Which preposition to use with inscribe

on Occurrences 156%

[Footnote AE: The following barbarous distich is sometimes inscribed on the arms of the three leagues.

with Occurrences 88%

" The stone at the head of her grave was inscribed with her name, and with verses from the pen of her son Charles: HERE LIES THE BODY OF MRS.

in Occurrences 85%

Words, saith the historian Li, which have been thought worthy to be inscribed in letters of gold in the Hall of Confucius.

to Occurrences 60%

With still greater propriety I might have inscribed to you a description of some of the features of your native mountains, through which we have wandered together, in the same manner, with so much pleasure.

over Occurrences 11%

This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery If inscribed over human ashes, Is but a just tribute to the Memory of Boatswain, a Dog, Who was born at Newfoundland, May, 1803, And died at Newstead Abbey, November 18, 1808.

among Occurrences 5%

LAYARD found the word JONAH inscribed among the ruins of the old Assyrian city, but the name of the ancient mariner was unaccompanied by any mention of the whale.

for Occurrences 4%

Among the true and golden legends of the world shall that which she did be inscribed for a memorial of her.

above Occurrences 4%

Therefore let us bury our dead, and having placed the body in the tomb, let us honestly inscribe above this fragile, flower-like perished emotion, 'Here lieth lust, not love.'

as Occurrences 4%

If the numbers be counted of those who lead the life so much extolled by William Howitt,who, by the way, has left out some of its roughest traits,they will be found, even where most numerous, as in the smaller towns, never to exceed one-fourth of those inscribed as students.

beneath Occurrences 3%

"This is the house," said Chowles, halting before a two-storied wooden habitation, over the door of which was suspended the sign of the "Wheat Sheaf, with the name THOMAS FARRYNER, BAKER, inscribed beneath it.

about Occurrences 3%

At varying heights sentences were inscribed about the tube.

under Occurrences 3%

Mr. Beauclerk, with happy propriety, inscribed under that fine portrait of him, which by Lady Diana's kindness is now the property of my friend Mr. Langton, the following passage from his beloved Shakspeare: 'A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal.

at Occurrences 3%

It appears that the abbey of S. Maximin was about 120 paces from the cell of the saint at Treves, and it is therefore most probable that the writer was a monk of the Benedictine order then belonging to that foundation; but he puts his name out of doubt by the following couplet, inscribed at the end of the narrative: "Presbiter et monachus OTLOH quidam vocitatus Sancte tibi librum BONIFACII tradidit istum.

BY Occurrences 2%

TO I.K. TEFFT, ESQ., WILLIAM B. STEVENS, M.D., AND A.A. SMETS, ESQ., OF SAVANNAH; WITH A LIVELY SENSE OF THE INTEREST WHICH THEY HAVE TAKEN IN THE PUBLICATION OF THIS WORK, THIS PAGE IS INSCRIBED BY THEIR OBLIGED AND GRATEFUL FRIEND, THADDEUS MASON HARRIS.

from Occurrences 2%

On Brent Tor is a church, in which is appositely inscribed from Scripture, "Upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."

below Occurrences 1%

The Greek monogram of the Virgin is inscribed below the throne.

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