Which preposition to use with germs

of Occurrences 436%

When and where the career of these germs of being, starting from points so wide asunder, are to meet, and how the balances of good and evil, of suffering and enjoyment of sinning and retribution, are to be adjusted at last?

in Occurrences 19%

I cannot tell how long I stood looking at her, studying the candid, sweet face, which surely had germs in it of everything that was good and beautiful; and sorry, with a profound regret, that she had died and never carried these promises to fulfillment.

from Occurrences 5%

As the results of his experiments were the same, however varied the nature of the materials he used, it is not wonderful that there arose in Redi's mind a presumption, that, in all such cases of the seeming production of life from dead matter, the real explanation was the introduction of living germs from without into that dead matter.

on Occurrences 4%

Until the microscope revealed the ferment germ on the "bloom" of the apple-skin, very little was known of the changes produced in cider during the mysterious process of "working."

by Occurrences 4%

The spores could not be made to give rise to such germs by cultivation; nor were such germs discoverable in the air, or in the food of the fly.

within Occurrences 3%

This river meandered through the lonesome country, bearing cholera germs within its waters.

into Occurrences 2%

It leads up to a situation as novel as it is dramaticthe confession of a young fanatic, who believes in a lady-healer so implicitly that he puts typhoid germs into the drink of a celebrated general in order to provide her with an impressive subject.

for Occurrences 2%

But though the idea from which many novels start was perhaps the proper germ for one or more lyrics, it never attains in romance a pure and unincumbered development.

at Occurrences 1%

The receptacle is enlarged into a naked club, with the germs at its base; the stamens are affixed to the receptacle amidst the germs (a natural prodigy), and thus do not need the assistance of elevating filaments: hence the flower may be said to be inverted.

out Occurrences 1%

This formation of a National Library was really the germ out of which grew the Old Testament.

with Occurrences 1%

Jack is in Mukden now, where he is about to lose his mind with joy over the prospect of looking straight in the eyeif it has onethis wicked old germ with a new label, and telling it what he thinks.

before Occurrences 1%

But their later mode of development, the degree of perfection acquired by the egg and germ before being laid, the term required for the germ to come to maturity, as well as the frequency and regularity of the broods, are all features varying with the different kinds of animals.

Which preposition to use with  germs