Which preposition to use with monstrous

in Occurrences 23%

Then came land animals, monstrous in growth, by the side of which the elephant dwindles to the diminutive stature of the dormouse.

to Occurrences 10%

He looked at Matt Abrahamson's leathery face, at his lantern jaws cavernously and stolidly chewing at a tobacco leaf, and it seemed monstrous to him that the old man should be so unconscious of the black cloud that wrapped them all about.

as Occurrences 10%

Thus the name is as monstrous as the man, a complex notion of the same lineage with accumulative treason.

than Occurrences 5%

The "dictatorship of the proletariat" actually means the restoration of privilege in a form far more tyrannical and monstrous than any ever exercised by the old aristocracies of Italy, France, Germany and England.

for Occurrences 3%

As to Mobile, it was "a receptacle monstrous for the article.

beneath Occurrences 2%

He tilted back his head with a grunt that slid swiftly into a gurgle, and the shadow of a man's torso, monstrous beneath a huge inverted bottle, wavered and danced on the frown of the cliff at our backs.

against Occurrences 2%

No one made reply, and all eyes centred on the igloo, which loomed vague and monstrous against the clear northeast sky.

without Occurrences 1%

She rules him as her brother the marquis would rule a mistress; even in the abandon of her passion she does not admit him to social equality; she will not let him speak to her in thee and thou, he must address her as ladyship; she is monstrous without ceasing to be a woman of her world, when he dies before her in the arena a broken and vanquished man.

between Occurrences 1%

A crisis seemed to rise up monstrous between them, in an instant.

like Occurrences 1%

30 When, in the sketches thus designed, Resemblance brings some friend to mind, You show the piece, and give the hint, And find each feature in the print: So monstrous like the portrait's found, All know it, and the laugh goes round.

of Occurrences 1%

She would listen impassively, or with a smile, as if in silent approval, to the most monstrous of paradoxes or the most childish chaff.

through Occurrences 1%

Certainly, my lords, there are so many beauties, and so many graces in the face of goodness, that no eye can possibly see it without affection, without ravishment; and the visage of evil is so monstrous through loathsome deformities, that if her lovers were not ignorant they would be mad with disdain and astonishment.

with Occurrences 1%

These rolling shapes of cloud, so fantastically massed and moulded, moving in rhythmic change like painted music in the heaven, radiant with ineffable glories or monstrous with inconceivable doom.

Which preposition to use with  monstrous