Which preposition to use with defines

as Occurrences 168%

Sin is not an intellectual toy, for philosophers to play with or define as "a limitation of being."

in Occurrences 87%

Do you think you would find them defined in Webster?" Unavella's eyes twinkled through her gloom.

with Occurrences 14%

A sloping plateau, some 19,000 feet above the sea-level, is defined with remarkable clearness in the direction from which we viewed it.

against Occurrences 11%

And here, standing a little to one side of the trunk, as motionless as the trunk itself, appeared the man they were in quest of, his outline being well defined against the sky beyond.

for Occurrences 11%

"For me," he continued smoothly, "only one thing has ever remained evident, and well-defined for long, and that, my lady, is money.

at Occurrences 9%

137.German Sportsman, drawn and engraved by J. Amman in the Sixteenth Century.] Hunters and sportsmen in those days formed brotherhoods, which had their rank defined at public ceremonials, and especially in processions.

to Occurrences 7%

That into which we next entered was so dark that its form and dimensions were scarcely defined to my eyes.

on Occurrences 7%

FourteenGerman troops to cease at once all requisitions and seizures and any other undertaking with a view to obtaining supplies intended for Germany in Roumania and Russia (as defined on August 1, 1914).

than Occurrences 6%

The Opposition If the new nobility was less sharply defined than the old aristocracy of the clans, and if the encroachment on the other burgesses as respected the joint enjoyment of political rights was in the one case -de jure-, in the other only -de facto-, the second form of inferiority was for that very reason worse to bear and worse to throw off than the first.

under Occurrences 5%

This means a reversion to the boundary defined under Russian arbitration at Petrograd in January 1913except outside the fortress of Silistria, where strategic reasons demand its rectification.

within Occurrences 2%

There was practically no commerce; there was little sale of land; questions of property were defined within very narrow limits; a mass of contracts, bills of exchange, and all the complicated transactions which trade brings with it, were only beginning to be known.

without Occurrences 2%

Had the South then been content with separation on the lines of "Mason and Dixon's line," I am convinced that it would have taken place without a struggle, if the position could have been defined without bloodshed.

by Occurrences 2%

Often, also, both orators and poets define by metaphor, relying on some verbal resemblance, and indeed not without giving a certain degree of pleasure.

before Occurrences 2%

ThirteenEvacuation by German troops to begin at once and all German instructors, prisoners, and civilian, as well as military agents, now on the territory of Russia (as defined before 1914) to be recalled.

from Occurrences 1%

" The mysteries of orb and cycle, with which old astrologers girded human life, and sought to define from celestial phenomena the horoscope of man, have been brought down to modern applications by learned philosophers and mathematicians.

along Occurrences 1%

the twilight ceased to increase, and remained as dim as that cast by the crescent moonassumed the outline of a slender trunk supported by wings, dark for the most part but defined along the edge by a narrow band of brightest green, visible in a gleam too faint to show any object of a deeper shade.

attributeslike Occurrences 1%

I tore my hair, for "Bailey" is a wholly imaginary friend of little Jane, whom I invented one evening at her bedside and who has grown gradually into a personage of clearly defined attributeslike the "Putois" of Anatole France.

beforehand Occurrences 1%

She could not define beforehand the limits which she would observe in defending Russia's cause.

between Occurrences 1%

Each outer line trends upward so surely toward a single focus; each whole is so sharply defined between its base-line of sea and its background of sky, that, like a statue, each island is compact and complete in itself, an isolated and self-dependent organism; and therefore, like every beautiful statue, it looks much smaller than it is.

during Occurrences 1%

The extraordinary thing was that the feminist movement was never clearly defined during all the time of its maximum violence.

across Occurrences 1%

The shadows of the tree-trunks lie black and defined across the roadbranches, twigs, every thingthen comes a sweep of steely cloud, and they disappear, swallowed up in one uniform gray: a colorless moment or two passes, and the sun pushes out again; and they start forth distinct and defined, each little shoot and great limb, into new life on the bright ground.

of Occurrences 1%

Nothing like defining of terms when we talk.

out Occurrences 1%

There be many kinds of desperation, whereof some be holy, some unholy, as one distinguisheth; that unholy he defines out of Tully to be Aegritudinem animi sine ulla rerum expectatione meliore, a sickness of the soul without any hope or expectation of amendment; which commonly succeeds fear; for whilst evil is expected, we fear: but when it is certain, we despair.

over Occurrences 1%

She was quite alone, sitting in all state and expectation, in one of the alcoves, while the deep shadow of the house fell distinct and well defined over the wilderness of a garden.

through Occurrences 1%

Standing out clearly defined through her whole life was a noble soul that never stooped to anything common, low, debasing or vulgar.

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