Which preposition to use with insults

to Occurrences 333%

It was an insult to an estimable lady, and an outrage on the audience, sir!"

of Occurrences 115%

But even under the insult of that "meanest word in the language," Potts sat glaring defiantly, with his half-frozen hands in his pockets.

in Occurrences 68%

"I am the owner of this garden," he enunciated, with leisurely distinctness, "and it is not my custom to permit gentlewomen to be insulted in it.

with Occurrences 34%

" These tidings gladdened the heart of Gushtásp, and he said: "If this miscreant had been slain in his expedition to the Brazen Fortress I should not now have been insulted with his claim to my throne."

on Occurrences 32%

He proposes a poem to be called "Elegiac Stanzas to a Sucking Pig," and of "Alice Fell" he writes that "if the publishing of such trash as this be not felt as an insult on the public taste, we are afraid it cannot be insulted."

from Occurrences 24%

"You see, though we are very young, we are gentlemen, and cannot brook an insult from strangers.

by Occurrences 19%

Hence they voted him the house and protection from any insult by deed or word.

over Occurrences 19%

I can insult over him with an invitation to take a day's pleasure with me to Windsor this fine May-morning.

at Occurrences 19%

The old cannibal observes the change of base, feels insulted at the implied distrust, and resolves to have satisfaction.

without Occurrences 9%

" The colonel accepted the insult without the quiver of an eyelid.

for Occurrences 8%

No, humbug, I won't let myself be insulted for nothing.

against Occurrences 7%

It's a preposterous insult against midshipman honor.

as Occurrences 6%

It cannot but be immediately considered, upon hearing this account of the soldier's condition, with how many reproaches he would receive his victuals, how roughly he would be treated, how often he would be insulted as an idler, and frowned upon as an intruder.

before Occurrences 4%

Of course no crab of spirit is going to receive an insult before his beloved and not resent it; with one painful quiver of his little legs, he sets the lady crab down, and then the two amorous lovers proceed to deadly combat.

after Occurrences 3%

" 'Your letter to me, asking me to visit you, is almost an insult after your years of silence and neglect and your refusals to assist my poor mother when she was in need.

like Occurrences 2%

Then it works on the principle of poison fight poison, eh?' "Sandy says after a minute: 'I'm the most quietest, gentle, innercent cowpuncher that ever rode the range, but I'd tell a man that it riles me to hear good bar whisky insulted like this.

into Occurrences 2%

Damophilus and Megallis were brought with every insult into the theatre.

than Occurrences 2%

Nothing can more contribute to dispirit the nation, than to protract the consequences of a war, and to make the calamity felt, when the pleasures of victory and triumph have been forgotten; we shall be inclined rather to bear oppression and insult than endeavour after redress, if we subject ourselves and our posterity to endless exactions.

towards Occurrences 2%

Sometimes she still goes out of her way to be insulting towards me, and sometimes she treats me with a sweet frankness which has something sisterly in it.

toward Occurrences 1%

Antony then had a statue of Cæsar adorned with the diadem; but two tribunes of the people, L. Caesetius Flavus and Epidius Marullus, took it away: and here Cæsar showed the real state of his feelings, for he treated the conduct of the tribunes as a personal insult toward himself.

in Occurrences 1%

Howe the slave Insults in his damnation!

during Occurrences 1%

Unfortunately, this Sibich had a remarkably beautiful wife, whom the emperor once insulted during her husband's absence.

beyond Occurrences 1%

But her courage had never forsaken her; 'she most courageously withstood all Angria's base usage, and endured his insults beyond expectation.'

through Occurrences 1%

Sir, if thou must have a fell Vengeance for this act of mine, Take my life, for it is thine; But my honour do not dare To insult through one so fair.

Which preposition to use with  insults