Which preposition to use with earnest

in Occurrences 160%

He must be no less in earnest in his search for souls than they in search for gold.

of Occurrences 104%

You get no earnest of me, Sir, and so farewel to you.

in Occurrences 61%

Bescher, as in 1911, earned in 1912 the position of leading base runner in the National League.

about Occurrences 52%

There was something very natural and earnest about himno pose.

for Occurrences 47%

| | | | There is hardly a township in the United States, but a | | person can, in a day or two, earn for himself a family | | machine, actually worth the price asked for itthe same as | | sold at, when purchased of Wilcox & Gibbs, the manufactures.

for Occurrences 30%

" These few words could have removed the mis-undertakings rooted in the minds of those that at San Remo, if they were in earnest for a just solution.

from Occurrences 28%

Underneath this picture stands the favourite horse of William II., one which carried him through numerous engagements, and earned from his Royal master a gratitude and affection that caused him to wish for his preservation in a position where he would constantly be reminded of him.

by Occurrences 22%

Slim-etched, and that slimness enhanced by a conscious kind of collapse beneath the blue-silk girdle that reached up half-way to her throat, hers were those proportions which strong women, eschewing the sweet-meat, would earn by the sweat of the Turkish bath.

with Occurrences 18%

The usual formula gone through upon these occasions is as follows: Citizen approaches the scene of interest, and sees crowds of spectators upon each side; he glances at the workmen, and, after taking stock of both them and the overseer, proceeds to read the opinion of his fellows in their faces, after which he settles down in right earnest with his hands in his pockets for a prolonged stare.

on Occurrences 16%

Our conversations were earned on in English, which he spoke with facility and correctness We soon found ourselves so much to each other's taste, that there was seldom an evening that I did not make him a visit, and pass an hour or two in his company "I learned from him that he was born and bred at Benares, in Hindostan, that he had been intended for the priesthood, and had been well instructed in the literature of the east

as Occurrences 16%

The Boy sat up, eager in his advocacy and earnest as a judge.

than Occurrences 14%

Sprinkled among the Germans are several Americans, more grave and more in earnest than even their Teutonic neighbors, for they are straining their attention to detect a familiar German wordsuch as "Mein Herr," or "Ach."

at Occurrences 11%

These papal dispensations were, however, only earned at the price of prayers and alms, and this was the origin of the troncs pour le beurre, that is, "alms-box for butter," which are still to be seen in some of the Flemish churches.

at Occurrences 10%

Still, any kind of effort-making is better than inaction, and there is something sublime in seeing men working in dead earnest at anything, pursuing an object with glacier-like energy and persistence.

to Occurrences 9%

There's not above a Dozen, besides the Slaves that are chain'd to the Oar, and those Dozen, a Pistole apiece wou'd not only make 'em assist in the design, but betray it in earnest to the Grand Seignior; for them I'll undertake, the Master of it being Pier de Sala, your Father's old Servant, Sir.

during Occurrences 8%

And yet he had effected the change without leaving the penurious little Irish townlet of Dunsloe, which could have been bought outright for a quarter of the sum which he had earned during the single day that he was within its walls.

on Occurrences 7%

" Before the month was over the football games began in earnest on the athletic field.

with Occurrences 7%

"She's been stinting me for twenty-nine years and saving the moneymy money!money that I 'ave earned with the sweat of my brow.

between Occurrences 6%

My wife ran it four years, and earned between | | $700 and $800, besides doing her housework.

as Occurrences 6%

"Well, you've earned as fair title to the name of Duchemin as I ever did to that of Wertheimer.

over Occurrences 5%

When this is printed I shall send it to her, and it may be that she will read it and grow earnest over it, and that her heart will be touched, and that she will never again deserve the name she merits now.

about Occurrences 4%

"For several months in the year the fur-sewers have either no work, or earn about 3s. or 4s.

under Occurrences 3%

A margin of unemployed labour means a bare subsistence wage for low- skilled labour, and it means this wage earned under industrial conditions, such as we find under the "sweating system."

through Occurrences 3%

Cairns was first to see, for he had been told, and he brought to the meeting all the fresh inspirations of his maturity, and they rested upon the solid values earned through a life of hard-held decency.

of Occurrences 3%

We tell the chronicle of parentage, birth, birthplace, schooling, schoolmates, earning of money, marriage, publication of books, celebrity, death; and when we have come to an end of this gossip no ray of relation appears between it and the goddess-born; and it seems as if, had we dipped at random into the "Modern Plutarch," and read any other life there, it would have fitted the poems as well.

Which preposition to use with  earnest