Which preposition to use with imaginations

of Occurrences 488%

In the Church of God, the spiritual imagination of man reached its highest field of energy, and has brought forth its most triumphant works.

in Occurrences 109%

It was very descriptive, with bells, cannon, hurrahs, and a nuptial hymnrather difficult to render on a pianobut there was a certain amount of imagination in the composition.

with Occurrences 100%

The rebels had been busy spreading insidious perversions of the belated Quebec Act, poisoning the minds of the habitants against the British government, and filling their imaginations with all sorts of terrifying doubts.

to Occurrences 46%

Most of our dreams are then nothing more than sports of the fancy, and derive their origin chiefly from external impressions; almost every thing we see and hear, when awake, leads our imagination to collateral notions or representations, which, in a manner, spontaneously, and without the least effort, associate with external sensations.

by Occurrences 38%

And Dr. Hartley, who explains all the phenomena of the imagination by his theory of vibrations and associations, says, that dreams are nothing but the imaginations or reveries of sleeping men, and that they are deducible from three causesviz, the impressions and ideas lately received, and particularly those of the preceding day, the state of the body, more especially of the stomach and brain, and association.

AS Occurrences 37%

IMAGINATION AS AN ENDOCRINE GIFT That brings us to the consideration of imagination as influenced by the endocrines.

for Occurrences 34%

It does not lessen the horror of darkness that fear makes use of the imagination for its agencies.

than Occurrences 29%

No one ever more persistently converted the incidents of travel into poetic material; but sometimes in doing so he borrowed more largely from his imagination than his memory, as in the description of the seraglio, of which there is reason to doubt his having seen more than the entrance.

at Occurrences 26%

I distinguished the very words in the successive tones, which the school-boys and puerile imaginations at Chiswick used to combine with them.

into Occurrences 17%

The air seemed full of the hiss and screaming of shot, each one of which, when it struck the galleon, was magnified by our hero's imagination into ten times its magnitude from the crash which it delivered and from the cloud of splinters it would cast up into the moonlight.

on Occurrences 16%

The truth of infinite value he teaches is "realism,"the doctrine that all truth and beauty are to be attained by a reverent and faithful study of nature, and not, as a reviewer expresses it, "by substituting vague forms, bred by imagination on the mists of feeling, in place of definite, substantial reality.

like Occurrences 14%

And soon we were to meet the Susquehannabeautiful, broad-bosomed name, that has always haunted my imagination like the name of some beautiful savage princessLa belle sauvage.

from Occurrences 12%

To look at the picture, which had been faintly showing in my imagination from time to time, the eyes, more anxious than ever, looking at me from out the silent air?

without Occurrences 7%

There is no medium which can be presented to the imagination without offence.

through Occurrences 5%

Then he would follow her, he said, in imagination through the long hall, seeing himself stealing behind her, just touching her hand, wistfully hoping that she might turn to him againand yet fearing.

during Occurrences 4%

I must further acquaint you, Sir, that one of the most eminent Pens in Grub-street is now employed in Writing the Dream of this miraculous Sleeper, which I hear will be of a more than ordinary Length, as it must contain all the Particulars that are supposed to have passed in his Imagination during so long a Sleep.

among Occurrences 4%

In a word, captain Willoughby, in the eyes of a few unquiet and bloated imaginations among his people, was obnoxious to the imputation of pride; and this because he saw and felt the consequences of education, habits, manners, opinions and sentiments that were hidden from those who not only had no perception of their existence, but who had no knowledge whatever of the qualities that brought them into being.

over Occurrences 4%

The degree of this distemper will be in proportion to the prevalence of imagination over reason, and, according to this proportion, amount to more or less of the whimsical; but when reason shall become, as it were, extinct, and imagination govern alone, then the distemper will be madness under the wildest and most fantastic modes.

about Occurrences 3%

I'le sooner teach a Mare the old measures, than teach her any thing belonging to the function; she's afraid to lie with her self, if she have but any masculine imaginations about her; I know when we are married, I must ravish her.

across Occurrences 2%

Like sudden snow on a summer meadow, a white silence fell from his imagination across that fiddling, jigging, gleaming atmosphere, and everywhere the dead sat around him, watching in a trance strange antics of the grimacing dead.

beyond Occurrences 2%

His art is the art of the understanding only; and to this the masters of the golden age added radiance, sublimity, grace, passionqualities of the imagination beyond the scope of men like Ghirlandajo.

under Occurrences 2%

The general design of the following sheets is to inlist Imagination under the banner of Science, and to lead her votaries from the looser analogies, which dress out the imagery of poetry, to the stricter ones, which form the ratiocination of philosophy.

towards Occurrences 1%

Keats felt this passage was inspired, and in a letter to Taylor in January 1818 he says, "When I wrote it, it was a regular stepping of the Imagination towards a truth.

unto Occurrences 1%

Generally thus much we may conclude of melancholy; that it is [2604]most pleasant at first, I say, mentis gratissimus error, [2605]a most delightsome humour, to be alone, dwell alone, walk alone, meditate, lie in bed whole days, dreaming awake as it were, and frame a thousand fantastical imaginations unto themselves.

above Occurrences 1%

Also in the prophet's imagination above this carnage rises Jerusalem, an impregnable fortress for the people of Israel, holy and no longer polluted by the presence of heathen invaders.

Which preposition to use with  imaginations