Which preposition to use with elder

of Occurrences 250%

For me, though I'm ten years the elder of the pair of you, I've no more years than your friend, and I'm a century younger than you.

of Occurrences 177%

The eldest of them was myself, named by my father Broteer.

in Occurrences 77%

Old Mercer was an elder in the little wooden Presbyterian kirk, which I had taken to attending since my quarrels with the gentry.

to Occurrences 14%

" "And yet the English, themselves, say that the services rendered by the elder to the younger brother, and the gratitude of the younger to the elder, are so many additional ties.

at Occurrences 12%

Perhaps if we stated the matter more accurately, we should rate the elder at fifty-six, and the younger somewhere about fifty.

with Occurrences 10%

The Kaimakam (lieutenant- governor) of Haifa came in person to our village and threatened the elders with all sorts of severities if they did not retract the charges they had made.

by Occurrences 8%

"All the same, the uncle is the elder by a week.

for Occurrences 8%

The younger applies to the elder for aid in preference to a stranger, because he thinks he has a claim; and what man who fancies he has a claim, is disposed to believe justice is fully done him; or who that is required to discharge a duty, imagines he has not done more than could be properly asked?" "I fear your opinion of men is none of the best, Mr. Powis!"

on Occurrences 7%

In the midst of this inglorious state of things, and the domestic abundance which was the only compensation for the gradual loss of national influence, the installation of William V., in 1766; his marriage with the princess of Prussia, niece of Frederick the Great, in 1768; and the birth of two sons, the eldest on the 24th of August, 1772; successively took place.

than Occurrences 7%

Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.

on Occurrences 7%

" They had by this time eaten their dessert, and before rising from table Marianne was telling Valentine that she would much like to see and kiss her children, who had not been allowed to lunch with their elders on account of their supposed unruly ways, when a couple of visitors arrived in turn, and everything else was forgotten.

in Occurrences 6%

" "I have a friend who is presiding elder in the A.M.E. Church and his wife, I think, is capable of being a social and intellectual accession in any neighborhood in which they might live.

with Occurrences 5%

Before proceeding formally on their embassy the three envoys managed to obtain private interviews, the two elder with Manto's father, the youth with Manto herself.

after Occurrences 4%

To Joel Rae, Elder after the order of Melchisedek, unsullied product of the temple priesthood, it was a time of wondrous soul-growth.

to Occurrences 4%

Said the eldest to his little brother and sister, "I will go yonder on the sands laid bare by the falling tide, and it may be that I shall find something that we can eat."

from Occurrences 4%

Soon after, the son having rebelled against his father, the latter took back his Jews, and having assembled six elders from each of their communities, he told them that he required 20,000 silver marks, and ordered them to pay him that sum at two stated periods.

into Occurrences 4%

"It is not an uncommon game," my nurse remarked, with a smile; "and she is just an ordinary, nice child!" America is full of ordinary, nice children who beguile their elders into playing with them games that are not uncommon.

among Occurrences 3%

The mention of them will confer upon him a unique glory and will afford the elder among you an innocent pleasure while giving the younger men an exact instruction in the character and constitution of the government.

for Occurrences 3%

He distastes religion as a sad thing, and is six years elder for a thought of heaven.

as Occurrences 3%

But how can I sufficiently praise the wisdom of the centuries in the choice of magistrates, when the younger sought advice from the elder as to what consuls should be created?

after Occurrences 2%

And so on a late winter afternoon in the quiet of the Council-House, Joel Rae was ordained an Elder after the order of Melchisedek; with power to preach and administer in all the ordinances of the Church, to lay on hands, to confirm all baptised persons, to anoint the afflicted with oil, and to seal upon them the blessings of health.

about Occurrences 2%

I've told th' Elder about your verses, an' showed him the hymn you wrote when you was tryin' to give it all up about the land.

by Occurrences 2%

Augustine Washington died in 1743, leaving several children, George being the eldest by his second wife, Mary Ball.

over Occurrences 2%

" It would be wrong to ascribe too much to the immediate influence of the elder over the younger artistat any rate in so far as the frescoes of the Chapel of S. Brizio may have determined the creation of the Sistine.

than Occurrences 2%

In spite of the care bestowed upon its composition, the Arraignment of Paris remains a slight and occasional production; but it nevertheless claims its place as one of the most graceful pieces of its kind, and the ascription of the play to Shakespeare, current in the later seventeenth century, is perhaps more of an honour to the elder than of an insult to the younger poet.

Which preposition to use with  elder