Which preposition to use with meanings

of Occurrences 2909%

And so the days pass on, and I am still filled with a wonder to know the meaning of all that I saw on that memorable night.

in Occurrences 319%

'There is often a high meaning in childish play,' said Froebel.

to Occurrences 143%

But, as I stood there, it came to me that there was sense and meaning to all those swinish noises.

for Occurrences 96%

Points of this kind, which the handwriting of Dickens illustrates so well, have a deeper meaning for the observant than for the casual reader of a magazine article; they indicate that these little human acts, which have been so long overlooked by intelligent men, do really give us valuable data for the study of mind by means of written-gesture.

by Occurrences 46%

His notes are short and useful to those who, having studied the psalms, can recall their meaning by a few brief hints.

from Occurrences 35%

" "Here you perceive that the closing sentence of the same paragraph, and which refers directly to the point at issue, is displaced, made to appear as belonging to a separate paragraph, and as conveying a different meaning from what the author has actually expressed.

than Occurrences 34%

It is all a phantasmagoria to mewith no more meaning than a nightmare.

as Occurrences 32%

I think it possible however that Shelley intended, his phrase to be accepted with the same meaning as Vergil's'happier they, supposing they had known their happiness.'

with Occurrences 24%

When he finally replied his words came forth so swiftly I could scarcely grasp their meaning with my slight knowledge of the tongue.

between Occurrences 19%

There is a wide difference in the method of rendering and meaning between the civilian salute as used by friends in passing, or by servants to their employers, and the MILITARY SALUTE, the symbol and sign of the military profession.

into Occurrences 18%

Rutledge answered, "Frankly, I do, if you let me put my own meaning into 'temporary,' We must start things.

at Occurrences 17%

So would explain my sense and meaning at one time.

on Occurrences 11%

But it was the look of the night, the meaning on her face that Willie cared most about, and desired so much to see, that he was at times quite unhappy to think that he never could wake up, not although ever so many strange and lovely dreams might be passing before his window.

through Occurrences 8%

In these, as might be expected, I found him greatly deficient; I found him sometimes mistaking the meaning through ignorance of Plato's more sublime tenets, and at other times perverting it, in order to favor some opinions of his own.

without Occurrences 7%

For if wise men's words have (as they often have) more meanings than one, and yet all true, then surely the words of Jesus, the Son of God, who spake as never man spakeHis words, I say, may have many meanings; yea, meanings without end, meanings which we shall never fully understand, perhaps even in heaven, and yet all alike true.

out Occurrences 6%

In reality, the incident had a meaning out of proportion to its apparent seriousness, for it put in his hand a clue to a new side of his wife's character.

under Occurrences 6%

It is the art, says Hawes, to cloak the meaning under misty figures of many colors, as the old poets did, who took similitudes from beasts and birds.

behind Occurrences 4%

" Meantime, on the opposite side of the table, Mathilde and Pete were equally immersed, murmuring sentences of the profoundest meaning behind faces which they felt were mask-like.

among Occurrences 4%

They were known as Maallakat, or Suspended Books, which had the same meaning among Arabian literati as the term classic bore among the Italian scholars of the Renaissance.

about Occurrences 3%

" I did not understand what he meant, then; perhaps I do not now: some figure of speech from the Orient, I fancy, with a glow of meaning about it visible only to poetic vision.

like Occurrences 3%

Foreign Tongue.~ When lovers talk, they talk a foreign tongue, Their words are not like ours, But full of meanings like the throb of flowers Yet in the earth, unborn.

underneath Occurrences 2%

In his mind there was always a deep meaning underneath every action of the other.

after Occurrences 2%

He had plenty of spirithad all the spirit required for his having engaged himself to Miss Lindeck, into which result, once she had got her head well up again, she read, as they proceeded, one sharp meaning after another.

over Occurrences 2%

Meanings over the dead are mingled with profoundest questionings of philosophy, the signs of nature, and the story of Jesus, while now and then the star of the morning, bright Phosphor, flashes a few rays through the shifting cloudy dark.

isfrom Occurrences 2%

Because the meaning isfrom sin.

Which preposition to use with  meanings