Which preposition to use with converse

with Occurrences 1171%

Here is the advantage of a thinking mindthat at any moment one may enter into eternal subjects of thought, and have converse with those who of all times have been the most profound.

in Occurrences 130%

We conversed in shouts.

on Occurrences 100%

After sitting some time at table, conversing on the progress of science, its splendid achievements, and the pleasing prospects which it yet dimly showed in the future, our hospitable entertainer, perceiving we were fatigued with the labours of the day, invited us to take our next lallaneae, or sleep, with him, for which hospitality we felt very grateful.

of Occurrences 70%

In any event, she now conversed of authors with a fitful persistence like that of an ill-regulated machine.

for Occurrences 32%

There the two seemingly conversed for a long time, and I was left comparatively alone, until the soldier who had told us of General Herkimer's doings nearabout Johnson Hall, came up.

about Occurrences 25%

He, too, whirled around with others, just whom, he did not know; he dipped into Terpsichorean gaiety to escape the dowager's inquisition regarding that haphazard flight from the Nevski and other details he did not wish to converse about.

at Occurrences 16%

Did any one ever notice the curious fact that a middle-aged man and woman can converse at a theatre or concert room without either one finding any difficulty in hearing what the other says, while no young man can make his accompanying young lady hear a single word unless his mouth is in close proximity to her ear?

without Occurrences 15%

But, as to favours, he had never received or asked any from the Bishop of Gloucester; and, if my memory fails me not, he had seen him only once, when they met almost without design, conversed without much effort, and parted without any lasting impressions of hatred or affection.

by Occurrences 14%

Pulz and Handy Solomon tried to converse by signs, but evidently failed, for their faces showed angry in the twilight.

among Occurrences 9%

When we did hold converse among ourselves, it was usually regarding Jacob.

through Occurrences 6%

Conversing through interpreters is a benumbing process, and there are few points of contact between the open-air occidental mind and beings imprisoned in a conception of sexual and domestic life based on slave-service and incessant espionage.

beside Occurrences 4%

I sat one December morning in the library of the Speculative; a very humble-minded youth, though it was a virtue I never had much credit for; yet proud of my privileges as a member of the Spec.; proud of the pipe I was smoking in the teeth of the Senatus; and in particular, proud of being in the next room to three very distinguished students, who were then conversing beside the corridor fire.

after Occurrences 4%

General Longstreet, conversing after the war with a gentleman of the North, declared as much.

between Occurrences 3%

All our ideas spring from the senses, but their production requires communication and converse between man and man.

than Occurrences 3%

In the dawn of society, ages may have passed away, with little more converse than what these efforts would produce.

as Occurrences 3%

I have conversed as friend to friend with her accomplished husband.

from Occurrences 2%

On Thursday evening he lay upon a sofa, conversing from time to time, after his usual manner, until near midnight.

before Occurrences 2%

The young man, while waiting to see Madame Bourdieu, who was engaged, sat for a time answering Norine's questions, and listening to the others, who conversed before him in a free and open way.

during Occurrences 2%

With him I contrived to converse during the day.

to Occurrences 2%

Is there not God to converse to, and is not he able to relieve thee? Already has he afforded thee sustenance, and put it in thy power to provide for thyself till he sends thee a deliverance.

until Occurrences 2%

"You will not," he said, "return till late, and I wish you would induce Eveena to ensure, by composing herself to sleep before your return, that you shall not be asked to converse until the morning.

like Occurrences 1%

It is true that he still held himself as erect as a young man, he came and went with a step as light as yours, he conversed like Rivarol, he composed verses as beautiful as De Vigny's.

round Occurrences 1%

Gibb'ring, they come from ancient tombs, Stealing from low sepulchral glooms, From vault and charnel house they rise, With bloodless cheek, and hollow eyes, They point the finger,shake the head, And hold strange converse round my bed; Together there, in council meet, With coffin, pall and winding sheet, Seem waiting, with their dread array, To bear my lifeless form away.

over Occurrences 1%

In the garden on the bench under the large apple-tree, Mother and Auntie were sitting mending and conversing over the bringing-up of the children; for Auntie knew many a good advice, quite new and not worn out.

into Occurrences 1%

Mrs. Lewes's manner had a grave simplicity, which rose in closer converse into an almost pathetic anxiety to give of her bestto establish a genuine human relation between herself and her interlocutorto utter words which should remain as an active influence for good in the hearts of those who heard them.

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