Which preposition to use with keenness

of Occurrences 130%

The Assembly consisted of men, who appeared to me equally remarkable for keenness of intellect and elegance of manners.

in Occurrences 10%

It was not to be supposed that such a man as Isidore Bamberger had trusted only to his own keenness in collecting evidence, or to a few pencilled notes as a substitute for the principal witness himself, when an accident might happen at any moment to a man who led such a life.

for Occurrences 8%

She pursued this, as she pursued every other amusement which she took up, with great keenness for a while, so much so as to provoke earnest remonstrances from her mother, whose letters were commonly dictated by Mercy's reports and suggestions.

to Occurrences 6%

Art thou afraid to face the beams of light?" But scarcely from his lips these words had past, Ere, fell'd to earth, he groaning breathed his last; Unseen he perish'd, fate decreed the blow, To add fresh keenness to a parent's woe.

on Occurrences 4%

It turned with the same jealous keenness on the face of the next it encountered, and by the time the steady and well balanced form was lost in the crowd, that quick and glowing eye had gleamed, in the same rapid and uneasy manner, on twenty others.

with Occurrences 3%

Perhaps there was compensation for the fewness of the cases you had to observe in the keenness with which you were able to observe them.

about Occurrences 2%

Thishe told me at last, as if every word he let out was worth a ransom, that he was a parcels office clerk in the North Eastern Railway Station at Hull, and that since the 13th of May until the day before yesterday he'd been away in the North of Scotland on his holidaysbeen home to his people, in facthe is a Scotsman, which, of course, accounts for his keenness about the money.

at Occurrences 2%

I felt it with intense, with unpleasant, with irritating keenness at this moment.

without Occurrences 1%

But she never liked the smooth red lips, nor the over-pointed nose, which had something of the falcon's keenness without its nobility.

by Occurrences 1%

The pursuit was urged through the night with great keenness by woodsmen capable of following a trail at all times.

from Occurrences 1%

It is possible, too, that the zest with which she indulged herself may have derived additional keenness from the knowledge that her ill-wishers found in it pretext for misconstruction and calumny; and that, being conscious of entire purity in thought, word, and deed, she looked on it as due to her own character to show that she set all such detraction and detractors at defiance.

like Occurrences 1%

There was an exultance about his bearing and a keenness like that of a hunting animal catching the fresh scent of game.

off Occurrences 1%

And as a last example of the present hysterical disposition to scrap things before they have been fairly tried is the outcry against examinations, which has done so much to take the keenness off the edge of school work in the last few years.

Which preposition to use with  keenness