Which preposition to use with intelligent

of Occurrences 47%

Their son, the Vicomte de Sartiges, has followed in his father's footsteps, and is one of the most serious and intelligent of the young diplomatists.

than Occurrences 29%

They are honest, simple, and kind, and more intelligent than the Indians living farther north, in the colder regions.

as Occurrences 13%

But if you took the trouble to get to know a Droff, you would find that, in spite of their crude manner of speech, they are, as a whole, equally as intelligent as the Gilligoggs, except that they express their intelligence in a different way.

in Occurrences 11%

No wonder wolves are intelligent in avoiding every trap and in hunting together to outwit some fleet-footed quarry with unbelievable cunning.

for Occurrences 4%

The children were small, but they lived in Boston, and were, of course, as became Boston children, preternaturally intelligent for their years.

among Occurrences 4%

The majority of people, even the most intelligent among those who habitually travel, obtain their conceptions of speed from the figures of the time-table, forgetting that in nearly every instance considerable portions of the route must be traversed at much more than the average speed required to cover the total distance in the schedule time.

with Occurrences 2%

Kirghizes who do not look very intelligent with their depressed heads, their prognathous jaws stuck well out in front, their little beards, flat Cossack noses and very brown skins.

beyond Occurrences 2%

Dáráb was now sent to school, and he soon excelled his master, who continually said to the washerman: "Thy son is of wonderful capacity, acute and intelligent beyond his years, of an enlarged understanding, and will be at least the minister of a king."

from Occurrences 2%

That this must necessarily be the case, will be admitted by the reader who understands what has been already discussed, and is fully demonstrated by Plato in the Parmenides, as will be evident to the intelligent from the notes on that Dialogue.

on Occurrences 2%

As Aristotle remarks, genius is allied to melancholy; and people of very cheerful disposition are only intelligent on the surface.

amongst Occurrences 1%

The intelligent amongst them are moved by the wish to see the objects which the great man habitually had before his eyes; and by a strange illusion, these produce the mistaken notion that with the objects they are bringing back the man himself, or that something of him must cling to them.

along Occurrences 1%

It is curiously true that great aggregations of individuals and organized bodies are apt to be less far-sighted, less moral, less intelligent along certain lines than the individual citizen; or at least that their standards are lower; a principle which is illustrated by the fact that we have got over settling disputes between individuals by the strong hand, but not yet between nations.

about Occurrences 1%

They study together, to become decently intelligent about some of the real business of the kingdom of God, and how the church proposes to transact that business.

at Occurrences 1%

"I wonder if anybody ever does say anything intelligent at such entertainments.

after Occurrences 1%

But rarely is the mind so intelligent after the golden age of its innocence.

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