Which preposition to use with extravagance

of Occurrences 218%

The better-off live in apartment houses where the economy of central heating is practised, while the majority of the poor occupy tenements where the extravagance of the individual stove is indulged in.

in Occurrences 54%

That was the general tenor of the notes, but there were certain moderate extravagances in either direction, if there be such a thing as a "moderate extravagance.

on Occurrences 8%

" This discreet reproach wounded her so profoundly that she allowed herself at last to say: "Well, monsieur, when there is so much extravagance on the one hand, it is well to be prudent on the other.

at Occurrences 6%

Its walls were made of a red cambric of a flowered pattern that still lingers with me, and was bought with a clatter of pennies on the counter, together with nickels that had escaped my extravagance at the soda fountain.

as Occurrences 5%

Nor were the orgies at Belford's Palace limited to such extravagances as gaming and dicing and drinking, for sometimes the community would be scandalized by the presence of gayly dressed and high-colored ladies, who came, no one knew whence, to enjoy the convivialities at the great house on the hill, and concerning whom it pleased the respectable folk of New Hope to entertain the gravest suspicion.

for Occurrences 5%

"It ain't extravagance for a man as can afford it.

to Occurrences 4%

Byron was, by his own acknowledgment, at this time, "heavily dipped," generosities having combined with selfish extravagances to the result; he had no funds to subject the place to anything like a thorough repair, but he busied himself in arranging a few of the rooms for his own present and his mother's after use.

with Occurrences 4%

" "Signore, you young nobles are often pleased to play your extravagances with the servants of the Republic.

into Occurrences 3%

The nobles ruined themselves by the extravagance into which they were led by the court, and their châteaux and parks fell into the hands of financiers, lawyers, and merchants, who, taking the titles of their new estates, became a parvenu aristocracy which excited the jealousy of the old and divided its ranks."

from Occurrences 3%

All he learnt in his father's house was selfishness, from the example of one, and a love of high life and its extravagance from the other.

without Occurrences 2%

At present, perhaps, you may think yourself in thriving circumstances; and that you can bear a little extravagance without injury: but

by Occurrences 1%

This victory of the tribunes and people was well-nigh terminating in an extravagance by no means salutary, a conspiracy being formed among the tribunes that the same tribunes might be re-elected, and, in order that their own ambition might be the less conspicuous, that the consuls also might have their office prolonged.

beyond Occurrences 1%

That was an extravagance beyond him; and he doubted if the girl really had it in her mind.

around Occurrences 1%

I see nothing but extravagance around me.

through Occurrences 1%

The child Ernie alone saw and wondered at these manifestations of which I first saw the extravagance through his solemn imitations thereof, which yet made me catch him rapturously in my arms and kiss him a thousand times, until he put me aside, at last, with decorous dignity, as one transcending privilege.

among Occurrences 1%

" "My mother has too much sense to think a little extravagance among the men of a family can affect the daughters.

after Occurrences 1%

as if prepared for any extravagance after that.

about Occurrences 1%

It was certainly an extremely odd caseone of those affairs that, coming to light at intervals, but more often remaining unheard of by the general public, convince one that, after all, there is very little extravagance about Mr. R.L. Stevenson's bizarre imaginings of doings in London in his "New Arabian Nights."

Which preposition to use with  extravagance