Which preposition to use with friends

of Occurrences 5895%

We went out and breakfasted at Compiegne with a great friend of ours, M. de St. M., a chamberlain or equerry of the Emperor.

in Occurrences 1887%

At the time of the christening I was in France, staying with some friends in the country.

to Occurrences 980%

Grevy was always a good friend to W.on one or two occasions, when there was a sort of cabal against him, Grevy took his part very warmlyand in all questions of home policy and persons W. found him a very keen, shrewd observerthough he said very littlerarely expressed an opinion.

with Occurrences 750%

He visits all these lakes in the summer season, and though, as a general thing, he travels alone, yet he sometimes has half a dozen friends with him.

at Occurrences 607%

When my engagement was announced one of my great friends at the German Embassy (Count Arco) said to me: "This is the end, I suppose, of our friendship; I can never go to see you when you are the wife of a French deputy."

on Occurrences 316%

The preliminaries had been long and difficultthe marshal and his friends on one sidethe Republicans and Gambetta on the otherthe moderates trying to keep things together.

from Occurrences 274%

One of my first small difficulties after becoming a Frenchwoman was to eliminate some of my German friends from my salon.

for Occurrences 270%

In 1351 Boccaccio had the pleasure of bearing to the poet Petrarch the news of the restoration of his rights of citizenship and of his patrimony, both of which he had lost in the troubles of 1323, and during this visit the two geniuses became friends for life.

as Occurrences 168%

He would never get such a pleasant friend as Aylmer again.

by Occurrences 152%

On takin' her seat she said: "My femail friends by birth, and my femail friends by brevet;" "We have convenshed for the purpuss of having our rites redressed" A voice: "Haden't you better go home and redress yourselves first?"

among Occurrences 109%

I have grown up among ministers, and have had many friends among themsome of them have cared for me.

of Occurrences 91%

Most of the Friends of Liberty in Canada fled either with or before their beaten forces.

than Occurrences 78%

Sure no man e'er was blest with truer friend than thou, my Fidelis; brave art thou, yet tender as any woman, and rather would I have thy love than the love of any man or woman soever, henceforth, dear my friend.

in Occurrences 77%

" "Friends in Council.

like Occurrences 70%

It was so nice to have one's friends like you!

into Occurrences 55%

Next day Brutus endeavored to rouse his men to another effort; but they sullenly refused to fight; and Brutus withdrew with a few friends into a neighboring wood.

about Occurrences 53%

" Pyrrhus was not angry at this speech, but spoke to all his friends about the magnanimous conduct of Fabricius, and intrusted the prisoners to him alone, on the condition that, if the senate refused to make peace, they should be allowed to embrace their friends, and spend the festival of the Saturnalia with them, and then be sent back to him.

without Occurrences 45%

Few could resist those eyes, and certain it is that Patsy Doyle was a universal favorite and won friends without a particle of effort.

during Occurrences 28%

The woman had made no friends during her long residence in the neighborhood, having isolated herself at "the big house" and refused to communicate in any way with the families living near by.

after Occurrences 26%

The two girls were sure friends after that, much to the surprise of Mr. Dabney Kinzer.

through Occurrences 22%

"Do not cry, do not cry," said old Ma Fuller, Mary's native friend through the years.

near Occurrences 21%

I labored to increase Our means, or great or small; When 'mong friends near death did appear, On knees to help I'd crawl.

out Occurrences 21%

' They both laughed, and Edith gently pushed her friend out of the room.

against Occurrences 18%

And so what Colonel Musgrave said was: "Put it that a burnt child dreads the fireis that a reason he should not warn his friends against it?"

around Occurrences 18%

And according to another anecdote which we readyet more interesting and equally illustrative of his characterit was during his last moments, when he was lying apparently unconscious and insensible, that the friends around his bed were passing in review the acts of his life, and the nine trophies which he had erected at different times for so many victories.

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