Which preposition to use with days

of Occurrences 12699%

It was after midnight on the morning of the twenty-first day of January.

in Occurrences 4631%

It is a great day in Parisone of the sights of the yearand falling in midsummer the day is generally beautiful and very warm.

after Occurrences 2443%

Every man was first a Frenchman in the face of a foreign foe, and if they could have stood firmly together in those first days after the war the strength of the country would have been wonderful.

to Occurrences 1706%

He took us one day to the Luxembourg Gardens, to see if he could find any trace of the spot where in 1815 during the Restoration Marshal Ney had been shot.

at Occurrences 1565%

My sister asked me no questions; for it is not by any means the first time that I have kept to my study for a whole day, and sometimes a couple of days at a time, when I have been particularly engrossed in my books or work.

for Occurrences 1471%

I know the same day made me free, which was the last day for him who made the proverb trueOne must be born either a Pharaoh or a fool.

with Occurrences 1300%

She came one day with a proposal of marriagea charming man, a Frenchman, not too young, with a good fortune, a title, and a chateau, had seen Madam King's daughters in the ballroom and hunting-field, and would very much like to be presented and make his cour.

on Occurrences 1109%

In these days of rapid travelling and telephone, an ambassador's role is much less important than in the old days when an ambassador with his numerous suite of secretaries and servants, travelling by post, would be days on the road before reaching his destination, and when all sorts of things might happen, kingdoms and dynasties be overthrown in the interval.

by Occurrences 1093%

Day by day within that church, as one grows to manhood and womanhood, one enters into race-experiences, and feels, however vaguely, that the Holy Spirit abides within them all.

before Occurrences 1014%

Countess de S. also received every day before three o'clock.

from Occurrences 540%

We had refrained for two days from disturbing the deer, and our supply of fresh venison was entirely exhausted.

as Occurrences 345%

But a dog that looks you honestly and frankly in the face, that stands by his master and friend, in all times of trial, in sorrow as in joy, in adversity as in prosperity, in dark days as in bright days, always cheerful, always sincere, earnest, and truthful, and so that his kindness be met, always happy, I like.

without Occurrences 332%

Just enough food to go through the day without actual hunger.

like Occurrences 143%

It must come to an end some day like all crazes, but at the present moment it has destroyed society.

than Occurrences 130%

It seemed a fitting place for the sittings of the Senate and the deliberations of a chosen body of men, who were supposed to bring a maturer judgment and a wider experience in the discussion of all the burning questions of the day than the ardent young deputies so eager to have done with everything connected with the old regime and start fresh.

about Occurrences 128%

Quails, too, seek the shade during the heat of the day about tepid pools in the channels of the larger mid-river streams.

over Occurrences 101%

It's hard for a young girl to have patience for old age sitting and chewing all day over the past.

among Occurrences 100%

They pretend that the fourteenth day of the first month was a blessed day among the Israelites, authorised, as they pretend, by the several passages out of Exodus, v. 18: "In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day at even," v. 40.

during Occurrences 99%

This was the programme every day during the dog watch.

through Occurrences 96%

We had been passing during most of the day through unbroken forests, standing up in stately majesty on both sides of the river, and stretching back the Lord knows how far.

into Occurrences 94%

I remember how, in my boyhood, I listened to their voices, which came up loudest, shrillest, merriest, when twilight was spreading its grey mantle over the earth; while the song of the birds was hushing into silence, and the coming darkness was lulling the things of the day into repose;

under Occurrences 93%

Mrs. Rabbet isn't a day under forty-nine.

between Occurrences 78%

The time fixed for the recitation of the entire office of the day is from midnight to the midnight following, and anyone bound to recite the Divine Office does not sin gravely if he has recited carefully the entire office of the day between these limits of time; because, within these limits, the substance of the obligation binding to time is fulfilled.

out Occurrences 57%

I made you three pen-wipers to-day out of the old red table-cover.

against Occurrences 37%

February 12th, 1885.To-day, Captain Sauvallier attacked the enemy with extreme vigour, fought all the day against considerable forces, and captured successively three redoubts.

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