Which preposition to use with commended

to Occurrences 124%

In pursuance, however, of a mode of treatment commended to their judgment, by frequent previous practice with the same patient, the good couple poured a pitcher of water over his fallen head; hauled him smartly up and down the room, first by a hand and then by a foot; singed his whiskers with a hot poker, held him head-downward for a time, and tried various other approved allopathic remedies.

for Occurrences 41%

The Giants are to be commended for playing clean, sportsmanlike Base Ball.

in Occurrences 29%

And then, her voice, her laugh!not so low as Shakspeare commends in woman, but clear, musical, true-hearted, making one glad like the song of the lark at sunrise.

as Occurrences 19%

7. Hence with evidently good reason is he that useth such language called a fool: and he that abstaineth from it is commended as wise.

to Occurrences 5%

I think that WINSTON was the first Commended to my gaze, But very soon I found my eyes Tired by the limelight's blaze Incapable of following His strange and devious ways.

for Occurrences 4%

de vinis, of borage, balm, bugloss, cinnamon, &c. and highly commended for its virtues: "it drives away leprosy, scabs, clears the blood, recreates the spirits, exhilarates the mind, purgeth the brain of those anxious black melancholy fumes, and cleanseth the whole body of that black humour by urine.

vnto Occurrences 3%

Maister E.K. hartily desireth to be commended vnto your worshippe: of whome what accompte he maketh youre selfe shall hereafter perceiue by hys paynefull and dutifull verses of your selfe.

unto Occurrences 2%

By this is as much as to say, sir, my master has sent unto you; by this is as much as to say, sir, my master has him humbly commended unto you; and by this is as much as to say, my master craves your answer.

than Occurrences 2%

I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets; and have found the world willing enough to caress me, if my health had invited me to be in much company; but this season I have been almost wholly employed in nursing myself.

with Occurrences 2%

On going up to one of these latter, what was my astonishment to find in his basket, volume after volume of publications such as Holywell-street scarce ever dared to exhibit; these he offered and commended with the most unblushing effrontery.

without Occurrences 2%

True, flattery is a shocking vice; Yet sure, whene'er the praise is just, One may commend without disgust.

than Occurrences 1%

Shenstone says, though with nearly equal spleen and truth: "there is nothing more universally commended than a fine day: the reason is, that people can commend it without envy.

by Occurrences 1%

The behavior of our troops during this night attack was all that could be desired, and I have, in cablegrams to the War Department, taken occasion to commend by name those, who deserve special mention for good conduct in the affair.

as Occurrences 1%

Last year it won the First Prize as a light-weight hunter, First Prize as a hack, and Highly Commended as a chargerdisqualified from a prize on account of having no mane.

on Occurrences 1%

Many commend on the other side Spanish ladies, and those Greek dames at this day, for the blackness of their eyes, as Porta doth his Neapolitan young wives.

of Occurrences 1%

15.In a recent work on this subject, Sheridan is particularly excepted, and he alone, where Hallam, Johnson, Lord Kames, and other "Prosodians" in general, are charged with "astonishing ignorance of the first principles of our verse;" and, at the same time, he is as particularly commended of having "especially insisted on the subject of Quantity.

above Occurrences 1%

A strain of piety and policy to be commended above the profane mockery of the Stuarts and their Book of Sports.

under Occurrences 1%

The Church enterprise was commended under the Pastorate of Rev. S.W. Martin, a lot being donated for the purpose by John S. Rockwell, Esq.

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