Which preposition to use with lagging

behind Occurrences 35%

But in English, unless simplified spelling is introduced, the time must soon come when reproduction must lag behind recognition.

in Occurrences 10%

But in general, although I am curious in the earlier chapters of learning, I lag in the inner windings.

for Occurrences 5%

"Go on, go on; what are you lagging for?" whispered Alice, as Eva's pace faltered here.

of Occurrences 5%

The young, fair Spring, is tripping o'er the Earth, With feet that ne'er can know the lag of age; The Earth, her lover, conscious of her worth, Flings down all his rich treasures to engage That blushing wanderer: but she journeys forth Heedless of all his offerings.

into Occurrences 1%

So we, if we would have the obedience of our vocabularies, dare not lag into desultory attention to either words when disjoined or words as potentially combined into the larger units of thought and feeling.

near Occurrences 1%

Through the veil a sound crept, a sound he knew well by this time, secret footfalls in the hall, faltering, retreating, loitering returning to lag near the door.

on Occurrences 1%

Lovesick people e'en will smile, In spite of cares, and for the while Sadness will not lag on: Tic dolereux will lose its power On facial nerves for half an hour, Now Listen plays Moll Flaggon.

over Occurrences 1%

"Slow her!" commanded the Master into the engine-room phone, and began compensating with the helicopters, as Nissr lagged over the crowded city.

to Occurrences 1%

The landlord hesitated, looked around him, seemed about to speak, smiled, and said, in his soft, solemn voice, feeling his way word by word through the unfamiliar language: "Ah lag to teg you apar'.

until Occurrences 1%

New York lagged until 1799, and then provided freedom for the after-born only at twenty-eight and twenty-five years for males and females respectively; but a further act of 1817 set the Fourth of July in 1827 as a time for the emancipation for all remaining slaves in the state.

across Occurrences 1%

The dull report of a musket lagged across the water.

on Occurrences 1%

85 Now at each tack our little fleet grows less; And like maim'd fowl, swim lagging on the main:

after Occurrences 1%

If you are willing to follow the most inspired writers, in their most inspired moods, up into the heights whither the divine afflatus bore them, you will mount above the cloud-level, and leave to those who lag after feebler guides on the lower ranges of truth, the chill mists that eat into the soul, while you rejoice in the light.

as Occurrences 1%

It is as dull and as lagging as themselves you would be maybe, and the world to be different and the moon to change its courses with the sun.

by Occurrences 1%

And whosoever follows him in obedience, finds happiness at the end of the joyous pathway; but whosoever, through pride or selfishness, lags by the wayside, comes to lament his folly and to expiate his cowardice in an everlasting life of tedium and sorrow!

Which preposition to use with  lagging