Which preposition to use with object

of Occurrences 6641%

If the object of our allegiance be a high one, if the ideal be a grand one, our lives are in a constant process of development toward that height, that grandeur.

to Occurrences 1525%

Though they have been occasionally bullied and threatened by lawless and overbearing neighbours; yet, as they can be approached by only a single gorge in the mountain, which is always well garrisoned, (and they present no sufficient object to ambition, to compensate for the scandal of invading so inoffensive and virtuous a people,) they have never yet been engaged in war.

in Occurrences 1083%

There are always a certain number of people at the big official receptions whose principal object in coming seems to be to make a comfortable meal.

for Occurrences 262%

The object for which Sir John Franklin had sailed, viz., the discovery of the North West passage, had been attained, but no single man of the expedition, alas, lived to enjoy the fruits of the discovery.

on Occurrences 167%

The sun's rays fell obliquely on her disc, so that by a large part of its surface not reflecting the light, I saw every object on it, so far as I was enabled by the power of my telescope.

with Occurrences 148%

Still, any kind of effort-making is better than inaction, and there is something sublime in seeing men working in dead earnest at anything, pursuing an object with glacier-like energy and persistence.

at Occurrences 102%

The sense of sight should be guarded from gazing at objects at hand, persons, books, landscape, etc.

by Occurrences 87%

He spent a great deal of time thinking out means of helping materially the young art-student, and always he succeeded in this object by his elaborate and tactful care.

as Occurrences 87%

They consider the edifices as the enchanted palaces of the fairy Morgana, and the moving objects as living things which inhabit them.

from Occurrences 85%

"It would be so handy for fightingSee here," he suddenly continued, pulling some object from his pocket, "here's a pipe; present to me; I don't smoke 'em.

than Occurrences 58%

"I haven't begun to drivel yet, Rege; and life counts for a good deal more when a man has an object than when he is living just to please himself."

before Occurrences 45%

The one immediate object before me was to attain the bark in advance of Estada.

without Occurrences 35%

They knew the effect of political institutions upon the material well-being and civilization of a nation, and they no longer deemed it possible to attain these objects without a modern constitutional government.

around Occurrences 27%

The breast of Delia, framed for softness and melancholy, was filled with sensations responsive to the objects around her, and even the eternal clack of Miss Fletcher was still.

against Occurrences 26%

And indeed the indecency of tumults is all which can be objected against fighting.

after Occurrences 25%

The slow approach of light gradually brought out object after object in the little panorama, awakening and removing alike, conjectures and apprehensions.

within Occurrences 24%

Gradually the outline of the room and the objects within it began to reveal themselves in shadowy shape as his eyes became accustomed to the dim light.

into Occurrences 19%

May the divil dance on shorrt rations!" "No scurvy in this camp for a while yet," said the Colonel, throwing some heavy objects into a pan and washing them vigorously round and round.

about Occurrences 15%

As early as two years old he loves to take things out of boxes and to move objects about, so boxes of bricks were supplied, graded in number and in variety of form.

like Occurrences 12%

Some minutes afterwards a high, dark object like a mountain-top, loomed in the haze.

out Occurrences 11%

It was nearly the time of full moon, and on this account, though the sky was lined with a uniform sheet of dripping cloud, ordinary objects out of doors were readily visible.

among Occurrences 11%

It was this which made him incorporate this great object among the pursuits of his life, so that it was daily in his thoughts.

near Occurrences 11%

Unable to see anything with all the light behind him, but fancying that he discerns a gleam beyond a dark object near at hand, Mr. BUMSTEAD rises to a standing attitude by a series of complex manoeuvres, and plants a foot on something.

under Occurrences 10%

"No, Jeeves," I said, in a level tone, "the object under advisement is mine.

through Occurrences 9%

Garibaldi, when no battle was raging or danger nearif in the city, selected some lofty belfry-tower; if in the country, climbed the loftiest peak; and, with brief minutes of repose under his saddle-tent, literally lived on horseback, posting his own pickets, making his own observations, sometimes passing hours in perfect silence, scanning the most distant and minute objects through his telescope.

Which preposition to use with  object