Which preposition to use with declaim

against Occurrences 62%

Alexander Hamilton remarked, on June 18, that "the members most tenacious of republicanism were as loud as any in declaiming against the evils of democracy.

with Occurrences 8%

For the epigram about phosphorus was bombast, since it can be declaimed with equal truth that without oxygen, without carbon, without nitrogen, without any of the food elements that go to make up the chemical composition of brain matter, no thought is possible.

in Occurrences 7%

What Mr. Saffron declaimed in that vibrating, metallic voice, were not poems, butspeeches!

on Occurrences 7%

A country which announces her intention to ignore existing laws and "hack a way through at all costs," should surely be the last to declaim on the alleged offences against the laws of war by a small, weak, unprepared neighbour.

about Occurrences 6%

It means that Lucan, in choosing history, chose something which he had to declaim about, something which, at best, he could imaginatively realize; but not something which he could imaginatively re-create.

for Occurrences 4%

After those tumults controversial preachers, such as San Vicente Ferrer, declaimed for popery against Judaism; and in the first ten years of the fifteenth century a second multitude of forced converts threw themselves into the bosom of the Romish Church, to the discouragement of their brethern and to their own confusion at last.

to Occurrences 4%

He threw himself into their ship; established the most extraordinary intimacies; told them stories; declaimed to them; if they did not applaud his speeches, he threatened them with hanging,which he performed afterwards,and, in a short time, was master of all on board.

before Occurrences 4%

To speak of you as a Soldier, or a Statesman, were only to betray my own ignorance: and I could hope no better success from it, than that miserable Rhetorician had, who solemnly declaimed before HANNIBAL "of the Conduct of Armies, and the Art of War."

at Occurrences 3%

either tell boys the truth about love, or do not put into their hands, without note or comment, the foul devil's lies about it, which make up the mass of the Latin poetsand then go, fresh from teaching Juvenal and Ovid, to declaim at Exeter Hall against poor Peter Dens's well-meaning prurience!

over Occurrences 2%

Maxwell generally called upon him about twelve, and found him in bed or declaiming over his tea.

from Occurrences 2%

[The, WITCH, with great emphasis, begins to declaim from the book.]

as Occurrences 2%

Many of the people, against whom the planters are declaiming as lazy and worthless, have rich grounds of which those planters little dream.

without Occurrences 2%

Mr. PULTKNEY spoke next, in the manner following:Sir, those that have spoken in defence of the motion, have accused their opponents, with great confidence, of declaiming without arguments, and of wasting the time of the session in a useless repetition of objections.

like Occurrences 1%

I sent him ashore, to look about for any straggling seamen who might like our service; and I found him in a tavern, with all the fastenings off his tongue, declaiming like a lawyer who had taken a fee from both parties Besides, he had a quarrel with one of these very men, and it is probable they would get to blows in their cups.

Which preposition to use with  declaim