Which preposition to use with invalid

for Occurrences 27%

The rest had perished or were invalided for the time, from the toil of marches, incessant fighting, and the heat of the climate.

in Occurrences 21%

Then an old-fashioned porticoed mansion came into view, and on signal from the driver a posse of colored servants came trooping out noisily to carry the invalid in.

from Occurrences 15%

A short distance beyond the village of Daroshp are some mineral springs that are visited by invalids from Badakshan.

with Occurrences 13%

Brown bread has, of late years, become very popular; and many physicians have recommended it to invalids with weak digestions with great success.

of Occurrences 12%

Moreover, while the Thirty-second Foot was quartered at Lucknow, the wives, families, and invalids of the regiment were living at Cawnpore.

on Occurrences 11%

[Footnote 2: The invalid on behalf of whom the invocation is recited.]

to Occurrences 11%

Thereafter Rosa had her invalid to herself, Jones only reappearing at night, to keep the vigils of the dark.

at Occurrences 9%

" "You speak of her being an invalid at night," I replied.

as Occurrences 7%

FOWLS AS FOOD.Brillat Savarin, pre-eminent in gastronomic taste, says that he believes the whole gallinaceous family was made to enrich our larders and furnish our tables; for, from the quail to the turkey, he avers their flesh is a light aliment, full of flavour, and fitted equally well for the invalid as for the man of robust health.

during Occurrences 7%

Out of 10,000 men enlisted in their twenty-first year, 718 will be invalided during the first quinquennial period, or before they pass their twenty-fifth year, 539 in the second, 673 in the third, and 854 in the fourth,making 2,784, or more than one-quarter of the whole, discharged for disability or chronic ailment, before they complete their twenty years of military service and their forty years of life.

than Occurrences 6%

Nothing is more disagreeable to an invalid than smoked food.

by Occurrences 5%

Eleseus was the man for this sort of work; he was bright and quick, and encouraged the invalid by assuring him that things were all right; the two had got on well together, even to jesting at times.

like Occurrences 4%

He was a most agreeable and intelligent young fellow, but invalided like myself through the poisonous miasma of the south.

without Occurrences 3%

" Helen glanced at Hoffman, feeling that if he were not already engaged by them, he would devote himself to the invalid without any thought of payment.

against Occurrences 3%

The truth is, that so long as overseers, drivers, and others, are entrusted with the use of arbitrary power, and so long as Negro-evidence is invalid against the white oppressor, and so long as human nature continues to be what it is, no order from the Master for the better personal treatment of the Slave will or can be obeyed.

into Occurrences 1%

He could not afford to take the invalid into his house for nothing; but his daughters would look after their grandmother and she should have good medical care as well, if she came on a small allowance.

everywherelike Occurrences 1%

" "On the other hand," returned Mr. Tutt, "the law is settled that a marriage valid when made is valid everywhere; and conversely, if invalid where made is invalid everywherelike our Mongolian case.

off Occurrences 1%

No sooner was the anguish concerning the invalids off Kate's, Olympia's, and Rosa's minds, than new perplexities beset them.

beneath Occurrences 1%

No. 17, Richardson himself is moping along like an invalid beneath the trees, and avoiding the triflers.

out Occurrences 1%

When the War began he joined the German army, fought in the Masurian operations, was invalided out of the army at the beginning of 1915, and thereupon became correspondent in Constantinople of the Kölnische Zeitung, in which capacity he acted until the end of 1916, when his too great truthfulness proved distasteful to his employers and he had to give up his place.

amongst Occurrences 1%

Having distributed the invalids amongst these fortresses or in the houses of the natives in the neighbourhood, the Adelantado left for Santo Domingo, collecting tribute from the caciques he encountered on his way.

through Occurrences 1%

"Several people have maintained that her work was one of mesmerism; and when once she was asked to visit an out patient, she earnestly implored the Lord not to heal this invalid through her means if she employed mesmerism; but if not, to permit recovery.

throughout Occurrences 1%

I was an invalid throughout the whole of that winter, and only gradually during the spring of 1916 was able to pull myself back to an old shadow of my former vigour and energy.

among Occurrences 1%

Now Tokay we have heard of, and Torbay, which we take to be the true male spelling of the place, but somewhere we fancy it to be on "Devon's leafy shores," where we heartily wish the kindly breezes may restore all that is invalid among you.

after Occurrences 1%

'And how is my little fellow-soldier?' asked Mr. Upton, as he came in one day for his first visit to the little invalid after being downstairs.

Which preposition to use with  invalid