Which preposition to use with fastidious

in Occurrences 25%

Children learnt to describe accurately, to be very fastidious in choice of words, to ask direct questions, to give verbal form to thought, all through the stress of such gamesMan and his Shadow, Clumps, Subject and Object, Russian Scandal, the Minister's Cat, I see a Light, Charades, and acting of all kinds.

about Occurrences 14%

He was fastidious about his clothes, and his tailor cleverly hid the bulkiness of his figure.

as Occurrences 9%

Homely as any man I had ever seen, there was a magnetic quality in his voice and manner that affected even one so fastidious as myself.

with Occurrences 6%

Hence the free colored population of the North are specially liable to become the victims of this terrible power, and all the other inhabitants are at the mercy of prowling kidnappers, because there are multitudes of white as well as black slaves on Southern plantations, and slavery is no longer fastidious with regard to the color of its prey.

than Occurrences 6%

" "Vernon's a good sort and more fastidious than one thinks; he saw he'd be forced to venture on rather awkward ground, and there was some doubt.

of Occurrences 5%

Most of them have fair complexions; their rose and jasmine faces, their pure wax-like delicate features, and their exceedingly expressive and bewitching eyes, would fascinate the most fastidious of European connoisseurs of female beauty.

on Occurrences 2%

Still her claims were admitted by the most fastidious on such points, for a few do remain who think descent indisputable to gentility; and as her means were ample, and her tastes perhaps superior to those of most around her, she kept what was thought a house of better tone than common, even in the highest circle.

amid Occurrences 1%

Have we escaped the French fashions of à-la-mode watering-places, to be fastidious amid wigwams and unpeopled shores?

against Occurrences 1%

He thus gave a remarkable proof alike of his reverence for his art, of his insight into its powers, of the superiority he had acquired to all the more commonplace illusions of self-love, and perhaps of his presaging consciousness that the great, if they mean to fulfil the measure of their greatness, should always be fastidious against themselves.

to Occurrences 1%

And, of course, Madame du Deffand's tastes were far from catholicthey were fastidious to the last degree.

at Occurrences 1%

"He is so fastidious at table, he eats nothing.

among Occurrences 1%

Eustace Eubanks entertained "one and all" by exhibiting and describing lantern views of important scenes in the Holy Land; Marcella sang "Comin' Thro' the Rye" with such iron restraint that the most fastidious among us could have found no cause for offence, and Eustace sang an innocent song of war and bloodshed and death.

by Occurrences 1%

Few people can have more need than we to be careful what they eat,we have got such a pair of troublesome cranky little bodies; and if you can suit them, I feel sure you will be able to suit any invalid that is not fastidious by nature rather than necessity.

Which preposition to use with  fastidious