Which preposition to use with invites

to Occurrences 497%

In Paris the wives of ambassadors and ministers are always invited to all official banquets.)

into Occurrences 28%

And even when Hannibal learned that his brother was in Italy, and had advanced as far as Placentia, he was obliged to pause for further intelligence before he himself commenced active operations, as he could not tell whether his brother might not be invited into Etruria, to aid the party there that was disaffected to Rome, or whether he would march down by the Adriatic Sea.

for Occurrences 24%

Guests invited for the evening are, however, generally considered at liberty to arrive whenever it will best suit themselves,usually between nine and twelve, unless earlier hours are specifically named.

in Occurrences 24%

The woods across the river were bright patches of reds and yellows, pleasant and inviting in the sunlight.

from Occurrences 15%

THE CONGRESS CONSTITUTION The belated report of the Congress Constitution Committee has now been published for general information and opinion has been invited from all public bodies in order to assist the deliberations of the All India Congress Committee.

on Occurrences 15%

Lady Moseley, when she retired to the drawing-room after dinner, commenced a recital of the ceremony and company to be invited on the occasion.

with Occurrences 13%

But when the world Is clad in midnight's raven-coloured robe, 'Mid hollow charnel let me watch the flame Of taper dim, shedding a livid glare O'er the wan heaps, while airy voices talk Along the glimmering walls, or ghostly shape, At distance seen, invites with beckoning hand,

as Occurrences 10%

" Details as to whom to invite as referee and time-keeper were also arranged.

at Occurrences 9%

At a big dinner at Prince Bismarck's the guests were invited at six, and at eight-thirty every one had gone.

about Occurrences 5%

Even that miserable place had something cheerful and inviting about it.

than Occurrences 5%

It seems that our minds had evidently been running on a different subject than provisions while we were loitering in Sheridan, and we found ourselves, with a two hundred and fifty mile march ahead of us, without anything more inviting than ordinary army rations.

over Occurrences 3%

"If a fellow is too much on the medical report for trouble with his teeth, then it makes the surgeons look his mouth over with all the more caution, and in the end a fellow may get dropped from the brigade just because he has invited over zeal from the dentist.

before Occurrences 3%

I was invited before the committee on the judiciary.

during Occurrences 2%

A good deal of dissatisfaction is expressed with the state of the cellars to which people have been invited during the raids.

within Occurrences 2%

We were immediately invited within the bar, whence we had a fair view of all that passed.

among Occurrences 1%

We were invited among them, and they treated us with ale, as we did not drink cosmos.

against Occurrences 1%

I here subjoin for their consideration, an imaginary extract of the sort which, by their eager patronage of the "Eclipse of Faith," they are inviting against themselves.

around Occurrences 1%

What your honourable father had done to him I know not, but I met him just coming from Berkeley Square, and all the charms he had lately invited around him had suddenly departed, he was a different man, and that day, in a fit, I suppose, of spleen, he quits London, and the next time I hear of him he is in Geneva: that noble Lord is one of the strangest creatures I ever had the honour to know.

by Occurrences 1%

Should the Senate approve of principle of the treaty, an amendment in this respect is deemed advisable; and it will be well to invite by another amendment the protection of other nations, by expressly offering them in the treaty what is now offered by implication onlythe same advantages which we propose for ourselves on the same conditions upon which we shall have acquired them.

through Occurrences 1%

s already been twice expelled from Nicaragua, has invited through the public newspapers American citizens to emigrate to that Republic, and has designated Mobile as the place of rendezvous and departure and San Juan del Norte as the port to which they are bound.

after Occurrences 1%

These we invited after meeting to take coffee with us, about thirty persons, all serious.

until Occurrences 1%

We did not mean to invite until Wednesday; on Tuesday Ruth came home and told us that Olivia and Adelaide Marchbanks were getting up a Halloween themselves, and that the Haddens were asked already; and that Lily and Reba were in transports because they were to be allowed to go.

unto Occurrences 1%

Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to-morrow am I invited unto her also with the king. 13.

across Occurrences 1%

Children she always eyed with strange wistfulness, as if she longed to kiss them, but didn't know how; yet no child was ever invited across her threshold, for the yellow cur hated to be played with, and children always torment kittens.

amongst Occurrences 1%

convivio, much discontented that he was not invited amongst the rest, expostulating the matter, in a long epistle, with Aristenetus their host.

Which preposition to use with  invites