Which preposition to use with moods

of Occurrences 473%

Our every mood of penitence, praise, and aspiration resounds in melodious and time-defying strains.

for Occurrences 138%

He had noticed that she had been rather preoccupied during dinner, an unusual mood for so lively a girl, and now he could not help watching the pair in the distance, she talking with an earnest, troubled expression, and he listening to her story in grave wonderment, now and again interposing a few words.

in Occurrences 66%

You take passages written in Englishthe more of them the better, and the more diversified the betterand both reproduce their substance and incarnate their mood in words you yourself shall choose.

to Occurrences 31%

In concloosion, feller citizens, feelin' in rather a poetical mood to-day, I will close with the follerin' tribute to Wall Street and its inhabitants: "Imperious SEIZER, dead, and turned to cla, Mite stop a hole to keep the wind away;" Onless from Wall Street, was blowin' raw.

than Occurrences 16%

He was working among his flower pots and seemed in a quieter mood than usual.

by Occurrences 14%

She could measure his mood by the preliminaries before his disclosure.

with Occurrences 14%

They laugh when he laughs, cry when he does, and watch his fleeting moods with thumping hearts.

from Occurrences 12%

" The Nigger had entered one of his black, brooding moods from which these men expected oracles.

on Occurrences 10%

Andy's got a repentant mood on him.

as Occurrences 8%

Higher than all that Nature can do in the way of direct lessoning, is the production of such holy moods as result in hope, conscience of duty, and supplication.

into Occurrences 6%

Charles was now plunged into a state of profound melancholy; but he soon burst from this gloomy mood into one of renewed fierceness and fatal desperation.

at Occurrences 5%

Her mood at this moment was so calm and elevated that she received the incident with no start or shiver of the nerves.

after Occurrences 4%

One of the air pilots was trying to sing a song, being in jovial mood after receiving a letter that he admitted was from his "girl in the States" and the others manifested a desire to join in the chorus, though none of them dared let their voices out, since it was against the rules.

like Occurrences 3%

In a mood like Otto's a trifling circumstance is sufficient to determine the quality of action.

over Occurrences 3%

I was developing quite a twilight mood over thema plaintive, old-lettery sort of mood, you know.

through Occurrences 3%

On the whole, this principle was found to be sufficient until the enthusiasm of the new poetic generation demanded a closer connection between the poetic form and the variable conditions of the soul; they found a way out of the difficulty by carrying a rhythmical mood through a variety of metrical divisions, and thus came upon the "free rhythms."

toward Occurrences 3%

The Argentine Republic, since its financial troubles early in the decade, had been in a complaisant and conciliating mood toward all the world, and Corbett had little difficulty in his first stepthat of securing a concession for stringing wires in any designs which might suit him upon the vast pampas of the interior.

towards Occurrences 3%

He has not lost the kindness that used to make him a benefactor and succourer of the needy, and he is still liberal in helping forward the clever and industrious; but in his active superintendence of commercial undertakings he has contracted more and more of the bitterness which capitalists and employers often feel to be a reasonable mood towards obstructive proletaries.

under Occurrences 2%

In this latter, which he named from his favourite country-house, he addressed himself to the subjects which suited best with his own sorrowful mood under his recent bereavement.

of Occurrences 2%

in ing, ("The books continue SELLING") Verbs, Modifications of, named Moods of, named and defined; (see Infinitive Mood, Indic.

within Occurrences 2%

Thus, when my mother left me by myself that afternoon I sat in a fearful mood within our tepee.

before Occurrences 2%

In any soliloquy, a man must speak from his present mood: we who are not suffering, and who have many of his moods before us, ought to understand Hamlet better than he understands himself.

without Occurrences 2%

Only between themselves did they ever speak of the change in him, and Henry Callandar was well repaid for the careless kindness of his brighter hours by a faithful guardianship, a quick-eyed consideration and a stout line of defence which protected his privacy and ignored his moods without his ever being aware of such a service.

during Occurrences 1%

My mood during these periods of fascination was as variable as the different heroines I admired.

until Occurrences 1%

Sometimes, when Captain Wegg was alive, he would build a log fire in the great fireplace on a winter's evening and sit before it in silent mood until far into the night.

Which preposition to use with  moods