Which preposition to use with holdings

of Occurrences 120%

Paris, reasons against holding of Parliament in; gaiety of, during exposition; return of the Parliament to.

in Occurrences 26%

Inheritor of large holdings in Eastern cotton-mill stock, he had returned from abroad on the death of his father, to look into this source of his very ample income.

on Occurrences 11%

"I'm a-holding on," he observed gruffly at last, as the other continued to blink at him with red eyes and say nothing.

to Occurrences 7%

They found the latter holding to a guy rope, Andy's head was spinning.

as Occurrences 6%

The law of Louisiana makes slaves real estate, prohibiting the holder, if he be also a land holder, to separate them from the soil.[C] If it has power to prohibit the sale without the soil, it can prohibit the sale with it; and if it can prohibit the sale as property, it can prohibit the holding as property.

by Occurrences 4%

Sometimes it is an older woman that goes by, with a child at the breast, and one or two holding by the skirt of her tattered gown, and perhaps one or two more limping after, as she crawls along the pavement, gazing languidly from side to side among the heedless crowd, as if giving her last look round the world for help, without knowing where to get it, and without heart to ask for it.

at Occurrences 4%

The priests were glad to sell their extensive holdings at Papenoo, and the energetic Russo-French count said that he would bring Slav families from Europe to populate and develop it.

from Occurrences 4%

When we speak of an aquarium, we mean a vessel holding from eight to thirty gallons of water.

for Occurrences 4%

Describing the enormous losses on both sides in Poland, a neutral observer, Mr. Stanley Washburn, said in the American Review of Reviews: "The German program contemplated taking both Warsaw and Ivangorod and the holding for the winter of the line between the two formed by the Vistula.

over Occurrences 2%

14 Holding over all Kings supremacy 15 and royalty and empire 16 may he attain to gray hairs 17 and old age!

with Occurrences 1%

It grew rapidly, the population being composed chiefly of actual settlers who had taken holdings with the purpose of cultivating them, and of building homes thereon.

between Occurrences 1%

Two men squat against the wall on either side, surrounded by their adherents, each holding between his knees a long-stemmed pipe built somewhat on the German fashion.

like Occurrences 1%

But one of the hard and fast conditions is that every individual stockholder shall hang on to his or her holdings like grim death.

out Occurrences 1%

It is the mute glance of an eye, the holding out of a hand.

throughout Occurrences 1%

Even the most cursory examination of large holdings throughout the West will refute the contention that the intelligent self-interest of large owners results promptly and directly in the making of homes.

under Occurrences 1%

"Your principal dangerat least, I mean difficultyis this: that the Louisianais themselves, some in pure lawlessness, some through loss of office, some in a vague hope of preserving the old condition of things, will not only hold off from all participation in your government, but will make all sympathy with it, all advocacy of its principles, and especially all office-holding under it, odiousdisreputableinfamous.

along Occurrences 1%

She had never before possessed a comprehensive idea of the various timber holdings along the west shore of Roaring Lake, since it had not been a matter of particular interest to her.

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