Which preposition to use with excite

in Occurrences 217%

What a train of new thoughts, hopes, and desires, did this intelligence excite in me!

by Occurrences 69%

The envy of one part of mankind is excited by reputation, or interest, or dignity, or power.

at Occurrences 22%

I've only got bird-shot in my gun but at close quarters that ought to do as well as a bullet, eh, Frank?" asked Jerry, excited at the prospect.

against Occurrences 21%

But a hostile feeling had been excited against him by her friends, for the manifestation of which an opportunity was afforded about five months after her marriage.

to Occurrences 16%

Family histories, like the imagines majorum of the Ancients, excite to virtue; and I wish that they who really have blood, would be more careful to trace and ascertain its course.

among Occurrences 15%

Moreover, as it is only by the civic virtues that our citizens recommend themselves to popular favour, there is nothing of that enthusiasm which military success excites among the natives.

with Occurrences 12%

The country for fifty miles around was excited with the cheerful anticipation of the approaching festival of religious feeling and social friendship.

on Occurrences 6%

Coubitantfor it could be no other than hesaw clearly the impression that his appearance had excited on the assembled party of his old acquaintances; but he was an adept in dissimulation, and he entirely concealed his feelings under the garb of pleasure at this reunion after so long a separation.

about Occurrences 5%

"Say, think of getting excited about a mouse!" cried Ferd incredulously, when she had finished.

into Occurrences 5%

Through her I learned that much pains had been taken to intensify and excite into active hostility the dislike and distrust with which they had always been regarded by the public at large, and especially by the scientific guilds, whose members control all educational establishments.

throughout Occurrences 5%

An astonishing enthusiasm was excited throughout Christendom in behalf of the Templars; princes and nobles, sovereigns and their subjects, vied with each other in heaping gifts and benefits upon them, and scarce a will of importance was made without an article in it in their favor.

from Occurrences 4%

If the pain arise simply from irritation of the bowels excited from indigestion, it will be temporary, and the sign will go and come just as the spasm may occur, and slight remedial measures will give relief.

over Occurrences 4%

HALF-PAST TWELVE.Market excited over a dog-fight.

amongst Occurrences 4%

I will say no more, notwithstanding the curiosity it has excited amongst the members of the profession.

beyond Occurrences 3%

Their enthusiasm was excited beyond bounds, and the more impulsive of the two, a young Scotchman, dashed ahead, shouting and gesticulating and tossing his arms in the air like a madman.

during Occurrences 3%

Only a grinding despotism could compose them, and those who wielded such despotism for a short time excited during the period of their rule such fierce and universal hatred, that they were invariably overturned and almost invariably murdered before their very brief legal term of office had closed.

as Occurrences 3%

THE GUINEA-HEN [Fluttering forward again, excited as ever.]

towards Occurrences 3%

The attention of the people was roused, and their gratitude excited towards the Bible Society, and they who had freely received, now freely gave, and thus a considerable sum of money was presented to the parent society in acknowledgment of its beneficent grant.

for Occurrences 2%

Within the memory of those now living, gold background pictures of the schools of Giotto and his successors, owing to the contempt the pseudo-classical French taste had excited for them, were brought out of suppressed churches and convents and publicly burned to obtain the trifling amount of gold which remained in the ashes.

between Occurrences 2%

It must now be apparent that all such attempts, if persevered in, can produce only feuds and collisions of the most painful character, and besides increasing the feelings of international discord which have already been excited between the contending parties, they will close every avenue to an amicable adjustment of a controversy which it is so much the desire and interest of both Governments to accomplish.

without Occurrences 2%

There are thousands, probably, who have here had their emotion of taste excited without one thought of that Being by whom these wonders were created, one thought of their relation to Him, of their duty to Him, or of admiration at that unmerited goodness which allows them to be witnesses of his majesty and power as exhibited in these wonders of nature.

through Occurrences 1%

" To explain this apparent anomaly Westermarck assumes that the object of the concealment "is to excite through the unknown!"

talkfrom Occurrences 1%

She put it together as best she could from his hurried, excited talkfrom stories half told, fierce charges against 'charlatans' and 'intriguers,' mingled with half-serious, half-comic returns upon himself, attacks on all the world, alternating with a ruthless self-analysisthe talk of a man who challenges society one moment with an angry 'J'accuse!'and sees himself the nextsardonicallyas the chief obstacle in his own way.

like Occurrences 1%

As soon as any accident happens to the crown of these Sequoias, such as being stricken off by lightning or broken by storms, then the branches beneath the wound, no matter how situated, seem to be excited like a colony of bees that have lost their queen, and become anxious to repair the damage.

within Occurrences 1%

For the first time he experienced those delicious sensations which new-born love excites within the breast; and the enchantment operated upon him so rapidly and so strongly, that he was overpowered by its spell almost before aware of it.

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