Which preposition to use with miserable

for Occurrences 54%

If you hadn't naggedled up to it, I'd have stuck it out somehow and made things miserable for both of us.

than Occurrences 40%

He bent down and let a tear drop, and watched it as it sank into the ground, but no small beetle came out to drink it, and he felt more lonely and miserable than ever.

in Occurrences 39%

Now when the sun was setting, and he was beginning to feel very cold and miserable in his nakedness, the men were seen returning from the hunt; but instead of riding slowly to the camp as on other days, they came riding furiously and shouting.

as Occurrences 27%

When my life had been threatened by the Indians I had not felt half so miserable as when I lay in the dug-out thinking I was destined to die a slow death by starvation and cold.

of Occurrences 27%

Otherwise your home will resemble the most miserable of all scenes of discomfortan ungoverned school; and the most severe and arbitrary household rule is better by far than that.

at Occurrences 18%

The boy sulked and was miserable at home, and, after a number of more serious escapades than he had before indulged in, he was sent to a tutor for military instruction, where he was prepared for the army and received a fairly good professional education.

on Occurrences 14%

We are allthat is, mother is often miserable on your account; and why would you increase her sorrows?

with Occurrences 11%

I'm really afraid he will be miserable with her, and then he'll feel tied to her and be wretched all his life.

by Occurrences 11%

I would not render her life miserable by the suggestion of possible treason in our own household.

about Occurrences 8%

" "Pooh, Willy; don't be afflicted with the idea that you don't make yourself sufficiently miserable about the boy.

to Occurrences 6%

If I am miserable to-day, it is not within the round of probabilities that I shall be supremely happy to-morrow.

over Occurrences 5%

Does a little mother with something like that to bank on have time to be miserable over family rows?

after Occurrences 3%

Make me not miserable after so much blessing.

without Occurrences 2%

Fleet, June 6. SIR, To the account of such of my companions as are imprisoned without being miserable, or are miserable without any claim to compassion, I promised to add the histories of those, whose virtue has made them unhappy or whose misfortunes are at least without a crime.

beyond Occurrences 2%

"All men hate the wretched: how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things.

during Occurrences 2%

It was at this season that Baal Samham called the souls to judgment, which, according to their deserts, were assigned to re-enter the bodies of men or brutes, and to be happy or miserable during their next abode on the earth.

from Occurrences 2%

As you don't, you would both be miserable from the first day.

like Occurrences 2%

'I am a miserable like the rest.

through Occurrences 1%

Harry shook his head, and wandered away miserable through the fields, and would not in these days even set his foot upon the soil of the park.

among Occurrences 1%

The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage and entirely lose their memories; these meet with more pity and assistance, because they want many bad qualities which abound in others....

along Occurrences 1%

Instead of returning to his hotel he wandered aimless and miserable along the river front.

within Occurrences 1%

Then, more seriously, 'My very dear sir,' he continued, 'do you know that if you had your will you would be miserable within the week.

against Occurrences 1%

But we have lost the refuge of private distressthe balm of the afflicted heart the shelter of the miserable against the fury of private adversity; the arts, the graces, the anguish, the misfortunes of society, have lost their patron and their remedy.

Which preposition to use with  miserable