Which preposition to use with exciting

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.

than Occurrences 20%

" The second half of the game proved, if anything, more exciting than the first.

in Occurrences 18%

This power, as Jamblichus beautifully observes, groups upon, as it were, and fashions all the powers of the soul; exciting in opinion the illuminations from the senses, and fixing in that life which is extended with body, the impressions which descend from intellect.

as Occurrences 17%

Not nearly so exciting as performances of the kind referred to, though, perhaps, quite as rash, are the ocean voyages occasionally essayed by tiny, toy ships.

to Occurrences 16%

There was no other noise of any sort, but a quickening of my pulses, a sensation which I could not call fear, but which was exciting to the point of pain, braced me up for an unusual and horrible sight.

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.

of Occurrences 8%

When first invited to visit the University, I had hoped to make it only a stage and stepping-stone to something yet more interestingto visit the Arctic hunters once more, and join them in the most exciting of their pursuits; a chase by the electric light of the great Amphibia of the frozen sea-belt immediately surrounding the permanent ice-cap of the Northern Pole.

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.

for Occurrences 5%

At the Convent School of the Sisters of the True Faith his services were required once a fortnight; for there were many beds; but his coming was none the less exciting for its frequency.

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.

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.

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.

at Occurrences 3%

One which I found very exciting at the time was against Mrs. Luard in the final for the Cup at Felixstowe.

by Occurrences 3%

Ghangir is at his side, followed by four Mongols whom he is exciting by word and gesture.

from Occurrences 3%

He could not understand this reiterated assault on the Shereefs for the abolition of slavery, not comprehending the absolute necessity of continued agitation on such a difficult matter, as exciting from a despotic and semi-barbarous prince, fortified by the prejudices of ages and generally sanctioned in his conduct by his religion, the emancipation of a degraded and enslaved portion of the human race.

Which preposition to use with  exciting