Which preposition to use with eloquence

of Occurrences 300%

Well, indeed, might the insulting enemies of our Faith reproach us with a supine and disgraceful inattention to the real interest of Virtue, and the true glory of Religion, could we suffer any other order of men to surpass the Ministers of CHRIST in a meritorious zeal to honour this faithful servant of Heaven, whose life exhibits a lesson more instructive and sublime than all the eloquence of the Pulpit!

in Occurrences 73%

Many a young man of his year, whose hob-nailed shoes Pen had derided, and whose face or coat he had caricatured, many a man whom he had treated with scorn in the lecture-room or crushed with his eloquence in the debating club, many of his own set who had not half his brains, but a little regularity and constancy of occupation, took high places in the honours or passed within decent credit.

with Occurrences 19%

Mr. PULTENEY then spoke as follows:Sir, notwithstanding the art and eloquence with which this grant of the merchants' petition has been opposed, I am not yet able to discover that any thing is asked unreasonable, unprecedented, or inconvenient; and I am confident, that no real objection can have been overlooked by the gentlemen who have spoken against it.

as Occurrences 13%

So long as no danger threatened their own lives, goods and chattels, such eloquence as the following extracts were shouted into the world; but when they personally stood face to face with the Moloch upon which for years they had heaped contemptuous abuse, then national (i.e., personal) interests came first.

on Occurrences 11%

She dwelt, therefore, with sincere eloquence on the beauties of the place, and for the first time since they had met, her cousin felt as if there was no longer any point of dissension between them.

at Occurrences 11%

That this eloquence at second-hand is but feeble in its effect, does not restrain others from repeating it.

for Occurrences 9%

This was Chrysostom, whose name has been a synonym of eloquence for more than fifteen hundred years.

from Occurrences 9%

I came as soon as I had heard of it, because you need my helpbecause" he had regained his cordial eloquence from the very cadence of his words.

by Occurrences 8%

The tail proving ineffectual in argument, Pizarro supplemented its eloquence by sharp admonitory yelps, tempered by a sharp crescendo whining, of which he seemed rather proud as an accomplishment.

to Occurrences 8%

How can the dear Rev. SPLURGE SPLUTTER have the heart or tongue to drop his pearls of eloquence to the swine of empty pews?

without Occurrences 6%

They were comparatively inexperienced in parliamentary business, and were watched and fettered by a hostile government, and could not give full scope to their indignant eloquence without personal peril.

than Occurrences 4%

"With no less eloquence than freedom. '

against Occurrences 4%

He maintained that wine wears them out and corrodes them; and pleaded with all the force of his eloquence against that liquor, fatal in common both to the young and oldthat friend with a serpent in its bosomthat pleasure with a dagger under its girdle.

into Occurrences 3%

He infused eloquence into figures; his audiences would listen to his financial statements for five continuous hours without wearying.

among Occurrences 2%

The real reason of this great development of eloquence among the lower orders again brings us back to the case of the aristocracy in earlier times.

over Occurrences 2%

"He reigned," says Lamartine, "by eloquence over the spirit of youth, by beauty over the regard of women, by love-songs which penetrated all hearts, by musical melodies repeated by every mouth.

about Occurrences 1%

There was a rugged eloquence about the boatbuilder which always appealed to her, but this morning it was almost more than she could bear.

behind Occurrences 1%

We have all felt the brazenness of words without emotion, the hollowness, the unaccountable unpersuasiveness, of eloquence behind which lies no love.

along Occurrences 1%

[Coriolanus]; pour the full tide of eloquence along

beside Occurrences 1%

Nan twinkled off the drops that rose at the thought of Laura's joy, and said, with grateful warmth, "You say nothing of your own share in the making of that happiness, John; but we know it, for Philip has told Laura in his letters all that you have been to him, and I am sure there was other eloquence beside his own before father granted all you say he has.

Which preposition to use with  eloquence