Which preposition to use with compliments

to Occurrences 484%

QUEEN ISABELLA has sent her compliments to Señor CASTELAR, as well as to General PRIM, informing them that, on the whole, she thinks she will not return to the throne of Spain.

of Occurrences 211%

ARABELLA is mistress of that portion of the dictionary which includes the common-place compliments of society.

on Occurrences 51%

After having suffered as much as we could well bear, from the heat and confined air of this laboratory of eatables, and passed the proper number of compliments on the skill and ingenuity they displayed, we ascended to his hall, to partake of that feast, to prepare which we had seen all the elements and the mechanical powers called into action.

in Occurrences 50%

I stammered out I know not what extravagant compliment in reply, and entreated that I might have an opportunity of seeing and conversing with her sometimes: to which she promptly answered that she should not object, if her mother approved it.

with Occurrences 48%

Is he afraid?" The men of the Indefatigable returned these compliments with jeers of their own.

from Occurrences 37%

St. Vallier, with all the staff of the embassy, met him at the station when he arrived in Berlin, also Holstein (our old friend who was at the German Embassy in Paris with Arnim) to compliment him from Prince Bismarck, and he had hardly been fifteen minutes at the embassy when Count Herbert von Bismarck arrived with greetings and compliments from his father.

for Occurrences 23%

To the staff of umpires of the National League and the American League it is but fair to render a compliment for their work of last season.

by Occurrences 20%

We returned the compliment by inviting them to drink with us whenever they were dry.

at Occurrences 17%

"You pay Mrs. Gannat a compliment at the cost of the Confederacy.

as Occurrences 8%

When in London, he waited upon Congreve, the poet, and passed him some compliments as to the reputation and merit of his works.

about Occurrences 7%

"But the Baltimoreans only admired my pictures,they did not buy them; they only wondered at my polyglot accomplishment, and were content with ringing silly-kind changes on an Encyclopaedic compliment about the Admirable Crichton, and other well-educated personages, to be found alphabetically embalmed in Conversations-Lexicons,they did not inquire into my system of teaching, or have quarterly knowledge of my charges.

to Occurrences 6%

How strong this Carlos smells of the DevilFriend, tell your Master she's very well, but since she was married, she has forgot her gentile Civility and good Manners, and never returns any Compliments to Men.

than Occurrences 5%

And in return she could have paid him no higher compliment than when coolly, almost coldly, she told him of her life and what she had made of it.

between Occurrences 3%

When Scott says "the Giaour is praised among our mountains," and Byron returns "Waverley is the best novel I have read," there is no suspicion of flatteryit is the interchange of compliments between men, Et cantare pares et respondere parati.

under Occurrences 2%

"Yes, I will come to visit you at Oaklands gladly, though it's a poor compliment under the circumstances.

out Occurrences 2%

A fall, by which my ribs were broken, soon recalled me to domestick pleasures, and I exerted all my art to obtain the favour of the neighbouring ladies; but wherever I came, there was always some unlucky conversation upon ribands, fillets, pins, or thread, which drove all my stock of compliments out of my memory, and overwhelmed me with shame and dejection.

of Occurrences 2%

August Derleth (A); 16Apr69; R459656. Compliments of Spectro.

towards Occurrences 1%

I must not omit to state that in this discourse M. Levade interwove some hyperbolical compliments towards the young Prince of Sweden, who attended the service that morning.

among Occurrences 1%

[209] This exceedingly plain expression is, so far from seeming gross or indelicate, considered as a very high compliment among Orientals.

above Occurrences 1%

For want of Time to substitute something else in the Room of them, I am at present obliged to publish Compliments above my Desert in the following Letters.

Among Occurrences 1%

XXXIX The True Value of Compliments Among Women

toward Occurrences 1%

She had put forward a little pawn of compliment toward us, as towards a good point, perhaps, for tempting a break in the game.

like Occurrences 1%

I say, old man, my French isn't up to handling a compliment like that; see if you can" He did not finish the sentence, for at that moment there was a faint far-off bang, and they sensed rather than felt a faint quiver in the solid earth beneath their feet.

during Occurrences 1%

Pasiello was in the box with the emperor, and received many compliments during the evening.

through Occurrences 1%

She examined us with sad eyes, spoke a few compliments through the interpretess, and seated herself in silence, letting the others sparkle and chatter.

Which preposition to use with  compliments