Which preposition to use with enthusiast

in Occurrences 31%

No better evidence may be cited to prove this than the fact, repeatedly demonstrated that in the smaller leagues Base Ball enthusiasts in the city best able to pay the largest salaries frequently withdraw their support of the team because "it wins all the time.

of Occurrences 19%

The air was cold and bleak and in addition to all the rest the enthusiasts of Boston had given up the fight.

for Occurrences 18%

It is also, indeed, intelligible why the enthusiasts for Women's Rights should urge it; but it is much more doubtful whether they are wise.

about Occurrences 5%

Colonel Tod seems to be an enthusiast about the country and the people.

at Occurrences 5%

Turkish Nationalism was kept alive after 1909 by a small group of enthusiasts at Salonikatheir leader was Ziya Bey, who had come up to the Young Turk Congress from Diarbekir, and was one of the first converts to the new idea.

by Occurrences 5%

'He thus characterised an ingenious writer of his acquaintance: "Sir, he is an enthusiast by rule.

like Occurrences 5%

He was no political enthusiast like Samuel Adams, desirous of cutting loose entirely from England, but a wise and sensible man, who was willing to wait for inevitable developments; intensely patriotic, but armed with the weapons of reason, and trusting in these alone until reconciliation should become impossible.

as Occurrences 4%

Corbett and his gifted wife were early ranked among the eager, for he soon became as much of an enthusiast as shein fact, since the baby, he is even more soand derived much happiness from their mutual study and speculation.

to Occurrences 3%

I remember perfectly the visits of the young German enthusiast to my house in Boston and the great pleasure they always gave to my wife and myself.

without Occurrences 2%

And this oneHermia Challoner, an enthusiast without a missiona feminine abnormity, half child, half oracle, wholly irresponsible and yet, by the same token, wholly and delightfully human!

over Occurrences 1%

Now this man, as has been remarked, has a taste for country lifethat is to say, he is an enthusiast over horsesnot betting, but horses in their best form.

with Occurrences 1%

" Raoul gazed at the beautiful enthusiast with an intensity of love and admiration that even her truthful simplicity had never before excited.

from Occurrences 1%

Not many days passed before some enthusiasts from Lyme who had followed the gallant lad were brought back to the Cobb and hanged there in sight of their neighbours.

among Occurrences 1%

Doubtless this fond aspiration finds freest and fairest expression in the Roman Church,a communion that not only encourages, but enjoins, the adoration of the Virgin, in order that certain enthusiasts among men may also aspire to the skies on the wings of pure, yet passionate love.

on Occurrences 1%

He was an enthusiast on Natural History and Mythology, and had written an article for a weekly paper on the reconciliation of the beasts of tradition with the fauna of to-day.

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