Which preposition to use with depressing

in Occurrences 15%

I have generally gone into the woods weakened in body and depressed in mind.

than Occurrences 15%

Nothing could be more depressing than the city at that epoch.

by Occurrences 10%

will thy heart mistake, Depressed by rising fear, The answering words that gently break The silence of thine ear?

to Occurrences 7%

Through the opened window came the sound of bells church bellsa sound more depressing to me than superstition, and as nauseating.

in Occurrences 6%

It's damp, you know; good hunting and so on, but a bit depressing in bad weather.

at Occurrences 5%

The General halted, depressed at the reminder.

as Occurrences 4%

In the first place, the book is not nearly so depressing as The Nether World, and is much farther removed from the strain of French and Russian pessimism which had begun to engage the author's study when he was writing Thyrza.

of Occurrences 3%

" His adieus were civil, but only civil: that most depressing of all things to a sensitive nature, a kindly indifference, was manifest in every word he said, and in every tone of his voice.

with Occurrences 3%

not that which in another is contrary to nature be an evil to you; for you are not formed by nature to be depressed with others nor to be unhappy with others, but to be happy with them.

to Occurrences 3%

Feeling in Washington depressed to the lowest depths.

on Occurrences 3%

The lovely face was rather grave and thoughtful for some time after she had started, for the remembrance of last night weighed upon her, and her father's unusual display of anger at breakfast troubled her vaguely; but, presently, after she had cleared a hedge and one of the broken rails, her spirits rose: the sky was so blue, the sun so bright; it was hard to be depressed on such a morning.

by Occurrences 3%

The Blessed Virgin did not leave the Temple without shedding many tears, as she contemplated the state of desolation to which it was reduced, an aspect of desolation which was rendered still more depressing by the marked contrast it bore to the usual state of the Temple on the festival day.

without Occurrences 1%

The times are sufficiently depressing without such a blow as this having to fall on you.

below Occurrences 1%

Moussa Isa of the Somali was the out-cast of out-casts, the pariah of pariahs, prohibited from touching the untouchables, one of a class depressed below the depressed classesin short a Hubshi!

beyond Occurrences 1%

He would accept neither alternative, was depressed beyond the power of comfort, bodily weariness adding to his other ills, and went off at last to bed, without retracting his intention of going away.

during Occurrences 1%

I take it to be certain that Labyrinthodont Amphibia existed in the distributional province which included the dry land depressed during the Carboniferous epoch; and I conceive that, in some other distributional provinces of that day, which remained in the condition of stationary or of increasing dry land, the various types of the terrestrial Sauropsida and of the Mammalia were gradually developing.

for Occurrences 1%

" She then observed that she had been depressed for some time with a sense of her many sins, but that the Lord was now giving her tranquil and joyful rest.

over Occurrences 1%

They were rather crestfallen at our suggestions; for, with the keen, sensitive instinct of children, they felt that their beautiful plan, as they thought it, had somewhere failed, and, though they promised readily enough to consult us 'next time,' we could see that they were puzzled and depressed over all this regulation, when we had seemed to have nothing but admiring appreciation for the similar act of the child in the story.

than Occurrences 1%

A few, a very few, commonly constitute the taste of the time; the judgment which they have once pronounced, some are too lazy to discuss, and some too timorous to contradict; it may however be, I think, observed, that their power is greater to depress than exalt, as mankind are more credulous of censure than of praise.

toward Occurrences 1%

The inside plan of the building resembles a circular gridiron gradually depressed toward the center, at which there is a pit, five feet in diameter.

at Occurrences 1%

There was something terribly depressing at first in this uninterrupted gloom, and for some time after the sun ceased to show his disk above the horizon the men of the Dolphin used to come on deck at noon, and look out for the faint streak of light that indicated the presence of the life-giving luminary with all the earnestness and longing of Eastern fire-worshippers.

during Occurrences 1%

Smoking is very depressing during a march.

as Occurrences 1%

" I scan the windowshalf in hope I may some friendly face detect To meet their blank brown-papered stare, depressing as the cut direct! I pass the house where She is not, to feel an unfamiliar chill; That door is disenchanted now, that number powerless to thrill!

Which preposition to use with  depressing