Which preposition to use with malays

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The class distinctions and the despotic oppression prevalent under their former chiefs doubtless rendered the Filipinos of the past more like the Malays of today.

of Occurrences 3%

Nor were the words less relished that the eulogist was as ignorant of military excellence as a Malay of the uses of a patent mower.

from Occurrences 2%

All the accounts of the Datu of Soung are kept in Dutch, by a young Malay from Tarnate, who writes a good hand, and speaks English, and whom we found exceedingly useful to us.

for Occurrences 2%

Trepang, a species of Holothuria (Priapulus sp., Lam. iii. 76), an animal collected by the Malays for the Chinese market.

in Occurrences 2%

Many travellers mention vessels found likewise amongst the Dyaks and the Malays in Borneo, which, from superstitious motives, were estimated at most exaggerated figures, amounting sometimes to many thousand dollars.

in Occurrences 2%

There was no long pause after my remark addressed to the company, but in that time I had the train of ideas and feelings I have just given flash through my consciousness sudden and sharp as the crooked red streak that springs out of its black sheath like the creese of a Malay in his death-rage, and stabs the earth right and left in its blind rage.

on Occurrences 2%

If the opinion of his foes be accepted he is one of the greatest Malays on the page of history.

with Occurrences 1%

Gregory, an Italian, sought shelter in the foretop-gallant cross-trees, where he was fired at several times by the Malays with the muskets of the Friendship, which were always kept loaded and ready for use while on the coast.

as Occurrences 1%

I had here pointed out to me a kind of tea-tree, or Melaleuca, which had a short time before been recognised by a Malay as that producing the valuable cajeput oil, and on trial, the oil procured from the leaves by distillation, was found to be scarcely inferior in pungency to that of the Melaleuca cajeputi of the Moluccas.

about Occurrences 1%

Now in justice to the gentlemen, I must say, baronet, there are strong symptoms of the Malay about Caroline Harris.

Which preposition to use with  malays