Which preposition to use with death

of Occurrences 6735%

She was very clever, very original, had known all sorts of people, and it was most interesting to hear her talk about King Louis Philippe's court, the Spanish marriages, the death of the Duc d'Orleans, the Coup d'Etat of Louis Napoleon, etc.

in Occurrences 1266%

I had no particular ties nor traditions, had no grandfather killed on the scaffold, nor frozen to death in the retreat of "La Grande Armee" from Moscow.

to Occurrences 465%

Its banner flies over every country and has been carried through tribulation, through sorrow, through danger, and through death to the remotest parts of the yet-known world.

for Occurrences 362%

"It is not death for which we pant, But life, more life, and fuller, that we want.

by Occurrences 359%

He ran risks of death by thirst, by hostile tribes and disease, and went through terrible places where no woman could have lived.

at Occurrences 300%

Whereupon I, who before this seemed to be without life or motionwhy, I do not knowfeeling that the force of the venom was seeking to reach my heart in divers subtle ways, now tossed and rolled upon the cool grass, expecting death at any moment.

on Occurrences 284%

" "Yes, and I suppose I scared myself half to death on purpose too," said Billie sarcastically, as she patted the dog's great head.

with Occurrences 279%

She told them of the hope of life after death with God in Heaven.

from Occurrences 188%

Occasional cases of manslaughter may take place; but don't mind that, as coroners' juries in New-York will return verdicts of "death from natural causes."

as Occurrences 150%

For death as for life, at home or abroad, We pledged to our wives our faithfulest word.

without Occurrences 65%

He seemed to say as well as he could, "I can do without my parki and my mucklucks, but I'll take my death without my amulet.

before Occurrences 53%

Like all her breed, she would face fire and death before water.

than Occurrences 52%

The excesses of the world are a much more fruitful source of disease and death than the attritions of age.

into Occurrences 45%

"Good fellows," said Beltane, "God hath this night brought ye out of death into lifehow will ye use your lives hereafter?

over Occurrences 39%

Until the darkness of the grave and the universal law of change and dissolution shall draw the curtain of death over his sleepshall prove his apparent sleep to be veritable death.

among Occurrences 32%

Thus at the time we speak of, when many deaths among their kith and kin had afforded full proof that the goddess was enraged, they met in solemn conclave and decided to perform every Sunday and Tuesday night for a month such a ceremony as would delight the heart of that powerful deity and stave off further mortality.

under Occurrences 32%

His want of scorn was (according to Shelley's view of the facts), clear enough: he had not been equal to despising a spiteful attack, but had fretted himself to death under it.

through Occurrences 29%

It was the cry that sent men's blood running more swiftly through their veins, that brought the moose and the deer to their feet shivering in every limbthe cry that wailed like a note of death through swamp and forest and over the snow-smothered ridges until its faintest echoes reached for miles into the starlit night.

unto Occurrences 26%

"'O father,' said Abdallah, 'thou hast brought me from death unto life!

like Occurrences 24%

You said if our lives were governed by reason, we would meet death like a philosopher, and I do not know how to die!

within Occurrences 20%

"If it be as you say," said Othello, "I will not rest till a wide revenge swallow them up: and first, for a token of your fidelity, I expect that Cassio shall be put to death within three days; and for that fair devil

during Occurrences 17%

Altogether, then, it may be asserted, that a mother is likely to enjoy better health, and to be less liable to sickness and death during lactation, than during pregnancy.

about Occurrences 17%

Instinctsomething that was infinitely beyond the comprehension of manmade them feel the presence of death about them, perhaps smell it in the air.

against Occurrences 17%

Here two Englishmen, soldiers of fortune or misfortune, as the case might be, who had specialised in recent Mexican revolutions, till the fall of Huerta brought them, too, to unemployment; an Irishman there, for whom the President of Costa Rica had promised a swift death against a blank wall.

between Occurrences 16%

"This is more than can be said of the strip of death between the battle lines.

Which preposition to use with  death