Which preposition to use with elders

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.

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.

of Occurrences 10%

" The Gerontes, or Gerontia, were the Elders of Sparta, who constituted the Senate.

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%

" 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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

through Occurrences 2%

It is true that the very first exhibits they saw, the lions outside the building, the first paintings they encountered, made an appreciable impression on them; but after this they followed their elders through the interminable crowded halls of the museum, their legs aching with the effort to keep their balance on the polished floors, their eyes increasingly glazed and dull.

at Occurrences 2%

From Paul's declaration to the Elders at Miletus, "I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God," taken in connexion with the fact, that the Bible does not inform us that he spoke to them of slaveholding, you confidently and exultingly infer that it is innocent.

in Occurrences 2%

On the 8th of the Seventh Month they set out, and on the 17th attended the Meeting of Ministers and Elders in London.

on Occurrences 2%

The Wild Ram of the Mountains thought all proselyting should cease in view of the approaching end; that the Elders on mission should withdraw from the vineyard, shake the dust from their feet, and seal up the rebellious Gentiles to damnation.

by Occurrences 1%

At Salt Lake City he enchanted the Mormon Elders by anecdotes of THACKERAY'S relations with their namesake, the London publisher.

with Occurrences 1%

Such times have been not since the light that led The holy Elders with the gift of myrrh.

formas Occurrences 1%

Perhaps it is our reverence for the custom of hanging men that sacredly preserves the elder formas some, even, of the most zealous American spelling reformers still respect the u in Saviour.

around Occurrences 1%

A moment he stood so, turning to look back at the group of priests and Elders around the Prophet, seeking for any sign, even for a glance that should be not unkind.

Which preposition to use with  elders