Which preposition to use with execration

of Occurrences 49%

Arnold's subsequent change of sides earned him the execration of the Americans.

in Occurrences 8%

A man who has been held up to public execration in the press for weeks, and whom no one attempts to defend, is in a bad case if a well-grounded accusation of murder is brought against him at such a moment; and Isidore Bamberger firmly believed in the truth of the charge and in the validity of the evidence.

against Occurrences 7%

The details of this memorable siege are calculated to arouse every feeling of pity for the heroic defenders, and of execration against the cruel assailants.

on Occurrences 6%

We heaped execrations on the luckless peon's head, and I suggested that we should make for the main stream, follow up the bank till we reached the next ghat, where I knew there was a cart-road leading to the factory.

with Occurrences 4%

Grimes he compelled to repeat the particulars of the tale; which he had no sooner done, than he once again slunk away, shocked at the execrations with which Mr. Tyrrel overwhelmed him.

as Occurrences 2%

2. Were there nothing else to prove it a system of monstrous cruelty, the fact that FEAR is the only motive with which the slave is plied during his whole existence, would be sufficient to brand it with execration as the grand tormentor of man.

by Occurrences 2%

Close beside it is the Tower Dean, so called from an ancient fortalice of the Home family which once defended it, and which stands beside a bridge held in just execration by all cyclists on the Great North Road.

for Occurrences 2%

Universal execration for this hideous crime drove him for a time from New York, although he was still Vice-President.

than Occurrences 1%

He who forgets those beings who are his own creation is more worthy of execration than he who leaves life by suicide.

due Occurrences 1%

"If there be one being on the whole earth that feels the scorn and execration due to such a wretch more strongly than another, it is myself.

among Occurrences 1%

The whole arrangement excited a good deal of surprise, and not a few execrations among the officers of the "Caroline;" though none but her Commander had the smallest twinkling of the real reason why the kedge had thus been laid, and why a warp was so awkwardly stretched across their path.

from Occurrences 1%

" Our old friend, he who lent us the catechism, was very happy over this phrase; he said to us: "It is a true hit; it is indeed the portrait of a priestophobe whom the cassock makes think of a shroud, and who holds one in execration from a little fear of the other."

between Occurrences 1%

Shaking his fist at the four jeering carpenters, and muttering a farewell execration between his teeth, he rapidly followed Pet, and soon came up with her.

Which preposition to use with  execration