Which preposition to use with closeted

with Occurrences 81%

They took the stranger to Edwards's vacant room, where Trendon was closeted with him for half an hour.

of Occurrences 48%

so I am pleased to call my muddy stirringswhat manner of essay I might write and how best to sort and lay out the rummage, it happened pat to my needs that I received from a friend a book entitled "The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened."

in Occurrences 47%

You will have to just tear him away" However, the two boys were back sooner than the girls expected, for they were very curious about the contents of the small shabby trunk, which had so evidently been hidden away in the darkest corner of a dark closet in the attic.

for Occurrences 23%

The family separated that evening with melancholy hearts; and the host and his privy counsellor were closeted for half an hour ere they retired to their night's repose.

at Occurrences 19%

She wished to get the little packet into which she had made Gray's letters months ago, dreading to look even at the folded outsides of them, tucking them away on the high shelf of her dress-closet at the Pap Himes boarding-house, and trying to forget them.

under Occurrences 8%

" "Also the hat and coat found on a remote hook in the closet under the stairs, bearing the flour-mark on its under brim?" "Yes, that too.

into Occurrences 5%

" Ida sank down on the floor of the closet into which she had been thrust.

to Occurrences 5%

He could not, I reflected, be so weak as not to see that the most intricate and remote recess of his hotel would be as open as his commonest closets to the eyes, to the probes, to the gimlets, and to the microscopes of the Prefect.

on Occurrences 5%

In one big closet on the fifth floor, however, as soon as he opened the door there came a rustle, and he sprang forward to intercept the perfidious one; but it was only the air stirring the folds of garments hanging on the wall.

near Occurrences 5%

While they were viewing these things, lo! a door opened from a closet near the marriage-chamber, and six virgins came out, and after them the bridegroom and the bride, holding each other by the hand, and advancing towards a seat placed opposite to the candlestick, on which they seated themselves, the bridegroom on the left hand, and the bride on the right, while the six virgins stood by the seat near the bride.

by Occurrences 4%

[Thrusts him into the Closet by force.

from Occurrences 3%

This he slipped into the holster and carried the rest of his apparatus back to the closet from which he had taken it.

off Occurrences 3%

When he came home the next summer, he moved again into his own old room, for Agnes slept in a little closet off her mother's, and much preferred that to a larger and more solitary room for herself.

than Occurrences 2%

" The Regent had no sooner returned to her closet than, in obedience to her orders, Bassompierre again presented himself; and as soon as she had dismissed her attendants she at once entered upon the subject that occupied her thoughts.

among Occurrences 2%

It was found in a Poetical Virtuosos Closet among his Rarities; and since the several Treatises of Thumbs, Ears, and Noses, have obliged the World, this of Eyes is at your Service.

as Occurrences 2%

They retired to the closet as to a place of quiet and amusement, and pleased themselves with writing, because they could lay down the pen whenever they were weary.

of Occurrences 1%

Essential for defense, and for protection, an organ in which everything necessary for the stratagems of retreat, or the offensives of attack, are supplied ad libitum, while everything non-essential or detrimental to the matter of the moment is inhibited, arrested and suppressedno more perfect sample of the design with which Life is drenched could be imagined by the most closeted of passionate idealists.

against Occurrences 1%

Even Gilbert afterward confessed that his scalp prickled when a figure stepped forward from a narrow closet against the wall.

behind Occurrences 1%

Oh, is there a closet behind that curtain?

like Occurrences 1%

I plainly heard a noise upon the cover of my closet like that of a cable, and the grating of it as it passed through the ring.

until Occurrences 1%

And so she teased herself, and tried not to think of the pasteboard box on the shelf in the hall closet, under the pile of reserve blankets, and told herself that she would leave that closet until the last, when she would have to hurry over it.

without Occurrences 1%

"I shouldn't think they could live in the closet without air or anything to eat.

after Occurrences 1%

When he was leaving the Royal Closet after surrendering the Great Seal into the Queen's hands, Lord Westbury met the Bishop, who was going in to the Queen.

Which preposition to use with  closeted