Which preposition to use with excellences

of Occurrences 510%

It is impossible to think as noble men and women have thoughtto dream, love, and work as they have dreamed, loved, and wroughtand not have pass into one's mien the high excellence of such lives.

in Occurrences 148%

He did not find superlative excellence in any of their issues, but then he did not look for it.

as Occurrences 26%

Nor were the words less relished that the eulogist was as ignorant of military excellence as a Malay of the uses of a patent mower.

for Occurrences 13%

The garnish par excellence for dessert is the ice-plant; its crystallized dewdrops producing a marvellous effect in the height of summer, giving a most inviting sense of coolness to the fruit it encircles.

to Occurrences 12%

She more than ever pointed out his excellences to her sons, contrasting his sterling qualities with Harry's love of pleasure and George's listless musing over his books.

with Occurrences 10%

cold thy warrior frame, illustrious Buchan," etc., are of kindred excellence with Gray's "Cold is Cadwallo's tongue," etc.

by Occurrences 9%

It is popularly ascribed to the over-cultivation of the race, as plants and animals highly civilisedthat is, greatly modified and bred to an artificial excellence by human agencyare certainly delicate, unprolific, and especially difficult to rear.

than Occurrences 8%

The northern parts of the English coast, and some places off the coast of Holland, produce turbot in great abundance, and in greater excellence than any other parts of the world.

from Occurrences 6%

With "Joan of Arc" I have been delighted, amazed, I had not presumed to expect anything of such excellence from Southey.

without Occurrences 3%

There will be ruin enough after the war to repair, and a heavy task for all the nations in repairing it; but if they have learned then that peace is not a disguised war but a state of being in which men and nations alike pursue their own ideas of excellence without rivalry, then we shall know that the irrevocable dead have not died in vain.

above Occurrences 3%

At the end of these three days journey, we come to Quinsay, or Guinsai, its name signifying the City of Heaven, to denote its excellence above all the other cities of the world, in which there are so much riches, and so many pleasures and enjoyments, that a person might conceive himself in paradise.

on Occurrences 2%

In ending I would say as in beginning; this is not because salvation may be found through any device, however perfect, but because this itself, by reason of its excellence on the one hand or its depravity on the other, is, under the law of life, contributory to the operation of the divine spirit (which is the sole effective energy) or a deterrent.

among Occurrences 2%

The railroad manager who knows his business is ever on the lookout for excellence among his men, and he promotes those who give an undivided service.

under Occurrences 2%

THE HEIGHT OF EXCELLENCE IN A PHEASANT.Things edible have their degrees of excellence under various circumstances: thus, asparagus, capers, peas, and partridges are best when young.

within Occurrences 2%

It is surely presumption in any man to circumscribe all human excellence within the narrow sphere of his own capacity.

OF Occurrences 1%

4. EXCELLENCES OF THE SCHOOL.Good practices which ought to be persevered in.

at Occurrences 1%

The utmost excellence at which humanity can arrive, is a constant and determinate pursuit of virtue, without regard to present dangers or advantage; a continual reference of every action to the divine will; an habitual appeal to everlasting justice; and an unvaried elevation of the intellectual eye to the reward which perseverance only can obtain.

between Occurrences 1%

The best illustration of the comparative degree of mental excellence between the southern and northern nations, is, perhaps, that of Bishop Berkeley, who compares the southern wits to cucumbers, which are commonly all good of their kind, but at best an insipid fruit; while the northern geniuses are like melons, of which not one in fifty is good; but when it is so, it has an excellent relish.

during Occurrences 1%

The art of the Renaissance reached its greatest excellence during the last three decades of the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth century.

into Occurrences 1%

Why it should have been reviewed at all, excepting for the purpose of bringing its excellences into notice, I cannot conceive; for it was very little read, and there was no danger that it should become a model to the age of that false taste with which I confess that it is replenished.

like Occurrences 1%

Well may those eyes, that view these heav'nly charms, Reject the daughters of contending kings; For what are pompous titles, proud alliance, Empire or wealth, to excellence like thine? ABDALLA.

out Occurrences 1%

But there is another kind of critick still worse, who judges by narrow rules, and those too often false, and which, though they should be true, and founded on nature, will lead him but a very little way toward the just estimation of the sublime beauties in works of genius; for whatever part of an art can be executed or criticised by rules, that part is no longer the work of genius, which implies excellence out of the reach of rules.

over Occurrences 1%

It was a rare instance of magnanimity and absence of ambition which was not without its influence on the destinies of America, making it almost impossible for any future general to retain power after his work was done, and setting a proud and unique example of the superiority of moral excellence over genius and power.

about Occurrences 1%

That is another excellence about our bill of fare.

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