Which preposition to use with gages

of Occurrences 17%

"It is not often a great people go to war for an idea, but we are taking up the gage of battle to teach our inferiors manners.

in Occurrences 6%

And if you stood not here in that King's name, Which I respect e'en where 'tis most abused, I'd throw my gauntlet down, and you should give An answer to my gage in knightly sort.

with Occurrences 4%

The following spring another determined effort was made to starve out the garrison, but the arrival of Colonel Gage with reinforcements from Oxford put fresh heart into the "nest of hornets," and the news that their fortress had been renamed "Basting House" by their admiring friends stiffened their resolve.

to Occurrences 4%

With all her marvellous resources and that amazing war equipment of which you in this country know little, she will soon throw down the gage to England.

at Occurrences 3%

At least my friends are all in the public line, and it might not suit to have it moved at a special vestry by John Gage at the Crown and Horseshoe, licensed victualler, and seconded by Joseph Horner of the Green Dragon, ditto, that the Rev. J.G. is a fit person to be Lecturer, &c.

as Occurrences 3%

CHAPTER I. When Sir William Howe succeeded General Gage as governor and military commander of the New England province, he at once set to work to make himself and the King's cause popular in a social way by giving a series of fine entertainments in the stately Province House.

into Occurrences 1%

She felt as if somehow she had done it; as if her innermost secret self, iniquitously exacting, had thrown down the gage into the arena and that he had picked it up.

Which preposition to use with  gages