Which preposition to use with father

of Occurrences 2704%

The two great features of the evening were the young King of Spain (the father of the present King), a slight, dark, youthful figure, and the Lord Mayor of London, who really made much more effect than the King.

in Occurrences 839%

Our Father in Heaven, Creator of all, O source of all wisdom, On Thee we would call!

to Occurrences 526%

"I was not slow to follow Veenah to the city, and as had been agreed upon, had to ask the consent of her father to our union, as soon as I had obtained the approbation of my own.

for Occurrences 239%

I afterwards learned they had mistaken the herder, who had ridden home with me, for my father for whom they had been watching.

with Occurrences 216%

"I would have willingly filled you up a check with the cost of the floral decorations, Marion," said her father with a twinkle in his eye.

at Occurrences 166%

Prince Bismarck sent out the invitation for the first sitting: [Footnote 1: The Crown Prince represented his father at all the functions.

on Occurrences 159%

At length a murmur, like that of distant thunder, ran through the crowd: a passage was, with some difficulty, effected through the multitude by the officers in attendance, and the wretched Veenah made her appearance, supported by her own father on one side, and an uncle on the otherpale enough to be taken for an Europeanemaciated indeed, but still retaining the same exquisite beauty of features and symmetry of form.

from Occurrences 102%

I was a boy then, and was returning with my father from a visit to Vermont.

as Occurrences 98%

The piano was open, music littered about; she was fond of music and she admired very much a portrait of father as a boy in the Harrow dress, asked who it was and what the dress was.

by Occurrences 93%

Yes; but could she throw suspicion upon her father by writing to strangers, and of necessity exposing the sinister secrecy of her father's action.

before Occurrences 81%

It was a place shunned by the people of the village, as it had been shunned by their fathers before them.

about Occurrences 64%

Then thus; before I knew she was your Mistress, I had resolv'd upon Addresses to her, in order to't, have treated with her Father about a Marriage. Ant.

into Occurrences 38%

Their orisons seemed to speed the ascending figure, which was rising rapidly, when suddenly appeared in air Luxury, Simony, and Cruelty, contending which should receive the Holy Father into her bosom.

than Occurrences 27%

The thick prominent lips yield place to more delicate mouths, the shapeless nose to the slightly aquiline, for there are half-breeds here, who take more after their Indian fathers than their African mothers, and who serve as a living example of the tricks that Nature can play in the intermingling of races.

without Occurrences 23%

I tried to invent some way of telling this to my father without letting him perceive that Morphew had been finding faults in him, or I listening; for it seemed a pity to lose so good a joke.

like Occurrences 20%

Frank Goursey is my love, and he loves me; But both our mothers hate and disagree; Our fathers like the match and wish it done;

out Occurrences 18%

And what did Jacob get, who so meanly bought the birthright, and cheated his father out of the blessing?

through Occurrences 18%

Above Canterbury certainly, and all along my way, there is not a meadow nor a wood, nor indeed a single mile of that landscape, which has not been contrived and created by man, by the love and labour of our fathers through how many thousand years.

after Occurrences 13%

But now that the old soldier was leading us around the encampment to the end that we might gain a position between Brant's force and those at Oghkwaga, I said to myself, with many an inward shudder, that we were like to join Jacob's father after a different fashion than we had counted on.

during Occurrences 12%

The end and object of the Office are to invite us to join in the infinite praise which the Son of God rendered to His Father during His life, and which He renders still in Heaven and in the Tabernacle.

over Occurrences 11%

I grinned at my father over the crossed blades, for I could read something in his face that steadied my hand.

among Occurrences 8%

In earlier years Mr. Delamere had been a practicing lawyer, and had numbered Miller's father among his clients.

unto Occurrences 8%

No longer are you father unto me,

until Occurrences 7%

"I have to go away with my father until the end of next week.

near Occurrences 7%

She knew them all,the mother at the bedside, the father near the door, even the nurse who was flitting about disturbing the silence.

Which preposition to use with  father