Which preposition to use with hero

of Occurrences 1353%

The pseudo Joseph Atterley, the hero of the narrative, was born in Huntingdon, Long-Island, on the 11th of May, 1786.

in Occurrences 199%

Mitchell, your hero in your office, that you're always being offended withat least I know the Mitchells by name.

to Occurrences 66%

NO MAN acting Hero to his valet de chambre.

with Occurrences 46%

Need it be said that when he reached dry laud, Mr. P. became a hero with the crowds who had witnessed this heroic struggle?

for Occurrences 31%

Then Semiah, distressed by the sight of this unjust treatment, took off her veil, letting her hair fall over her shoulders, took Antar into her arms and told all that had happened and how she and all the other women of her tribe were indebted to this hero for their honor and liberty.

as Occurrences 29%

The document is still to be seen in the Hungarian state archives, in which the King, led astray by the jealousies that prevailed among his councillors, represents every virtue of the hero as a crime, and condemns him to exile.

on Occurrences 26%

In vain have we maintained those armed heroes on the frontier.

at Occurrences 25%

No man can be a hero at such an awakening.

from Occurrences 25%

The story of the Arab hero from this point in his career is told by Sanderson, the faithful commemorator of great nineteenth-century patriots, a high authority on modern Africa.

among Occurrences 18%

"How can such wickedness exist when war had made so many heroes among our boys?" she mourned.

like Occurrences 14%

He was like that hero she had read aboutrather were not all true heroes like him?

into Occurrences 14%

So the affair continued until the end of the whole business came with a suddenness that promised for a time to cast our hero into the utmost depths of humiliation and despair.

by Occurrences 12%

"And this, ladies," said he, taking our hero by the hand and presenting him, "is a young gentleman who has embarked with me to learn the trade of piracy.

than Occurrences 10%

Arminius is far more truly one of our national heroes than Caractacus; and it was our own primeval fatherland that the brave German rescued when he slaughtered the Roman legions, eighteen centuries ago, in the marshy glens between the Lippe and the Ems.

out Occurrences 8%

"I suppose," he said severely, "you could even make a hero out of that hang-dog Brother Etienne.

without Occurrences 6%

He wrote to the author these three lines, which it is impossible not to quote:"You are heroes without me.

under Occurrences 4%

And in the second book is related, under the title, "Joe Strong on the Trapeze; Or, the Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer," what happened to our hero under canvas.

through Occurrences 4%

Thus, what reader ever followed Defoe's hero through weary, feverish months of building a huge boat, which was too big to be launched by one man, without recalling some boy who spent many stormy days in shed or cellar building a boat or dog house, and who, when the thing was painted and finished, found it a foot wider than the door, and had to knock it to pieces?

against Occurrences 3%

But there is another Johnson, a brave, patient, kindly, religious soul, who, as Goldsmith said, had "nothing of the bear but his skin"; a man who battled like a hero against poverty and pain and melancholy and the awful fear of death, and who overcame them manfully.

before Occurrences 2%

Doubtless, for every great deed ever narrated, there were a hundred greater ones untold; and the noblest valor of the world may sleep unrecorded, like the heroes before Homer.

amongst Occurrences 2%

Then King Mark looked upon Tristram, and marvelled at his size and beauty; for Tristram stood above any man in that place, so that he looked like a hero amongst them.

outside Occurrences 2%

It seems to me quite superfluous; and when the reader finds the sword conveniently lying for the hero outside the wood, as he returns, the effect is childish and pantomimic.

about Occurrences 2%

Mother was a regular old hero about it and I dropped everything, and come off.

beneath Occurrences 2%

His clothes became threadbare, his boots worn out, his general appearance dilapidated; but he got help from a few good people, who saw the hero beneath his rags.

next Occurrences 2%

Much-suffering heroes next their honours claim, Those of less noisy and less guilty fame, Fair Virtue's silent train: supreme of these Here ever shines the godlike Socrates; He whom ungrateful Athens could expel, At all times

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