a book that should be highly prized in every home library in the country.

for Occurrences 11%

We understand these things far better to-day than did those monsters of erudition in the sixteenth century who studied the classics for philological purposes mainly.

to Occurrences 9%

Vida's poem is a surprising instance of difficulty overcome, in the manner with which he has moulded the phraseology of the classics to a purpose apparently alien from it; and he has made his mythology agreeable, trivial as it is, by the skill with which it is managed.

by Occurrences 6%

Attacks on the classics by men ignorant of the classical languages tend to perpetuate the superstition.

at Occurrences 6%

You're told that J.B. Brewster has won an Exhibition for Classics at Cat's, Cambridge, and you feel that it's one of those stories where you can't see how funny it is unless you really know the fellow.

as Occurrences 5%

I regretted having seen this palace, especially opposite to the Acropolis, on a spot which has made its works of art as classic as its heroes.

with Occurrences 4%

In a pale-blue, lace-fretted dress over a pale-blue slip, made in what her mother called "Empire style," Josie would deliver herself of "Entertaining Big Sister's Beau" and other sophisticated classics with an incredible ease and absence of embarrassment.

on Occurrences 4%

The first edition of this popular workpopular, I mean, in its day, for no work is popular long, though it may remain forever a classic on the shelves of librarieswas sold in two weeks.

than Occurrences 4%

His History is consequently read more to-day as a literary classic than as an authority.

among Occurrences 2%

The sheep is not likely to be so happy in its biographer as was the buffalo, for Dr. Allen's monograph on the American bison is a classic among North American natural history works.

without Occurrences 1%

It was classic without being formal, but no description can give an idea of the charm of it in contrast with the general aridity of the Cretan landscape.

amid Occurrences 1%

It begins by recounting the follies of the court, passes on to the discussion of politics and philosophy, deals with the ethical systems of the ancients, and hints at a new system of his own, and is everywhere enriched by wide reading and learning acquired at the schools of Chartres and Paris London could boast of the historian Ralph of Diceto, always ready with a quotation from the classics amid the court news and politics of his day.

between Occurrences 1%

Another stroke must be tried and found not wanting, else the annual eight-oared rowing classic between those ancient universities Baliol and Shelburne would be decided before it was rowed.

from Occurrences 1%

From an Officers' mess tent comes the tinkle of a gramophone, rendering classics from "Keep Smiling."

over Occurrences 1%

Its versification in iambics is so beautiful that it is regarded as the triumph of the Classics over the Romantics; and by this piece Grillparzer has proved the universality of his genius; for he wrote a short time ago a dramatic piece in the romantic style and in the eight rhymed trochaic metre called die Anhfrau (the ancestress) where supernatural agency is introduced.

through Occurrences 1%

But when, in process of Nature, the Asian died,having become classic through her longevity, taking length of days for length of stature,then the rosary belonged to mamma's sister, who by-and-by sent it, with a parcel of other things, to papa for me.

until Occurrences 1%

In some parts of the Continent, young persons are taught from mere common authors, and do not read the best classics until their maturity.

about Occurrences 1%

With the conviction that truth is forever the same and that there is nothing ever so novel as the truth, he had kept repeating his criticism year after year in a pure, concise, sonorous style that seemed to scatter the ripe perfume of the classics about the muggy Chamber.

Which preposition to use with  classic