Which preposition to use with neglects

of Occurrences 594%

The ship bearing this malicious order had to put back; so it was not till the middle of May 1777 that Carleton was disillusioned by its arrival as well as by a second and still more exasperating dispatch accusing him of neglect of duty for not having taken Ticonderoga in November and thus prevented Washington from capturing the Hessians at Trenton.

in Occurrences 126%

Being swept once beyond a usual caution, I lamented to my friend F of the neglect in which readers held me, to which the above experience in a library was a rare exception.

for Occurrences 40%

As for his dismission out of France, they interpreted it, not as if he were detected or neglected for a counterfeit deceiver, but, contrariwise, that it did show manifestly unto the world that he was some great matter, for that it was his abandoning that, in effect, made the peace, being no more but the sacrificing of a poor, distressed prince unto the utility and ambition of two mighty monarchs.

on Occurrences 35%

As for the Lady Monmouth, she bought not a single copy, which neglect on coming to the Digbys aroused a coolness.

with Occurrences 17%

BOOK III THE ODES OF P'EI ~An Officer Bewails the Neglect with which He is Treated~ It floats about, that boat of cypress wood, Now here, now there, as by the current borne. Nor rest nor sleep comes in my troubled mood; I suffer as when painful wound has torn The shrinking body.

at Occurrences 15%

The concluding number of Dana's Idle Man, a work neglected at first, but now numbered among the best things of the kind in our language, was issued in the same month.

to Occurrences 12%

But this new spring had not come with such serene neglect to the other two of us three.

during Occurrences 8%

His wound, neglected during the journey, had become septic and in spite of all his sufferings, nothing was done for him.

from Occurrences 8%

Bengal was brought over and given a separate ovation for having so nobly sacrificed herself for the cause of the Alley; Agony also came in for a great deal of extra cheering because she had acted so promptly when she lost her paddle, and Sahwahwell, Sahwah was the Captain, and when did the Captain of a victorious crew ever suffer neglect from the side he represented?

than Occurrences 8%

But it was found out ere many months had passed that those brave fellows, who were laying down their lives for the sake of their country, were being so badly nursed when they were sick and wounded that more were being slain by neglect than by the guns of the enemy.

as Occurrences 8%

His above utterance, therefore, cannot be neglected as that of an irresponsible person.

about Occurrences 4%

Yet she was changed too, for in her face there were visible tokens of unhappiness, her face swollen with crying, pale and downcast, her hair hanging in disorder, her damp hands wringing a small handkerchief into a ball, her whole body shaken with sobs, and an air of long neglect about her person.

among Occurrences 4%

Government had sent plenty of lime-juice; but it was somehow neglected among the stores for twenty-four days when it was most wanted, as was the supply of rice for six weeks when dysentery was raging.

without Occurrences 3%

In short, commerce has made this country what it is, and it can not be destroyed or neglected without involving the people in poverty and distress.

until Occurrences 2%

This variety had been widely grown for domestic use as early as the beginning of the nineteenth century, but it was left largely in neglect until when in the thirties it was hit upon for negro crops.

under Occurrences 2%

He informed us that the aged and disabled were very much neglected under the apprenticeship.

into Occurrences 2%

Coventry's romance does not deserve the entire neglect into which it has fallen.

by Occurrences 2%

He that wishes to be counted among the benefactors of posterity, must add by his own toil to the acquisitions of his ancestors, and secure his memory from neglect by some valuable improvement.

towards Occurrences 2%

And here I am enabled fully to refute a very unjust reflection, by Sir John Hawkins, both against Dr. Johnson, and his faithful servant, Mr. Francis Barber; as if both of them had been guilty of culpable neglect towards a person of the name of Heely, whom Sir John chooses to call a relation of Dr. Johnson's.

of Occurrences 1%

From an address made by him upon the "Needs and Neglects of the Black Woman of the South," we quote his plea for "Woman's Work for Woman.

after Occurrences 1%

This class, if neglected after leaving the school, will be likely to relapse into some of their early habits, but if properly cared for, may continue to improve.

like Occurrences 1%

Vesta, with her simple cult and her virgin priestesses, was almost the only deity who was not either forgotten or metamorphosed in one way or another under the influence of Greek literature and mythology; Vesta was too well recognised as a symbol of the State's vitality to be subject to neglect like other and less significant cults.

near Occurrences 1%

Romeo and Juliet had lain neglected near 80 years, when in 1748-9 Garrick brought it out, or rather a hash of it.

sensefor Occurrences 1%

Well, this is the way in the case of this neglected sensefor the two reasons just mentioned, the average person is almost unaware of its existence.

through Occurrences 1%

The royal palaces of all the great fortified cities throughout my dominions, which from the olden time our kings had neglected through long years, had become ruined.

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