Which preposition to use with memory

of Occurrences 3893%

I have the queer, faint, pit-water smell of it in my nostrils now as I write, and my fingers have subconscious memories of the soft, "cloggy" feel of the long-damp pages.

in Occurrences 161%

All the Americans who came to see us at the Quai d'Orsay were much interested in everything relating to General Marquis de Lafayette, who left an undying memory in America, and many pilgrimages were made to the Chateau de la Grange, where the Marquis de Lafayette spent the last years of his life and extended a large and gracious hospitality to all his friends.

for Occurrences 135%

They were interesting days, those first ones in Paris, so full of memories for father, who had been there a great deal in his young days, first as an eleve in the Ecole Polytechnique, later when the Allies were in Paris.

with Occurrences 127%

Our memory is as fresh as ever, but it is memory with the sting taken out.

as Occurrences 72%

She always lives in my memory as one of the most charming women I have ever met.

to Occurrences 71%

With that there sprung from behind the brush of beard, filling out the deep lines of emaciation, a memory to the recognition of Barnett; a keen and gay countenance that whisked him back across seven years time to the days of Dewey and the Philippines.

by Occurrences 53%

"I was simply testing your memory by claiming to be an old friend.

from Occurrences 37%

Pleasant evenings those seem to me now, as they come floating down on the current of memory from the long past, and dear are the faces of those that made up the tableaux as they were grouped around those winter fires.

than Occurrences 27%

Take care, that when your bodies are separated from life, men may think about you without any other memory than that of your virtues.

on Occurrences 23%

" "Mr. Cumberland, let me ask you to fix your memory on the moments you spent in the hall.

like Occurrences 23%

The words and the quaintness of the minor air struck me immensely and have clung to my memory like a burr ever since.

at Occurrences 20%

Queen Isabella, horrified at the murder of her confessorfor "confessor of the kings" was an honorary dignity conferred on each inquisitor in Spainerected a monument to his memory at her own expense; and when the murders perpetrated by Arbues himself had somewhat faded out of public memory, he was beatified at Rome, and a chapel was constructed for his veneration in the church where he had fallen.

without Occurrences 13%

Then he borrowed an old copy of Adam's Latin Grammar from Dr. Greenfield, and committed the rules to memory without a teacher.

into Occurrences 11%

At first, with nothing surrounding to awaken memory into action, only that dull vista of sea and sky, my mind refused to respond to any impression; then the sharp pain of my wounds, accented by the sting of salt water, brought me swift realization of where I was, and the circumstances bringing me there.

among Occurrences 9%

And it is this which has hallowed his memory among his own English people.

after Occurrences 8%

XV THE COCONUT TREE Among the classic fairy-tales which passed like shooting stars across those dark hours of our boyhood in which we wrestled with the grim rudiments of Latin and Greek, and which abide in the memory after nearly all that they helped to brighten has passed away, there was one which related to a contest between Neptune and Minerva as to which should confer the greatest benefit on the human race.

behind Occurrences 8%

Time itself seems to go at a much slower pace when we are young; so that not only is the first quarter of life the happiest, it is also the longest of all; it leaves more memories behind it.

out Occurrences 6%

A few anecdotes, a few traits of character, manners, faces, a few incidents have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by ordinary standards.

before Occurrences 5%

At that instant, with the memory before me of the vision I have just described, I almost wished that it had been my hate, my anger which had brought those tell-tale marks out upon that livid skin.

through Occurrences 4%

Despite of frequent defects of workmanship, they cling to the memory through their truth and intensity, though to many a reader to-day such, episodes may be chiefly known to exist through a parenthesis in one of Macaulay's Essays, where he speaks of "that pathetic passage in Crabbe's Borough which has made many a rough and cynical reader cry like a child.

until Occurrences 3%

The wretchedness of those days will live in my memory until my dying day.

over Occurrences 3%

He cast is memory over the months that had passed in New York.

unto Occurrences 2%

But she to have knowledge of the Olden Love Days within her spirit, and to mind that there did be alway, as it did be, a lovely and golden light upon the world; but she not to know truly whether this to be but the holy glamour-light that Memory doth set about a past loveliness; and to have no remembering of the Sun; but yet to be made ready by her memories unto believing.

during Occurrences 2%

Mrs. Johnson apparently knew how to regain supremacy; but, at any rate, Johnson loved her devotedly during life, and clung to her memory during a widowhood of more than thirty years, as fondly as if they had been the most pattern hero and heroine of romantic fiction.

about Occurrences 2%

It might seem evasive in us to suggest to our English critics that they should refresh their memories about the causes and the justification of our Revolution by reading the pages of their own Burke.

Which preposition to use with  memory