Which preposition to use with lifetime

of Occurrences 148%

Only an occasional inspiration, the result of a lifetime of thought and experience, is born in this sudden way.

in Occurrences 24%

I have known it to change the convictions of a lifetime in a moment.

to Occurrences 10%

It would be a lifetime to them, measuring time by the enjoyment it would afford them.

with Occurrences 6%

His body crouched there, the weak fingers obeying feebly the instinctive habit of a lifetime with twigs and matches.

for Occurrences 4%

But each small department of human learningeach minute branch in that departmentneeds a lifetime for the mastery of that one theme.

on Occurrences 3%

And she had for him, in the agony and the abasement of his soul, still quivering from the rack of emotion that alone could have extorted his confessionshe had for him the half-smile, tender and compassionate, that it is given to most men to see but once in a lifetime on the lips and in the eyes of the woman beloved.

over Occurrences 3%

"There are so many that a dozen savants might spend a lifetime over them, and build up a reputation as solid as the Castle of St. Angelo.

without Occurrences 2%

Many a fisherman goes through a lifetime without getting the right flies for the water on which he angles.

among Occurrences 2%

Eight volumes are devoted to the Poetical Works, and among them are included those fragments by his sister Dorothy, and others, which Wordsworth published in his lifetime among his own Poems.

as Occurrences 2%

The Marchioness of Pescara was justly celebrated during her lifetime as one of the most natural writers of Italian verse.

before Occurrences 2%

However it may be, we did succeed in crossing that open space without being seen by those who would have delighted in torturing us to death; but it was as if I lived a full lifetime before coming within the deep shadows cast by the walls on the west side, at the point decided upon by Sergeant Corney.

by Occurrences 2%

I might speak of other celebrated poets,of Lucan, of Martial, of Petronius; but I only wish to show that the great poets of antiquity, both Greek and Roman, have never been surpassed in genius, in taste, and in art, and that few were ever more honored in their lifetime by appreciating admirers,showing the advanced state of civilization which was reached in those classic countries in everything pertaining to the realm of thought and art.

than Occurrences 1%

The musician who perhaps inspired a profounder enthusiasm during his lifetime than any other ever did had been missed among men but a few years, when a little book was quietly laid upon his shrine, and he received, as it were, an apotheosis.

at Occurrences 1%

" "Well," Anna observed, smiling faintly, "even a lifetime at Court has not taught me to dissimulate.

under Occurrences 1%

It were better for the individual to follow his desire and afterward repent, than to crush his desires and repent for a lifetime under the false impression that the universe unjustly gives to another that which should have belonged to him.

amid Occurrences 1%

"There is a shorter way"; a better way; God never meant us to spend a lifetime amid lumbering machinery by means of which we haul ourselves laboriously upward; the work is His, not ours, and when I said I believed in "holiness through faith," I was not thinking of the book by that title, but of utterances made by the Church ages before its author saw the light of day.

against Occurrences 1%

The pent-up disappointment and rebellion of a whole lifetime against Fate, was expressed in the man's attitude, the agonizing eagerness which indeed seemed to be consuming him.

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