Which preposition to use with displays

of Occurrences 957%

In the early times, there must have been those who stood apart from their tribesmen in contests of pure athletic skill,in running, jumping, leaping, wrestling, in laying on thew and thigh with arm, hand, and curled fist in sheer delight of action, and of the display of strength.

in Occurrences 502%

The fire, if such it could be called, ran with incredible rapidity along the seams between the planks, forward and aft, until the entire deck was sketched like a pyrotechnic display in thin, vivid lines of incandescence.

to Occurrences 92%

In their hot-houses, it was common to have mirrors in the ceilings, which at once reflected the street passengers to those who were on the floor, and enabled the ostentatious to display to the public eye the decorations of their tables, whenever they gave a sumptuous feast.

on Occurrences 78%

As a good many persons know, LA GISELLE is a ballet whose hundred legs are nightly displayed on the stage of the GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

at Occurrences 58%

Several games were lost which would have been taken into camp by a better display at bat.

before Occurrences 35%

Here it is!" He displayed before the astonished eyes of Nelly Lebrun a paper covered with an exact duplicate of her own swift, dainty script.

for Occurrences 31%

I shall count it a very great privilege to display for you some of the beauties of our city not known to every one.

towards Occurrences 23%

It was also considered that the hostility which he has openly displayed towards the British Erie Protection Committee would predispose him in favor of England's natural enemy.

with Occurrences 22%

After lunch the washing up is to be done in a beautiful new white sink which is displayed with pride.

as Occurrences 20%

But no one ever appealed to Miss Eleanor without being sure, at all events, of a patient hearing, and the following morning Mr. Welsby informed the school that he had been led to reconsider his decision regarding the fifth of November, and that they might have their display as usual.

than Occurrences 16%

But Mathieu was struck less by the appetite which the others displayed than by Beauchene's activity and skill.

during Occurrences 13%

The enemy counter-attacked with a determination fully equal to that which he had displayed during the past fortnight's battle in the hills.

toward Occurrences 13%

"Such indifference as the doctor displayed toward the volcano I have never known.

by Occurrences 7%

But while a few straggling royalists thus stole into his quarters, as if it were to display by their paucity the hopelessness of his cause, the daily arrival of hostile reinforcements swelled the army in the neighbourhood to more than thirty thousand men.

throughout Occurrences 6%

Their French comrades were full of praise for the marked bravery displayed throughout by the American troops, who were fighting at one of the most difficult points on the whole battle front.

within Occurrences 6%

Some conception of their lavish abundance may be made from the fact that, from one standpoint on the summit of Red Mountain, a day's journey to the east of Yosemite Valley, no fewer than forty-two are displayed within a radius of ten miles.

against Occurrences 6%

So violent was the animosity displayed against him that he was dragged before the assembly by the Emperor's guard, and his condemnation was written in the sacramental wine.

from Occurrences 5%

Three days afterwards, four other frigates entered the port, and a broad pendant, such as is borne by the commander of a naval armament, was displayed from the Industry.

without Occurrences 4%

At home, from 1830 to 1848, political liberty was great and powerful; from 1840 to 1848, in particular, it was displayed without any new legal limit being imposed.

among Occurrences 4%

Consequently, there never was such a collection of crude pippins and half-grown windfalls as our native literature displays among its fruits.

like Occurrences 4%

The Blue Shark is the one most often displayed like this.

about Occurrences 4%

The seven precious substances were grandly displayed about it, with silken streamers and canopies hanging all around.

therein Occurrences 2%

Though he still led the same life that they had, he displayed therein other faculties, other inclinations, other views.

through Occurrences 2%

The houses in Park Lane, flower-decked, displayed through their wide-flung windows a constant panorama of brilliantly-lit rooms.

over Occurrences 2%

I am by nature extremely susceptible of street affronts; the jeers and taunts of the populace; the low-bred triumph they display over the casual trip, or splashed stocking, of a gentleman.

Which preposition to use with  displays