Which preposition to use with exotic

in Occurrences 8%

He pictured her in the dirty mess-room, looking exotic in her fashionable clothes and expensive furs, but no doubt quite serene.

of Occurrences 4%

There was no little Eton at Fettes; nor do I think, if there had been, that a genteel exotic of that class would have tempted either my wife or me.

from Occurrences 2%

Leveque" and "Paul Fugle," which, like wind-blown exotics from other lands, we found within a few yards of each other.

as Occurrences 2%

As for the effect upon the girl of Julien Tenny's brilliant and unsettling personality, I could judge only as I saw them occasionally together, she lustrous and exotic as a budding orchid, he in the non-descript motley of his studio garb, serenely unconscious of any incongruity.

on Occurrences 1%

Even the cluster of exotics on her shoulder were of the same pure tint, gardenias and lilies of the valley.

than Occurrences 1%

In our sycophancy we attach grandeur to the name exotic: we call aristocratic garden-flowers by that epithet; yet they are no more exotic than the humbler companions they brought with them, which have become naturalized.

amongst Occurrences 1%

In games, golf and curling still continue to mark the national charactercricket was long an exotic amongst us.

to Occurrences 1%

I" Of a sudden, interrupting, Chantry arose precipitately: a thin, ungainly figure in shiny, thread-bare broadcloth, exotic to the point of caricature.

beside Occurrences 1%

At the South you will not find a woman cultivating with pain a few exotics beside the front door, while her husband is mowing and burning the far more attractive wild garden that nature has planted just outside the fence.

for Occurrences 1%

But, setting this point aside, and assuming for the sake of argument that the interposition at Dharwar was attended by unmixed benefit to all concerned, does it follow that corresponding success would accompany the mission of fifty military officers to the cotton districts of India for the purpose of inducing the Ryots to substitute exotic for native cotton in their cultivation?

like Occurrences 1%

But the brutal manhood of Rome overshadowed and tainted the gentle exotic like a Upas-tree.

Which preposition to use with  exotic