Which preposition to use with dine

with Occurrences 1071%

He often dined with us in our own house, en petit comite, and was always charming.

at Occurrences 542%

Sometimes he came home very late for nine-o'clock dinner; sometimes he dined at Versailles and only got home at ten or eleven if the sitting was stormy.

in Occurrences 167%

"I dine in the kitchen when I am at home," replied Rawdon minor, "or else with Briggs."

on Occurrences 75%

We dined with mother on Christmas day, a family party, with the addition of Comte de P. and one or two stray Americans who were at hotels and were of course delighted not to dine on Christmas day at a table d'hote or cafe.

to Occurrences 25%

We dine to-day with his Excellency.

for Occurrences 13%

For two years and eight months of Saturday nights, each one of them a semaphore dropping out across the gray road of the week, Gertie Slayback and Jimmie Batch dined for one hour and sixty cents at the White Kitchen.

without Occurrences 12%

Numbers of them will dine without the use of either knives, forks or spoons, and when dinner is over, there is but one dish to be washed.

by Occurrences 9%

Louise was dining by the bedside of Madame de Sévénié, who remained indisposed, a shade more so than yesterday.

from Occurrences 6%

Who enters Ceiner's is prepared to dine from barley soup to apple strudel.

like Occurrences 6%

This officer was amazed at his host's preparations, and said, "When we are campaigning, and get hungry, we knock over the first animal we find, cut off a steak, powder it with salt, which we always have in the sabretasche, put it under the saddle, gallop over it for half a mile, and then dine like princes."

under Occurrences 6%

The party dined under the trees (pointing to some large sugar-maples then standing in the military garden, under the cliffs).

after Occurrences 4%

An orator who suggests a new view of any topic is a disturber of the digestive organs,this was very properly a matter of offence to the Aldermen who were to dine after the oration,but an orator who tampers with the language we have inherited from Shakspeare and Milton, and which we share with Tupper, was an object for deeper reprobation.

off Occurrences 3%

No oneto my knowledge at leastever dines off the proverbial cabbage or turnipperhaps it would be better if they did now and thenbut, that by the way.

as Occurrences 3%

Some of them were overwhelmed with the importance of their position; none were ever modest enough to perceive their own small individuality amidst their judicial environments; and this thought reminds me of an occurrence at Liverpool Assizes, when Huddlestone and Manisty, the two Judges on circuit, dined as usual with the Lord Mayor.

before Occurrences 3%

Pray, E., get to Snow Hill before 12, for we dine before 2.

behind Occurrences 2%

SCREEN, Johnson dines behind one, i. 163, n. 1. SCRIPTURE PHRASES, ii. 213. SCRIPTURES, in Erse: See under SCOTLAND, Hebrides, Erse; evidence for their truth: See under CHRISTIANITY.

through Occurrences 1%

Accompanied by his wife, he was motored and wined and dined through the conquered country under the watchful chaperonage of German officers.

among Occurrences 1%

There then dined among the company, JOHN ECHARD, the author of The Contempt of the Clergy, who sate at the lower end of the table between the archbishop's two chaplaynes SAMUEL PARKER and THOMAS THOMKINS, being the first time that the said ECHARD was introduced into the said archbishop's company.

along Occurrences 1%

The Persian court is very magnificent, being attended by many high officers of state, and every day 400 persons dine along with the king.

beside Occurrences 1%

Although we live under a democratic government, the rule of equality, the time is still far off when you will see the noble father dining beside the prefect at the table of the judge of appeal, and the actress open the ball with the prefect at the house of the general-in-chief!

en Occurrences 1%

Dryden employed his mornings in writing; dined en famille; and then went to Wills's; only he came home earlier a'nights' Mr. Foss says of Blackstone:'Ere he had been long on the bench he experienced the bad effects of the studious habits in which he had injudiciously indulged in his early life, and of his neglect to take the necessary amount of exercise, to which he was specially averse.'

beneath Occurrences 1%

Thither, amidst the heats of summer, Madame de la Tour, Margaret, Virginia, Paul, and myself sometimes repaired, and dined beneath the shadow of the rock.

amid Occurrences 1%

The ruralizing party were to dine amid the ruins of Berry Pomeroy, and were not expected home till dusk, to a substantial tea.

of Occurrences 1%

Besides this abundant game there were other good things to eat, and the cubs rarely dined of the same dish twice in succession.

opposite Occurrences 1%

I have dined opposite Miss Cumberlandonly the two of us at a great tablewith a wide silence around usand the Chinese cook padding to and fro from the kitchen.

Which preposition to use with  dine