Which preposition to use with furies

of Occurrences 633%

No time was lost in lowering our topmasts, taking double reefs, and making every thing snug, to meet the fury of the tempest.

in Occurrences 59%

" Curiosity now prompted me to enter into the thickest of the throng; and I had never seen such fury in the maddest contests between old George Clinton and Mr. Jay, or De Witt Clinton and Governor Tompkins, in my native State.

at Occurrences 42%

And bold Gazul feels his heart bound With fury at the sight; A lion's rage is in his soul, His brow is black as night.

against Occurrences 31%

A tempest of popular fury against the President swept over Italy from end to end.

with Occurrences 30%

She took down her horse-whip, and while she was glutting her fury with it, I reached out my great black hand, raised it up and received the blows of the whip on it which were designed for my head.

on Occurrences 28%

The Germans got the better, and were then free to wreak their fury on the town.

by Occurrences 23%

If a fire breaks out, they think to stop its fury by throwing a black hen into the flames.

from Occurrences 21%

With morning the storm burst in all its fury from out of the north, and Gray Wolf and Kazan lay close together and shivered as they listened to the roar of it over the windfall.

to Occurrences 19%

The Latins returned with increased fury to the siege: but the defence, although more feeble, was still protracted, and Bohemond began to feel not only that fraud might succeed where force had failed, but that from fraud he might reap, not safety merely, but wealth and greatness.

for Occurrences 15%

The bombardment continued with great fury for several hours, with guns of all calibres, but fortunately mostly small, with shrapnel, high explosive, and gas, chiefly lacrimatory, but mixed with a certain quantity of lethal.

than Occurrences 12%

Immediately the summer storm had so far sub-sided that the weapons could be loaded, the battle was continued, raging with even more fury than before, as the enemy tried to overwhelm us by a sudden rush, and in a very few seconds the painted fiends came to understand that it was no longer an easy matter to tomahawk a man immediately after he had fired a shot.

over Occurrences 8%

Imagine his relief and amazed joy when, upon his bell being silenced, the storm, for the first time in the memory of the oldest inhabitant, broke with full fury over Epinal, and, for all the frantic pealing of the other two bells, raged with unspeakable fierceness until his own was brought into requisition, when, as if by enchantment, the rain ceased, the thunder-clouds dispersed, and the sun broke out gloriously from the blue sky.

into Occurrences 7%

Therewith she snatched up the sword of Sir Tristram and she ran with great fury into the room where he lay in his bath.

through Occurrences 6%

He went like a fury through the night.

as Occurrences 6%

Three years altogether did this calamity desolate Athens: continuously, during the entire second and third years of the warafter which followed a period of marked abatement for a year and a half; but it then revived again, and lasted for another year, with the same fury as at first.

like Occurrences 5%

'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned'and he has scorned youfor an actress.

during Occurrences 3%

Even education, gentle training and the sharpest of mental discipline do not always so effectually subdue the passions that they may not be aroused into unwonted fury during a long journey through a country filled with obstructions.

with Occurrences 2%

In commenting on a quotation from the Orestes, of Euripides, he says: There the poet saw the Furies with his own eyes, and what his imagination presented he almost compelled his hearers to behold.

about Occurrences 2%

After piling up the agony for a few months at St. Peter's, Mr. Alker left for Dublin, stayed there a short time, then retraced his steps to Preston, and in due time got the incumbency of St. Mary'san event which seems to have toned down all his fury about the "abomination of Rome," and made him nearly quite forget the existence of Pope Pius.

around Occurrences 2%

We crossed the carrying place of a quarter of a mile around the rapids, in which distance the river falls some sixty feet, roaring and tumbling down ledges and boiling in mad fury around boulders.

of Occurrences 2%

In short, to put the facts into a word, Horace was the Pylades of more than one Orestescreditors being regarded as the nearest modern equivalent to the Furies of the ancients.

before Occurrences 2%

And, in verity, there went a strange greyness of fury before mine eyes, and I then to fight as I did never fight before; and I did smite as it did seem forever.

beneath Occurrences 2%

(Strong, just, I put the furies beneath my throne and the sea beneath my foot.)

from Occurrences 2%

When I implor'd Apollo to remove The grisly band of Furies from my side, He seem'd, with hope-inspiring, godlike words, To promise aid and safety in the fane Of his lov'd sister, who o'er Tauris rules.

towards Occurrences 2%

And amidst a shower of bullets the battalion rushed in fury towards the shells.

Which preposition to use with  furies