Which preposition to use with mercenary

in Occurrences 16%

The Carthaginian mercenaries in Africa revolt; Hamilcar Barca crushes it out.

of Occurrences 10%

I saw one of the Swiss mercenaries of the Papacy gazing forth a little contemptuously through a door of the Vatican upon the secular outer world.

from Occurrences 4%

It is not the sons of the land who bleed for Britannia's honour; mercenaries from the four corners of the worldincluding blackscarry on the war as a trade for England's business world and nobility.

for Occurrences 4%

It was so on the landing of Agathocles and of Regulus, and likewise in the mercenary war; the spirit that prevailed in Africa is illustrated by the fact, that the Libyan women voluntarily contributed their ornaments to the mercenaries for their war against Carthage.

as Occurrences 3%

Besides, Mavrocordato, unlike the other Grecian captains, having no troops of his own, affected to regard these mercenaries as allies, and was indulgent to their excesses.

into Occurrences 2%

But even those that admit them, can admit them only as pleas of necessity; for they consider the reception of mercenaries into our country, as the desperate "remedy of desperate distress;" and think, with great reason, that all means of prevention should be tried, to save us from any second need of such doubtful succours.

by Occurrences 2%

Shaftesbury is not well disposed toward positive Christianity, holding that it has made virtue mercenary by its promises of heavenly rewards, removed moral questions entirely out of this world into the world to come, and taught men most piously to torment one another out of pure supernatural brotherly love.

under Occurrences 2%

The Thracians, who had formerly been mercenaries under Mithridates, but were then with Fabius, and the slaves present in the Roman camp gave them vigorous assistance.

without Occurrences 1%

"No child of mine could be mercenary without being utterly false to my teachings.

at Occurrences 1%

The father of Damon, whose soul, in union with some amiable qualities, which served him for a disguise, had the misfortune to be exceedingly mercenary at the bottom, had proposed the match to his son.

like Occurrences 1%

And, further exhibiting his youth in holding the individual responsible for the system of which the individual is merely a victim, usually a pitiable victim, he went to the opposite extreme and fell to denouncing hercold-hearted and mercenary like her mother, a coward as well as a hypocritefor, if she had had any of the bravery of self-respect, wouldn't she have been frank with him?

on Occurrences 1%

Liane gazed round the room, acknowledged the salutations of several friends, signalled gaily to a pair of mercenaries on the far side of the dancing floor, and issued peremptory orders to Benouville.

than Occurrences 1%

When they issued forth they appeared clad from head to foot in steel, ravaging the country more like foreign mercenaries than peaceful settlers.

against Occurrences 1%

It was a public law in Aetolia, that an Aetolian might serve as a mercenary against any state, even against a state in alliance with his own country; and, when the other Greeks urgently besought them to redress this scandal, the Aetolian diet declared that Aetolia might sooner be removed from its place than this principle from their national code.

Which preposition to use with  mercenary