Which preposition to use with deceptions

of Occurrences 57%

" With a million and a half men drawn out of the country and ten billion dollars to be expended on war material, making every ammunition factory a labor magnet, it seems like the smooth deceptions of prestidigitation to answer the cry of the farmer with suggestion that men rejected by the draft or high school boys be paroled to meet the exigency.

in Occurrences 25%

"I have practised no deception in common with M. de Chauxville.

on Occurrences 18%

There is another class of adepts, such as sleight of hand performers, slack rope dancers, teachers of animals to perform extraordinary tricks; in short, those persons who delude the senses, and practise harmless deceptions on spectators, included under the common appellation of jugglers.

to Occurrences 10%

Others have ascribed the invention of this deception to the Arabs;be this as it may, Judicial Astrology has been too much used by the priests and physicians of all nations to encrease their own power and emolument.

as Occurrences 9%

[Footnote 2: Neander's Geschichte der Christlichen Ethik, p. 219.] Chrysostom, as a young man, evaded ordination for himself and secured it to his dearest friend Basil (who should not be confounded with Basil the Great, the brother of Gregory of Nyssa) by a course of deception, which he afterwards labored to justify by the claim that there were lies of necessity, and that God approved of deception as a means of good to others.

by Occurrences 7%

Suggestion of Deception by Jesus Christ.

for Occurrences 4%

Time has since taught the world that Venice continued this idle deception for ages after both reason and modesty should have dictated its discontinuance; but, at the period of which we write, that ambitious, crapulous, and factitious state was rather beginning to feel the symptomatic evidence of its fading circumstances, than to be fully conscious of the swift progress of a downward course.

at Occurrences 4%

Most scientific men see through its deceptions at a glance.

about Occurrences 3%

There was no deception about his feats of strength and skill; he was undoubtedly the most terrific fighter and consummate athlete Rome had ever seen, and he was as proud of it as Nero once was of his "golden voice."

than Occurrences 2%

But as patients wish to believe in all manner of "cures," and as all doctors love to believe in the power of their remedies and as nothing is more open to self-deception than medical experience, the whole matter of therapeutics has always been made a great deal more of than the case would justify.

towards Occurrences 2%

Dare she address her Maker, the God whom, in those months of infatuated blindness, she had deserted; Him, whom her deception towards her parents had offended, for she had trampled on His holy laws, she had honoured them not?

after Occurrences 2%

But it is no wonder that Goyder had been so open to deception after unexpectedly finding fresh water in the lake that had been so long known as salter than the sea.

without Occurrences 1%

And then he was in love with his wife, therefore open to deceptions without end, for is not all love a longing after what never was and never can be?

from Occurrences 1%

The Neapolitan ran to the taffrail, and the last he saw of Jacopo, the Bravo, was rowing leisurely back towards that scene of violence and deception from which he himself was so glad to have escaped.

like Occurrences 1%

"But I would rather go on being a fool than suspect any one of a deception like this.

under Occurrences 1%

Again Dr. Hodge cites the incident of Elisha at Dothan as if in illustration of the rightfulness of deception under certain circumstances.

with Occurrences 1%

The intelligence of Herbert's death, though deferred till St. Eval thought his wife enabled to bear it with some composure, had, however, so completely thrown her back, that she was quite unequal to travel to England, as her wishes had instantly dictated, and her husband was compelled to keep up a constant system of deception with regard to her mother's illness, lest she should insist, weak as she was, on immediately flying to her aid.

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