Which preposition to use with ingratitude

of Occurrences 62%

He could see the sisters fairly fighting for the possession of the "Shoreville Herald" to-morrow evening, as they always scrambled each for the first glance at the only copy taken at the Home, and he could hear one reading his name aloudreading of the black ingratitude of their brother member.

to Occurrences 32%

And Julia overheard Silvia from a window talk with Protheus, and reproach him for forsaking his own true lady, and for his ingratitude to his friend Valentine: and then Silvia left the window, not choosing to listen to his music and his fine speeches; for she was a faithful lady to her banished Valentine, and abhorred the ungenerous conduct of his false friend Protheus.

in Occurrences 22%

In this manner she went on talking with a pretty lady-like childishness, till finding herself unable to make out the whole, and vext at her own ingratitude in destroying such sweet and loving words, as she called them, she wrote a much kinder letter to Protheus than she had ever done before.

towards Occurrences 8%

The shyness you shewed towards her while you were very young, and the forced civility you seemed to affect as you grew older, always appeared like ingratitude towards her who had done so much for you.

for Occurrences 6%

The chants are really prayers to God for rain, for forgiveness of sins and for absolution from ingratitude for former bounties.

by Occurrences 4%

I walked on a little in all the pride of an Evangelical peacock, when of a sudden my old aunt's kindness crossed me,the sum it was to her; the pleasure she had a right to expect that Inot the old impostorshould take in eating her cake; the cursed ingratitude by which, under the color of a Christian virtue, I had frustrated her cherished purpose.

from Occurrences 4%

It is painful to think that he met with much ingratitude from persons both in high and low rank: but such was his temper, such his knowledge of 'base mankind[1002],' that, as if he had expected no other return, his mind was never soured, and he retained his good-humour and benevolence to the last.

toward Occurrences 3%

Wherefore, applying this to any impious discourse with which to profane God's blessed name, with this to violate His holy commands, with this to unhallow His sacred ordinance, with this to offer dishonour and indignity to Him, is a most unnatural abuse, a horrid ingratitude toward Him.

at Occurrences 2%

But you know, there is always a little germ of ingratitude at the bottom of a man's heart.

as Occurrences 2%

The South lay battered and bruised, and pros trate in blood, the "Niobe of nations," as sad a victim of ingratitude as King Lear.

among Occurrences 2%

"Yes, Gar'ner has got something to do, beside sealing," he resumed of himself, when his regret at the prevalence of ingratitude among men had exhausted itself.

about Occurrences 1%

"There's no ingratitude about it," cried Van.

on Occurrences 1%

The illustrious company of great minds which surrounded the throne of Louis XIV., and had so much to do with the lasting splendor of his reign, had no reason to complain of ingratitude on the part of its successors; but, from the pedestal to which they raised it, it exercised no potent influence upon new thought and new passions.

out Occurrences 1%

I should like to hear from your ingratitude out of what money you gained them.

than Occurrences 1%

Did Narses experience blacker ingratitude than I?

Which preposition to use with  ingratitude