Which preposition to use with motto

of Occurrences 136%

But Seymour, the Superintendent, was, in the words of the soothing motto of the whole American people, "All right.

for Occurrences 64%

"I mention not a Medal as a new ideait has been already in contemplation; and a motto for it suggested, which applies with such singular force and propriety to the person whom it is designed to commemorate, that perhaps the wide range of classical literature could not afford another passage so strikingly apposite to a character so extraordinary "Stupuere patres tentamina tanta, Conatusque tuos: pro te Reus ipse timebat.

in Occurrences 29%

This is a very bright looking and expensively fitted apartment, furnished in electric blue and gold, massive gold-framed panels, and a ceiling decorated in relief with arms and mottoes in gold and white.

on Occurrences 23%

If I should ever make a little book out of these papers, which I hope you are not getting tired of, I suppose I ought to save the above sentence for a motto on the title-page.

to Occurrences 23%

The motto to his title runs thus: "We use no weather-wise predictions Nor any such-like airy fictions; But (which we think is much the best) Write the plain truth, or crack a jest:

from Occurrences 13%

Motto from the poet Plato.

over Occurrences 3%

I designed rows of houses, all roofs and no chimneys, or all chimneys and no roofs, it didn't matter which so long as there was an ingle-nook with a motto over it.

than Occurrences 3%

For these amours, he might have found a better motto than that which he has prefixed from Claudian, in the following stanza of Marini.

with Occurrences 3%

"Yes; my motto with men is touch-me-not, and it is your own fault if I'm fierce.

as Occurrences 2%

In war, therefore, each nation adopts a motto as its reason for fighting.

beneath Occurrences 2%

How he used to write on his slate: "Morris Kemlo, Semper fidelis" and she had never once scorned it, but had written her own name with the same motto beneath it.

at Occurrences 2%

Revert thine eye to the motto at the head of this chapter.

next Occurrences 1%

It is easy to go wrong in a wicked world, but there are certain circumstances under which one is pledged to virtue; when, like a knight of the olden time, you wear your motto next your heart and fight for it,"Death rather than defeat!"

amongst Occurrences 1%

In the same manner the more modern "Goat and compasses" may be identified with the text of "God encompasseth us," which was a favourite motto amongst the ale-house Puritans.

among Occurrences 1%

Sauve qui peut was now the motto among all the small creditors.

out Occurrences 1%

About the same year he wrote another Tragedy, intitled [Transcriber's note: 'intiled' in original] the Fatal Vision, or the Fall of Siam (which was acted the same year, in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields) to which he gave this Motto out of Horace.

under Occurrences 1%

I am in Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, the city of William Penn, whose likeness I saw this day in a history of your city, with this motto under it: "Si vis pacem, para bellum"(prepare for war, if thou wilt have peace)a weighty memento, gentlemen, to the name of William Penn.

Which preposition to use with  motto