Which preposition to use with mutiny

of Occurrences 62%

How about that?" "And the mutiny of the men," added the surgeon.

in Occurrences 58%

"Put us aboard ship, sir, and let us hear the Old Man give his orders, and you'll find no mutiny in us.

on Occurrences 40%

"Since the Consul went away on leave things seem to have been hummingtwo stabbing affrays, eight drunken seamen locked up, a mutiny on a tramp steamer, and now a yacht being cast awaya fairly decent list!

against Occurrences 19%

Why, yes, marry herI hope you are none of the fashionable Fops, that are always in Mutiny against Marriage, who never think themselves very witty, but when they rail against Heaven and a Wife But, Frank, I have found better Principles in thee, and thou hast the Reputation of a sober young Gentleman; thou art, besides, a Man of great Fortune, Frank.

among Occurrences 15%

At length Carleton wrote to the Duke of Portland, Pitt's home secretary, saying: 'All command, civil and military, being thus disorganized and without remedy, your Grace will, I hope, excuse my anxiety for the arrival of any successor, who may have authority sufficient to restore order, lest these insubordinations should extend to mutiny among the troops and sedition among the people.'

at Occurrences 15%

Nor were there wanting some on the occasion who mutinied at the mere name and dread of the Punic sea, a tribune named Mannius increasing their alarm; but the general, threatening him with the axe if he did not obey, produced courage for the voyage by the terror of death.

amongst Occurrences 4%

The Kings Royall thoughts Are in a mutiny amongst themselves, And nothing can allay them but a slaughter, A general massacre of all the Christians That breath in his Dominion.

as Occurrences 3%

And a few pages farther on occurs the following striking passage: "The ablest and most experienced civil and military servants of the East India Company consider mutiny as one of the greatest, if not the greatest danger threatening India,a danger also that may come unexpectedly, and, if the first symptoms be not carefully treated, with a power to shake Leadenhall.

for Occurrences 3%

THE SEDITIOUS MAN Is a civil mutineer, and as all mutinies for the most part are for pay, if it were not for that he would never trouble himself with it.

aboard Occurrences 2%

Down the wind came her words, high, voluble, quelling all further mutiny aboard that craft of hers.

from Occurrences 2%

Some mutinied from mere panic, some from bitterness of hate.

over Occurrences 2%

Once, too, when there was some grumbling and talk of a mutiny over the state of the provisions, he was of opinion that they should not wait for the dogs to rise, but that they should march forward and set upon them until they had trounced the devilment out of them.

to Occurrences 2%

It was afterwards with Bligh in the Bounty, sold by Adams after the Mutiny to an American, who sold it again in Chili.

with Occurrences 2%

He alone knows the secret of the poison; one of his men breaks away from him, and pays for his mutiny with his life.

within Occurrences 2%

What you have seen in me, to stir offence, I cannot find, unless it be this Lady Offer'd into mine arms, with the succession, Which I must keep though it hath pleas'd your fury To mutiny within you; without disputing Your Genealogies, or taking knowledge Whose branch you are.

out Occurrences 1%

Would he gather the fishermen from all over Tahiti, and decimate them, the way the Little Corporal purged mutiny out of his regiments?

under Occurrences 1%

BLIGH, WM., a naval officer; served under Captain Cook; commanded the Bounty at Tahiti, when his crew mutinied under his harsh treatment, and set him adrift, with 18 others, in an open boat, in which, after incredible privations, he arrived in England; was afterwards governor of N.S. Wales, but dismissed for his rigorous and arbitrary conduct (1753-1817).

through Occurrences 1%

He quelled one incipient mutiny through sheer dominance, but it left him more short of temper, more crabbedly moody than ever.

without Occurrences 1%

If we consider our fleet or our army, my lords, it is apparent, that neither obedience nor fidelity can be expected from men upon whom all the ties of morality, and all the sanctions of law have lost their influence; they will mutiny without fear, and desert without scruple, and like wild beasts, will, upon the least provocation, turn upon those by whom they ought to be governed.

by Occurrences 1%

This ungrateful miscreant fostered discontent and mutiny by every art of persuasion and calumny at his command, and soon had a large band of worthless and idle ruffians ready to follow his lead.

after Occurrences 1%

TANTIA TOPEE, the most daring and stubborn of Nana Sahib's lieutenants during the Indian Mutiny; in alliance with the Rani of Jhansi he upheld for a time the mutiny after the flight of his chief, but was finally captured and executed in 1859.

off Occurrences 1%

Mocha frigate, the, crew of, mutiny off Acheen; renamed the Defence; renamed the Resolution.

about Occurrences 1%

"Well, sir, there is a ghost, or demon, or something aboard of this very ship, and some of the crew are in a state next door to mutiny about it.

Which preposition to use with  mutiny