Which preposition to use with delays

in Occurrences 388%

subscribers in Prince EDWARD Island, Costa Rica, the Gallipagoes, or other outstanding places, receive their paper rather late this week, they are informed that, in consequence of his having spent three entire days exploring the labyrinth of these islands in order to find the bodies of the unfortunate party of pleasure, (which bodies he did not find,) Mr. P. was very much delayed in his office business.

of Occurrences 227%

Where only thou and I can find an entrance; These dull, these necessary delays of ours Have drawn my Love to an impatient height.

for Occurrences 89%

He had not hesitated nor delayed for an explanation, but had turned track and was now running as fast as his long legs would carry him back toward the opening of the ravine.

to Occurrences 74%

Meanwhile, the lieutenant, Caius Fabius, occupied in pacifying several other tribes, learned from Caninius Rebilus what was going on in the country of the Pictones and marched without delay to the assistance of Duratius.

on Occurrences 64%

He was bent on the relief of Cawnpore and Lucknow, but was delayed on the way by the mutinies at Benares and Allahabad.

as Occurrences 50%

(8) Death and Corruption are now in his chamber, but Corruption delays as yet to strike.

at Occurrences 40%

If you have any delay at Juneau, you will, probably, be asked to take trips to the Giant Glaciers, but my advice is to stay in Juneau until the steamer is ready to start for Dyea.

by Occurrences 25%

If he delayed by ever so little, it was an agony; yet when he did pipe up, his feeble strain struck to my heart cold and paralysing like a dagger.

until Occurrences 22%

"Why, man, Colonel Gansevoort himself sent us back to request that you remain here until he signals, so that everything may be prepared for your comin', and we, knowin' how important it was you delay until the proper moment, risked our lives twenty times over in the effort to bring the word.

from Occurrences 16%

The wind had been pretty good, but we had suffered some delay from a south wind, which headed us for a short time.

with Occurrences 12%

She could delay with safety, for she had proof which would utterly crush and confound the hated interloper.

beyond Occurrences 8%

Nevertheless, as a general rule, both child and parent being in good health, weaning ought never to take place earlier than the ninth (the most usual date), and never delayed beyond the twelfth month.

about Occurrences 7%

There was no delay about that, anywhere along that line of boys.

over Occurrences 6%

At Jackson, some seven miles from the salt works, we were delayed over night by reason of lack of facilities for crossing the Tombigbee river.

after Occurrences 5%

If delayed after that time, they can scarcely return in safety, being unable to contend with the boisterous weather and head winds that then prevail in the Chinese seas.

between Occurrences 4%

You must write me faithfully, both of you, though I suppose we'll have to expect the same delay between letters that we've experienced before.

than Occurrences 4%

The penal statutes of Rome however, as Gibbon emphatically remarks, "formed a very small portion of the Code and the Pandects; and in all judicial proceedings the life or death of the citizen was determined with less caution and delay than the most ordinary question of covenant or inheritance."

against Occurrences 4%

He marched without delay against Santarem, which his soldiers had vainly besieged some years before.

through Occurrences 3%

The result is, so far as our Commission is concerned, a state of confusion and uncertainty with a definite loss and delay through effort being undirected.

before Occurrences 3%

All his life he had to battle against disease, and this is undoubtedly the cause of the long delay before each new step in his course.

due Occurrences 3%

Many officers must have had experience of the inconvenience and delay due to the employment of a single very large vessel which could only coal one man-of-war at a time.

along Occurrences 2%

Ben found himself wondering whether by any chance Ezram had been delayed along the trail, perhaps had even lost his way, and had not yet put in an appearance.

into Occurrences 2%

three times in succession and demanded to be shown without delay into the presence of Rosalind? As we know already, the great stage manager had not come over-willingly or over-hopefully to Northampton to see Tony Holiday play Rosalind.

like Occurrences 2%

Meanwhile the brash and thinner floes are melting; everything of that sort must helpbut it's trying to the patience to be delayed like this.

under Occurrences 2%

It directed Popova to bring the shameless daughter back to Morovenia immediatelynot a moment's delay under pain of the most horrible penalties that could be imagined.

Which preposition to use with  delays