Which preposition to use with experimenting

in Occurrences 526%

" "This must have been one of the experiments in the valley that Slade told us of," said the captain, thoughtfully.

with Occurrences 364%

After making a number of curious experiments with it, we bethought ourselves of putting it to some use, and soon contrived, with the aid of it, to make cars and ascend into the air.

of Occurrences 336%

I have determined to repeat my experiment of last night.

on Occurrences 245%

This is no warship, and we ain't got men to experiment on.

for Occurrences 37%

He would be happy in the Experiment for its sheer human fascinations.

by Occurrences 33%

The chemists, with Berzelius and Liebig at their head, at first laughed this idea to scorn; but in 1843, a man then very young, who has since performed the unexampled feat of attaining to high eminence alike in Mathematics, Physics, and Physiology I speak of the illustrious Helmholtzreduced the matter to the test of experiment by a method alike elegant and conclusive.

as Occurrences 28%

Towards evening we returned to our shanty with abundance of fish for supper and breakfast, taken, as I said, in simply trying experiments as to where they were to be found in the greatest abundance.

at Occurrences 23%

"I would put a stone in a stick and chuck it at them" is followed by much experiment at fixing.

to Occurrences 18%

" Experiments to date seem to establish that the connective tissue, at any rate, is "immortal.

FROM Occurrences 12%

Below for the sake of condensed and consecutive presentation, the most important conditions from day to day are arranged in tabular form: CONDITIONS OF EXPERIMENT FROM DAY To DAY FOR PROBLEM 2 Date Punishment Reward May 17 ............. 20 sec.

than Occurrences 7%

There seem, my lords, to be few regulations on which it is more dangerous to make experiments than on that of the armies of a nation.

along Occurrences 6%

A well-known French savant expressed the opinion before the Society of Biology in Paris, that as others experimenting along these lines, had witnessed only degeneration and survival of cells, this phenomenon was all Carrel's discovery amounted to.

without Occurrences 6%

Be not deceived my fellow citizensno nation hath yet made such an experiment without feeling its bitter and dreadful effects.

before Occurrences 6%

The only person who ever claimed, in English, to have made a steamboat experiment before Fitch, was James Rumsey, of Virginia, who, in 1788, published some testimony to show that he had done it as early as April, 1786, that he had broached the idea, confidentially, two years earlier, and that Fitch might have received it from one who violated his confidence.

into Occurrences 4%

I never could resist tampering with drugs of a deleterious nature, and was constantly betrayed by the thirst for scientific experiment into practices incompatible with the public health.

under Occurrences 4%

It was needful to repeat the experiments under conditions which would make sure that neither the oxygen of the air, nor the composition of the organic matter, was altered in such a manner as to interfere with the existence of life.

among Occurrences 3%

Opposite, and across the bay from where our tents were pitched, I noticed that a small stream entered the lake, and Smith and myself crossed over to experiment among the trout I knew would be gathered there.

against Occurrences 3%

The torpedo experiments against the Resistance, which have been suspended since November last, were resumed on June 9 at Portsmouth by the officers of the Vernon.

like Occurrences 3%

I tell you this: he hates the sandal more than the sin, but, strange as it seems, he hates a falsehood worse still; and a falsehood against EveenaIf you want to feel 'how the spear-grass cuts when the sheath bursts,' let him find you out in an experiment like this!

through Occurrences 3%

We were laying out the cable from the two ships, the Agamemnon and Niagara, to connect the two halves of the cable together to experiment through the whole length of twenty-five hundred miles for the first time.

over Occurrences 3%

It would, doubtless, be more difficult to endure than Howells's experiment over Silas Blackburn's body in the old room.

towards Occurrences 3%

And it is only after these two great nineteenth-century movements have worked themselves out to the full, at least on the continent of Europe, that mankind will be able safely to make experiments towards the realisation of the third and crowning principle, the principle of a European Commonwealth.

after Occurrences 2%

There had been, as all the world knows, certain experiments of the government rain-makers followed by rains, and certain experiments after which the earth had remained as parched and the sky as brazen as before.

than Occurrences 1%

Three centuries earlier the monk Roger Bacon did more practical experimenting than the Elizabethan sage; and the latter's famous "idols" are strongly suggestive of the former's "Four Sources of Human Ignorance.

behind Occurrences 1%

With his successful experiments behind him, Marconi was well received in England, and began his further work with all the encouragement possible.

Which preposition to use with  experimenting