Which preposition to use with laboring

of Occurrences 963%

Thus Thoreau, when he, "by surveying, carpentry and day-labor of various other kinds," had earned $13.34, was doing income-work, the work by which he had to live.

in Occurrences 622%

PUNCHINELLO, pondering over the vast sums that have been forwarded to Cuba, in aid of the insurrectionary movements there, and struck with the disadvantages under which the promoters of liberty labor in that sunny isle, blesses his stars that, thanks to the enterprise of Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY, he can raise a Revolution in New York City, at any time, for ten cents.

for Occurrences 300%

I know that there are a good many crazy-headed people in pantaloons as well as petticoats, who go about laboring for the 'emancipation of women,' as if the heavens and earth were coming together.

under Occurrences 179%

There are one or two points about Protection which a wayfaring man, even if people labor under the impression that he is a fool, can understand.

with Occurrences 172%

My breast was laboring with the fever of an impulse poured into me, more than I could contain.

on Occurrences 114%

They would do an immensity of labor on their returnless journey to the ocean.

at Occurrences 94%

Then he renewed his labors at the courthouse of the older county from which Brummell was formed in 1750, and through many fragmentary, evil-odored and unindexed volumes indefatigably pursued the family's fortune back to the immigration of its American progenitor in 1619,and, by the happiest fatality, upon the same Bona Nova which enabled the first American Musgrave to grace the Colony of Virginia with his presence.

to Occurrences 75%

If they were to do this, and confine their scientific labors to observations of the decidedly mean altitude of the Sun, they would probably suffer more, in a given time, than any previous party of learned men, and thus accomplish their object much better than by deliberately allowing themselves to be snowed up on Mount Washington.

as Occurrences 60%

Born with the pregnancy, its life is terminated with the pregnancy, for it is expelled in labor as the after-birth.

by Occurrences 48%

So firmly was Bernard convinced that God had sustained his labors by miracles.

from Occurrences 43%

How different is this slave-labor from the craft-work of mediaeval times, when, under the protection of the guilds, manual labor became exalted to an artistic rank, and the workers at the loom, the metal-workers, the wood-carvers, the tapestry-weavers, and the workers in pottery and glass produced objects whose beauty has never been either equalled or surpassed.

among Occurrences 40%

So great and so successful were his labors among the native heathen, and so eminent were his piety and his self-denying charity, that he has been well named the 'Prince of Missionaries' and 'the Great Apostle of the Indians.'

than Occurrences 18%

Next to Aristotle and Varro, Cicero was the most learned man of antiquity, but performed more varied labors than either, since he was not only great as a writer and speaker, but also as a statesman, being the most conspicuous man in Rome after Pompey and Caesar.

into Occurrences 16%

But perhaps I am dwelling too long on the general principle that people of every age, and children in particular, need, and must have amusements, whether they are of a productive kind or not; and that it is very far from being sufficient, were it either practicable or desirable, to turn all study and labor into amusement.

without Occurrences 15%

On that account the captain-major wished himself in person to discover the river up to its head, to see whence could come those trees which they found there dry, but the masters said this would be a labor without profit, and that they ought to go out of the river and make for the country which they wished to seek, and they would find it.

through Occurrences 13%

Here was a horse who could gallop tirelessly under him all day and labor through the mountains, bearing him as lightly as the cattle ponies bore ordinary men.

like Occurrences 12%

Thus they fought for nigh a half an hour, until the ground was all plowed up with the digging of their heels, and their breathing grew labored like the ox in the furrow.

over Occurrences 9%

Sleepy was the only one that did not want to go, and he insisted that he had learned all that was necessary for his purpose in life; that he simply could not endure the thought of laboring over books any longer.

during Occurrences 9%

His labor during these years and his marvelous freshness and youthfulness of feeling are best understood by a glance at the contents of his complete works.

between Occurrences 8%

Again, as with capital, it is when we turn to the apportionment of labor between different employments that both economic law and social ideal make their appearance.

throughout Occurrences 7%

It was downright hard work to handle shovel and pick hour after hour under the burning rays of the summer sun; but no fellow cared to show himself indolent after having had such rare good fortune, and we petitioned the commandant to let us continue the labor throughout the night, to the end that it might the sooner be performed.

after Occurrences 6%

But it is as the "liberator" of the Roman Catholic population of Ireland in the great emancipation struggle,triumphantly concluded as early as 1829,and the incessant labors after that for the enlargement of Irish conditions, that O'Connell will be remembered.

until Occurrences 6%

He saw the field hand driven forth at dawn to labor until dark.

against Occurrences 5%

He is an enemy to his country who sets capital against labor or labor against capital.

amongst Occurrences 4%

At the entreaty of his friends he settled at Brussels, where there was a wide field for labor amongst the poorest of the Roman Catholics, who speak only Flemish.

Which preposition to use with  laboring