Which preposition to use with colds

in Occurrences 358%

I had never lived on that side of the river, and felt cut off from all my belongings,the bridge a terror, so cold in winter, so hot in summer,I never got accustomed to it, never crossed it on foot.

as Occurrences 246%

In several of his poems and in the Decameron he alludes to her as being cold as a marble statue, which no fire can ever warm; and there is no proof, notwithstanding the ardor of Fiammetta as portrayed by her loverwho no doubt wished her to become the reality of his glowing picturethat he ever really received from the charmer whose name was always on his lips anything more than the friendship that was apparent to all the world.

of Occurrences 159%

He was not silent, like the out-door insect, through the spring month and the cold of winter, piping only in sadness when the still autumnal evenings close in their brightness and beauty over the earth; but he sang always, and his chirrup was heard at all seasons.

to Occurrences 115%

"It isn't so cold to-day, not by a long shot, for all Potts's howling about his rheumatics.

with Occurrences 112%

I am cold with fear; yet, even now, I am keenly conscious, and note, in an irrelevant way, that the distant stars are blotted out by the mass of the giant face.

at Occurrences 78%

"She caught a dreadful cold at the concert yesterday and she can't lift her head from the pillow.

for Occurrences 74%

Serve very cold for dessert.

on Occurrences 68%

Let get very cold on ice and serve with sponge-cake.

than Occurrences 64%

The waters of this stream are much colder than those of the lake.

from Occurrences 42%

But offenses of a less glaring kind are as hard to shut out as February cold from a heated house.

by Occurrences 36%

"It appears that she had taken cold by her loitering and soon after reaching her destination became so ill that she had to keep her bed, and it was only on her recovery a few days ago that she heard what had happened here that night.

without Occurrences 16%

A lynx, though heavily furred, cannot long remain exposed in the intense cold without moving.

towards Occurrences 16%

" Would they never complain of being cold towards morning, when the stove had become cold?

before Occurrences 14%

I felt chilled,either because of my sleep down-stairs, or because the mercury was cold before me.

like Occurrences 14%

As she travelled deeper and deeper, it was a wonder to see how far that little ray penetrated down and down through gulfs of darkness, blue and cold like the shimmer of a diamond, and even when it could be seen no more, sent yet a shadowy refraction, a line of something less black than the darkness, a lightening amid the gloom, a something indefinable which was hope.

during Occurrences 12%

They had suffered little from cold during the trip, although it was in the dead of winter and the altitude considerable.

within Occurrences 12%

He knew that in the event of such emergencies it would be singularly easy for four people to die of cold within a few miles of help.

after Occurrences 8%

He was stiff with cold after the rough, swift voyage; his feet alone were hotburning hot with chilblains.

about Occurrences 7%

Certainly there was nothing cold about the way he regarded it.

under Occurrences 6%

" I turned cold under the blow, but Washington did not move a muscle, only his mouth seemed to tighten at the corners.

into Occurrences 5%

"He told of plains so great that it is a lifetime to travel over them, and of deserts where the eagle flying from the dawn dies of drought by midday, and of mountains so high that birds cannot cross them but are changed by cold into stone, and of rivers to which our little waters are as reeds to a forest cedar.

against Occurrences 5%

The clouds by this time had disappeared; the Vega slept in brilliant sunshine, and the peaks of the Sierra Nevada shone white and cold against the sky.

through Occurrences 5%

There's many a good yachtsman died of cold through neglecting these simple precautions."

until Occurrences 4%

On the disruption of the Whig administration in 1851 under Lord John Russell, who was not strong enough for such unsettled times, Lord Derby became premier, and Disraeli took office under him as chancellor of the exchequer,a post which he held for only a short time, the "coalition cabinet" under Lord Aberdeen having succeeded that of Lord Derby, keeping office during the Crimean war, and leaving the Tories out in the cold until 1858.

out Occurrences 4%

She stood by the rock wall until she was chilled; as noiselessly as a creeping shadow she went back to her fire and shivered before it and warmed herself, turning her head quickly to peer into the dark of the hidden tunnel, turning again as quickly to glance toward her rude door, her heart leaping at every crackle of her fire; she thawed some of the cold out of her and went to look out again.

Which preposition to use with  colds