Which preposition to use with glee

at Occurrences 26%

Now it was I came to understand that the rain was beginning to fall; the wind came in spiteful gusts, betokening a storm, and I could have hugged myself with glee at the thought that the elements were favoring us in the attempt which, at the outset, had seemed doomed to failure.

of Occurrences 20%

The seriousness of worship blended delightfully with the glee of the festival, and Eubulides, who at first regarded the gathering with bitter scorn, found his moroseness insensibly yielding to the poetic charm of the scene.

in Occurrences 8%

He was in the greatest possible glee in the afternoon, at being sent with another boy, Jim, to carry a package to Mr. Pond's.

to Occurrences 8%

Every mother immediately seized upon the verse, and, setting it to music of her own, sang it as a cradle song to soothe the troubles of infanthood, and repeated it in great glee to the intelligent babe when in a crowing mood, as the poem most fitted for the infant's brain to comprehend.

over Occurrences 7%

Unavella was in great glee over the success of her scheme.

with Occurrences 6%

I seem to remember the last spurt, and the glee with which I ran to announce it.

as Occurrences 5%

For myself, though but a Lowlander, having picked up a few words of the language, I presumed to mingle in their mirth, and joined in the choruses with as much glee as any of the company.

on Occurrences 4%

"When are you to be grand duke?" asked the sixth of the prince, with an expression of murderous glee on her lips and a look of Bacchanalian frenzy in her eyes.

among Occurrences 3%

The days were spent in frolicsome glee among the old Virginia woods, and the nights in healthful repose.

from Occurrences 2%

" The blue waves have not yet tired of their unceasing sports; they still chase each other in mad glee from far over the sea, each striving to outdo his fellows, as they come tumbling in with deep-toned voices.

by Occurrences 2%

Another friend of Vincent Novello's uses the same couplet (from Watt's Divine Songs for Children, Song XXVIII., "For the Lord's Day, Evening") in the description of glees by the old cricketers at the Bat and Ball on Broad Halfpenny Down, near HambledonI refer to John Nyren, author of The Young Cricketer's Tutor, 1833.

for Occurrences 2%

" The following verses, which would form a very appropriate song for Autolycus, were arranged as a glee for three voices by Dr. Wilson about the year 1667.

about Occurrences 2%

Consequently, the glee about himself, which of itself was most tumultuous and jubilant, carried him off his feet.

than Occurrences 2%

" He clapped his great hand on his thigh with more glee than one would have expected him to feel; for this man posed as a cynica despiser of men, a scoffer at charity.

around Occurrences 1%

It would be better to let a crime go entirely unpunished, than to use it as a pretext for turning the whole white population into a mob of primitive savages, dancing in hellish glee around the mangled body of a man who has never been tried for a crime.

across Occurrences 1%

"She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain springs; 15 And her's shall be the breathing balm, And her's the silence and the calm Of mute insensate things.

after Occurrences 1%

" "Pipe downpipe down, Bucky," said Petrak, who seemed in glee after the brandy he had had.

toward Occurrences 1%

The men could be seen hurrying in boyish glee toward the train as it drew near the temporary station, where mail-bags were thrown out and sometimes supplies of food or munitions of war.

into Occurrences 1%

Once, indeed, when a fly came to the door to convey Harcourt to the railway, and he saw from the window of his room the happy school-boy jumping with glee into the vehicle, and heard him say to Mr. Barton, "Oh yes, Sir, I shall be met!"

Which preposition to use with  glee