Which preposition to use with novice

in Occurrences 55%

Like any other novice in the practice, he could not divest his mind of the impression, that the frightful thumps he continually received, in twirling the merciless thing around and behind his devoted head, were due to some kind of crowding influence from the boundaries on either side the way, and it was to gain relief from such damaging contraction of area that he left the highway for the wider wintry fields.

of Occurrences 15%

Out of it Henry I. chose his bride that Abbess's niece Maud a novice of Our Lady of Romsey.

at Occurrences 13%

I'm a novice at that kind of thing, never having had any money to play with; but I'm bound to say that he seems to know very well what he's about.

to Occurrences 6%

He was educated at Eton, and still takes our novices to task about a passage in Homer, or a metre in Virgil.

on Occurrences 3%

On the other hand, the distrustful and often repeated glances that were thrown upward, from the men who had clustered on the quarter-deck and around the foot of the mainmast sufficiently proclaimed the diffidence with which the novices on deck were about to enter into the contest of practical wit that was about to commence.

like Occurrences 2%

"I fear it is too difficult for a novice like myself," he said.

with Occurrences 2%

For a moment she stood, passing the golden links through her white fingers like a young novice with a rosary.

than Occurrences 2%

Perhaps there is no man who feels less for the complaints of the novice than your weather-beaten and hardened mariner; for, familiarized to the suffering and confinement of a vessel, and at liberty himself to seek relief in his duties and avocations, he can scarcely enter into the privations and embarrassments of those to whom all is so new and painful.

within Occurrences 1%

Eveena would in any case have been received as a novice within some dozen days.

amongst Occurrences 1%

Looking in the direction indicated, a heavy black cloud appeared in the far horizon; this seemed to extend from right to left, and was so dense that the novices amongst us at once pronounced it, either a mistake or a hoax.

around Occurrences 1%

She looked with envy at the other novices around her who fearlessly threw themselves into the water face downward, learning "Dead Man's Float" inside of ten minutes.

as Occurrences 1%

I was as great a novice as himself, and I must admit that this, my first effort, was open to criticism.

for Occurrences 1%

" "Watch well, Dick, watch well!" cried Captain Hull to the young novice for the last time.

into Occurrences 1%

It must be stated here that Cousin Benedict had endeavored to initiate the young novice into the mysteries of entomology.

amid Occurrences 1%

She was, indeed, a novice amid scenes of fashion, and the genuine pleasure her countenance expressed, appeared a relief when compared to many around her.

Which preposition to use with  novice