Which preposition to use with nightingales

in Occurrences 19%

it must be some one elsethere were other harmonious sternutators beside him, he could not be the only nasal nightingale in the three kingdoms.

of Occurrences 17%

But yet the worst that could be said, He was a wit both born and bred; And, if it be a sin and shame, Nature alone must bear the blame: One fault he has, is sorry for't, His ears are half a foot too short; Which could he to the standard bring, He'd show his face before the king: Then for his voice, there's none disputes That he's the nightingale of brutes.

to Occurrences 14%

The soul is an alien to the body, a nightingale to the air, a swallow in a house, and Ganymede in heaven, an elephant at Rome, a Phoenix in India;" and such things commonly please us best, which are most strange and come the farthest off.

with Occurrences 4%

All her experience had now gone to prove that her special gift was hospital work, and on rejoining her mother she definitely laid before her her wish to devote herself to the work of nursing, and with her consent entered into a correspondence with Miss Nightingale with the idea of entering St. Thomas's Hospital as a Nightingale probationer.

among Occurrences 3%

Returning at sunset, she was very anxious that I should hear my first nightingale among the woody lanes of her pretty country; but we were both disappointed.

for Occurrences 3%

Hence this supposed love of the nightingale for the rose has been frequently the subject of poetical allusion.

through Occurrences 2%

She stopped, and it seemed to her that all the world stopped with her to hear the first soft trill of a nightingale through the tender dusk.

from Occurrences 2%

To wind up the whole of this admirable, precise, and useful criticism by a recapitulation as useful and precise, he says, "all these are about as different from Pope as the church organ is from the bell in the steeple, or, to give him a more decorous comparison, the song of the nightingale from that of the cuckoo.

on Occurrences 2%

Nor ever sang so sweet the nightingale on the cliffs,... nor so much, by the grey sea-waves, did ever the sea-bird sing, nor so much in the dells of dawn did the bird of Memnon bewail the son of the Morning, fluttering around his tomb, as they lamented for Bion dead....

of Occurrences 1%

There are Florence Nightingales of the ballroom, whom nothing can hold back from their errands of mercy.

after Occurrences 1%

'There are no nightingales after June.

as Occurrences 1%

Poets are fond of speaking of the nightingale as being the hen-bird, and Shelley follows this precedent.

before Occurrences 1%

I myself love all these things, yet so as with a difference: for example, some animals better than others, some men rather than other men; the nightingale before the cuckoo, the swift and graceful palfrey before the slow and asinine mule.

during Occurrences 1%

SCUTARI (50), a town of Turkey in Asia, on the Bosporus, opposite Constantinople; has several fine mosques, bazaars, &c.; large barracks on the outskirts were used as hospitals by Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War; has large and impressive cemeteries; chief manufactures are of silks, cottons, &c. Also name of a small town (5) in European Turkey, situated at the S. end of Lake Scutari, 18 by 16 m., in North Albania.

into Occurrences 1%

The two lovers, who dreaded and delayed to part, wandered confusedly after the receding nightingale into the hollow of the forest; they knew not that they were alone, for in their hearts was God.

above Occurrences 1%

With Narcissus this evolution had taken place early: it was very long agohe felt old even then to think of itsince Hesperus had sung like a nightingale above his first kiss, and his memory counted many trophies of lordship.

Which preposition to use with  nightingales