Which preposition to use with loveliest

in Occurrences 122%

It was a perfect gem, laying there all alone, so calm, so lovely in its solitude, with no sign of civilization around it, no sound of civilization startling its echoes from their sleep of ages, no human voice having perhaps ever been heard upon its shore since the red man departed from the hunting-ground of his fathers.

of Occurrences 115%

And the day whereon this happened was the brightest and loveliest of days.

than Occurrences 90%

In the time when the newly-vestured earth appears more lovely than during all the rest of the year came I into the world, begotten of noble parents and born amid the unstinted gifts of benignant fortune.

as Occurrences 82%

"When you are away I cannot bear to go into the house,everything seems so different, so cold and dark,but the moment you come home again it is as lovely as ever.

to Occurrences 38%

But those who can conceive of a world outside of a wedding-ring may believe that the friends remained faithful friends all their lives, while Paul won fame and fortune, and Psyche grew beautiful with the beauty of a serene and sunny nature, happy in duties which became pleasures, rich in the art which made life lovely to herself and others, and brought rewards in time.

for Occurrences 18%

Yes, it described him to say that, in addition to all the rest of him, and of his personal history, and of his family, and of theirs, in addition to their social posture, as that of a serried phalanx, and to their notoriously enormous wealth and crushing respectability, she might have been ever so much less lovely for him if she had been onlywell, a little prepared to answer questions.

with Occurrences 17%

From the Refectory one comes into the ruined cloisters, lovely with all manner of flowers, and so to the site of the old Chapter House, of the sacristy and the monastic buildings.

on Occurrences 10%

"I particularly wanted to show you the view, which should be lovely on a clear day like this.

beyond Occurrences 9%

She came back to the group of girls, flushed and lovely beyond compare, holding up the ravished end of that golden braid with a comic dismay, while her despoiler laughed coarsely from a distance and pinned the trophy to his coat lapel.

at Occurrences 9%

She was looking her loveliest at this moment, all that was softest in her nature called forth by her desire to please her grandmother, whom she really loved.

by Occurrences 9%

56'The existence of distinct individual minds,' &c. Keats, while a living man, had made the loveliness of the universe more lovely by expressing in poetry his acute and subtle sense of its beautiesby lavishing on it (as we say) 'the colours of his imagination,' He was then an 'individual mind'according to the current, but (as Shelley held) inexact terminology.

among Occurrences 8%

Allegory has her place, and a lofty one, in literature; but when her plants cover the garden and run to seed, Allegory herself is ashamed of her children: the loveliest among them are despised for the general obtrusiveness of the family.

of Occurrences 5%

The sail across that loveliest of lakes prepared the new-comers to be charmed with all they saw; and when, entering by the old stone gate, they were led into a large saloon, quaintly furnished and opening into a terrace-garden overhanging the water, with Chillon and the Alps in sight, Amy declared nothing could be more perfect, and Helen's face proved her satisfaction.

about Occurrences 4%

It must be very lovely about here in spring.

through Occurrences 3%

Now all undressed upon the banks he stood, And clapped his sides and leaped into the flood: His lovely limbs the silver waves divide, His limbs appear more lovely through the tide; As lilies shut within a crystal case, Receive a glossy lustre from the glass.

from Occurrences 3%

Now night, that pour'd upon her hollow gale 25 The moan of death, withdrew her mournful veil; The sun rose lovely from the sleeping flood, And morning glitter'd o'er the field of blood; Where bath'd in gore, Peruvia's vanquish'd train Lay cold and senseless on the sanguine plain.

in Occurrences 3%

Christians were persecuted and defenceless, and they betook themselves to the only virtues which they had the opportunity of practisinggentleness, patience, resignation, self-sacrifice, and self-devotionall that is loveliest in the ideal female character.

on Occurrences 2%

Rays of heaven were blending with all that was loveliest on earth; but though the mother's eye was fixed upon the scene, it was evident she did not see it, nor feel its healing power.

stillPont Occurrences 1%

Rain at startingA blighted view, yet lovely stillPont d'EnferNature's voiceSère and EsquiezLuzIts situation and statusAn old houseThe ancient church of the TemplarsLa Chapelle de St. RochPyrenean museumHôtel de l'UniversChâteau de Ste.

before Occurrences 1%

This is his hermitage which looketh lovely before our eyes.

unto Occurrences 1%

6. Let Christ, and all that is his, be precious always and lovely unto them.

beside Occurrences 1%

But Addison's tameness is wonderfully lovely beside the fervours of a man of honoured name,Dr. Isaac Watts, born in 1674.

at Occurrences 1%

" Bel-Narb: I do not think that cities are loveliest at dawn.

alike Occurrences 1%

When, lo! strange shouts of joy and clamourous cheers, Rose from without, and stay'd the astonish'd peers: At hand two damsels entering in were seen, Lovely alike their look, and noble was their mien; On a grey dappled steed each lady rode, That pac'd for pride, as conscious of his load; 'Lo here!'

after Occurrences 1%

"They are not lovely after bloom,only the little pink-streaked, budded bells, that hang so demurely.

Which preposition to use with  loveliest