Which preposition to use with longings

for Occurrences 396%

But if the one thing that rules his dreams is the longing for spiritual powerthe thought of impressing God upon his generation, and leading men to a clearer view of life and dutyhe is a born minister of the Spirit, and to the spirit of the sons of men.

of Occurrences 113%

Recognizing the unsatisfiable longings of my Scotch Highland instincts, he threw out some hints concerning Bloody Cañon, and advised me to explore it.

after Occurrences 57%

Do the stars in their courses lay limitations on free will? There are in man two forces working: a human longing after God, and, in response, God inly working in the soul.

in Occurrences 48%

Ah, my soul, for such a wonder, Wilt thou not undo the door?" Evadne sang the words softly in the twilight: sang them with a great note of longing in her pleading voice.

to Occurrences 15%

A cup from that rhinoceros's horn May help my longing to subdue.

on Occurrences 9%

They were being killed in the mills, while she wasted her thoughts and longings on people who would laugh if they knew of her presumptuous devotion.

at Occurrences 8%

" Antonio looked amazed, but, yielding to a natural curiosity, he gazed a moment with a longing at the prize.

with Occurrences 4%

Now ever since that spring night on the shore he had been thinking of the sea and longing with all his might to cross it and see foreign lands for himself.

towards Occurrences 4%

As the season advanced, our heroine began to look with longings towards the country.

than Occurrences 3%

When he finished he always looked up for more, and Miss Laura would shake her head and say "No, Billy; better longing than loathing.

into Occurrences 3%

They petitioned the General Assembly of their church on the matter, and solicited its advice as to whether "they ought to renounce the object of missions as visionary or impracticable;" and if not, what steps they should take to translate their longings into action.

as Occurrences 3%

To us, this was dreadful, irreparable, and was wholly due to that iron-bedstead piety which permits no natural growth, but sets down all human loves and longings as of Satanic origin.

through Occurrences 2%

Most of the plants crumble to dust beneath the foot, and the ground is full of cracks; while the thirsty traveler gazes with eager longing through the burning glare to the snowy summits looming like hazy clouds in the distance.

from Occurrences 2%

The children are fat, sleek, and, inheriting no nervous longings from their parents, are on a constant grinat play with loud laughs and high leaps.

like Occurrences 2%

Tonight he would give way, and suffer grief and desire and longing like a physical pain.

by Occurrences 2%

Just as in Japan, the lover might express his longings by cryptic references to Nature, the Indian artist employed poetic symbols to charge his subjects with romantic ardour.

Under Occurrences 2%

Van-d. Wolfort, thou art a Devil, And speakst his language, oh that I had my longing Under this row of trees now would I hang him.

behind Occurrences 1%

Yet make them known he must; for they are not those of some private personal grief or passion, from which he may escape into literature or science, and leave his pains and longings behind him; but his sensibilities are burning with a slow, immense fire, kindled by the very theme on which he writes, and compelling him to write.

beyond Occurrences 1%

For we and the trees are brothers in nature; We feel in our veins the season's thrill In hopes that reach to a higher stature, In blind dim longings beyond our will.

toward Occurrences 1%

A thread of Law runs through thy prayer, Stronger than iron cables are; And Love and Longing toward her goal Are pilots sweet to guide the Soul.

Which preposition to use with  longings