Which preposition to use with fattened

on Occurrences 47%

Ducks reared exclusively on vegetable diet will have a whiter and more delicate flesh than those allowed to feed on animal offal; while the flesh of birds fattened on the latter food, will be firmer than that of those which have only partaken of food of a vegetable nature.

in Occurrences 17%

No one who is not looked up to by a crowd of grateful dependents, all fattening in the shadow of his prosperity, as it were, can understand Mr. P's.

for Occurrences 16%

Then they went to the house and at the first door they opened they liberated fifty people who were being fattened for the enchanter's table.

to Occurrences 4%

But I in my innocence wanted nothing but the meager outline of a pirate's life, which I might fatten to my uses.

by Occurrences 3%

The "Ménagier" tells as that, as is the present practice, chickens were fattened by depriving them of light and liberty, and gorging them with succulent food.

with Occurrences 3%

From a man who is condemned to labour and to danger, only that others may fatten with indolence, and slumber without anxiety?

at Occurrences 2%

If Bubo keeps a catamite or whore, His bounty feeds the beggar at his door: And though no mortal credits Curio's word, A score of lacqueys fatten at his board: 120 To Christian meekness sacrifice thy spleen, And strive thy neighbour's weaknesses to screen. POET. Scorn'd be the bard, and wither'd all his fame, Who wounds a brother weeping o'er his shame!

during Occurrences 2%

Hence the Hartfield property, always a fine estate, had been nursed and fattened during a long minority, and the present Lord Hartfield was reputed one of the richest young men of his time.

without Occurrences 2%

Their hungry swarms the peaceful vale shall fright, Still fierce to threaten, still afraid to fight; The teeming year's whole product shall devour, Insatiate pluck the fruit, and crop the flow'r; Shall glutton on the industrious peasants' spoil, Rob without fear, and fatten without toil; Then o'er the world shall discord stretch her wings; Kings change their laws, and kingdoms change their kings.

through Occurrences 1%

Fattening through the endless summer, Like his own provision ground, He had reached the summum bonum Which our latest wits have found.

off Occurrences 1%

One half of the room was full of swinefat, blowse-necked Jewish men, lawyers, cadets, owners of housesall the low breeds who fatten off the degradation of women.

like Occurrences 1%

There are pasture-lands where stock will fatten like pigs without any other feeding; there are fertile soils which will raise almost any crops, and there are intelligent Indians who can be taught to work and be useful members of society.

out Occurrences 1%

All that Tom required, as he fattened out of baby- into boyhood, was room in which to be warm, on the grass-patch, or by the kitchen-fires, to be stupid, flabby, sleepy,kicked and petted alternately by the other hands.

Which preposition to use with  fattened