Which preposition to use with jargon

of Occurrences 68%

" Pulz muttered some of the jargon of alchemy.

with Occurrences 5%

Modern education not only corrupts the heart of our youth, by the rigid slavery to which it condemns them, it also undermines their reason, by the unintelligible jargon with which they are overwhelmed in the first instance, and the little attention, that is given to the accommodating their pursuits to their capacities in the second.

about Occurrences 4%

How is it possible to extort a meaning from all this jargon about 'devil's seats,' 'death's-head,' and 'bishop's hostel'?" "I confess," replied Legrand, "that the matter still wears a serious aspect, when regarded with a casual glance.

as Occurrences 4%

And the names which recall Elizabeth and whose syllables are a part of our mother tongue, are obliterated by such jargon as these.

in Occurrences 3%

The guests, though kind and polite to her, treated her as a child, and Patty was glad of this, for she felt sure she never could talk or understand the artistic jargon in which they were conversing.

to Occurrences 3%

In place of these, a lean, bilious-looking fellow, with his pockets full of hand-bills, was haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens electionsmembers of congresslibertyBunker's Hillheroes of seventy-sixand other words, which were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle.

into Occurrences 2%

It throws its jargon into the sweetest harmony.

through Occurrences 1%

O, could I share without champagne Or muscadel, your frolic; The glad delirium of your joy, Your fun unapostolic; Your drunken jargon through the fields, Your bobolinkish gabble, Your fine Anacreontic glee, Your tipsy reveller's babble!

from Occurrences 1%

This list, and others from different years, we give in the present edition, though we have rejected the barbarous jargon from the speeches themselves.

by Occurrences 1%

Shakespeare could hardly have picked up his conveyancer's jargon by hanging round the courts of law; and we find,to return to the first objection,that, in his early plays, written just after he arrived in London, he uses this peculiar phraseology just as freely and with as exact a knowledge as he displayed in after years, when (on the supposition in question) he must have become much more familiar with it.

for Occurrences 1%

After listening to the horrible jargon for some time, I could easily believe the story which poor William Maginn used to tell with such unction, of the origin of the Welsh language.

than Occurrences 1%

Is it not time that the man in the street, verily, I believe, less deluded by diplomatic jargon than his betters, less the slave of an obsolete phraseology, insisted that the experts in the high places acquired some sense of the reality of things, of proportion, some sense of figures, a little knowledge of industrial history, of the real processes of human cooperation?

Which preposition to use with  jargon