Which preposition to use with industrious

in Occurrences 35%

He was patient, however, and industrious in the collection of evidence against himself.

as Occurrences 13%

The misconception was shared by no less a man than the late Benjamin Jowett, the well-known master of Balliol College, Oxford, who, in one of his published "Letters," says: "I sometimes think that we platonists and idealists are not half so industrious as those repulsive people who only 'believe what they can hold in their hand,' Bain, H. Spencer, etc., who are the very Tuppers of philosophy."

than Occurrences 10%

The whole city has a brisk, active air, and the workmen appear both more skilful and more industrious than in the other parts of Asia Minor.

of Occurrences 6%

Not so did Abdul Hamid; the Turkey that he sought to establish was merely to be strong because he had battered into a blood-stained pulp the most progressive and the most industrious of the alien peoples over whom he ruled.

by Occurrences 2%

Daggett was an instance of what, we fear, many thousands resembling him might be found, up and down the land, of a man energetic by temperament, industrious by habit, and even moderate in his views, but whose whole existence is concentrated in the accumulation of property.

on Occurrences 2%

I mean to be very industrious on other accounts this summer, so I hope nothing will go very ill with me or mine.

at Occurrences 2%

Perhaps it was because she was the pessimistthe quite cheerful pessimistof the family, that she was by far the cleverest and most industrious at the housework.

to Occurrences 1%

Her death was to me a great sorrow, for she was a most excellent wife, industrious to a degree.

from Occurrences 1%

These pastoral and hunting people, frugal from necessity, brave from exposure, industrious from the difficulty of subsisting in a dry and barren country, for the most sort were just such a race as furnished a noble material for the foundation of a great empire.

like Occurrences 1%

Declan was wise like a serpent and gentle like a dove and industrious like the bee, for as the bee gathers honey and avoids the poisonous herbs so did Declan, for he gathered the sweet sap of grace and Holy Scripture till he was filled therewith.

over Occurrences 1%

He reminded her painfully of an old German engraving she had seen in Mrs. Buxton's portfolio, called, "Pleasure digging a Grave;" Pleasure being represented by a ghastly figure of a young man, eagerly industrious over his dismal work.

among Occurrences 1%

Most industrious among the hand-fishers I remarked a small, spare man, who, under the careful supervision of a buxom young wife in a "loud" tartan silk, baited no hook nor broke water with his lead until he had first folded and put carefully away between the handle and lid of the family prog-basket his tight little black frock-coat, and passed his small legs through the tough creases of a pair of stout blue "Denim" overalls.

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