Which preposition to use with pairs

of Occurrences 4418%

They hire for the season a pair of strong Norman horses that go all day up and down hill at the same regular pace and who get over a vast amount of country.

in Occurrences 65%

He had noticed that she had been rather preoccupied during dinner, an unusual mood for so lively a girl, and now he could not help watching the pair in the distance, she talking with an earnest, troubled expression, and he listening to her story in grave wonderment, now and again interposing a few words.

with Occurrences 44%

Who knows but the fact may induce SUSAN B. ANTHONY to go pairing with some Revolutionary bachelor?

for Occurrences 26%

I kept this one thinking that sooner or later somebody might leave another like it, and then I'd have a pair for nothing.

at Occurrences 19%

I confess my shoes are hardly decent, but then I can make myself a pair at any time; and indeed I've been thinking I would for the last three months, as soon as a slack time came; but I've been far too busy as yet, and, as I don't go out much till after it's dusk, nobody sees them.

on Occurrences 19%

If we had that pair on the Navy eleven, along with you two, no team that the Army ever yet sent out could beat us.

to Occurrences 18%

Marine glasses were in use by every officer who had brought his pair to the deck.

by Occurrences 11%

55 With sweet concern the pitying beauty mourns, And sooths with smiles the jealous pair by turns.

from Occurrences 10%

Dorsey noticed the entrance of the pair from the Quarter Circle KT.

of Occurrences 10%

Opposites> Pairs of the first type are made up of words by nature opposite to each other, or else thought of as opposite because they are so often contrasted.

as Occurrences 7%

If Janson stole the necklace from Monsieur du Laurier, with this pair as accomplices, and then tried to cheat them, a motive for the crime is evident.

like Occurrences 5%

They often work in pairs like that.

about Occurrences 5%

While therein consequence of negotiations that had been carried on for some timeMiss Blunt had her desires gratified by the arrival of a fine Pyrenean puppylike a small white bear with brown pointsfrom Cauterets, one of the identical pair about which we had such a lively scene with the old French fancier.

after Occurrences 3%

The ill-assorted pair after some unhappy years resolved on separation; and falling into bad health and worse spirits, the "bright morning star of Annesley" passed under a cloud of mental darkness.

into Occurrences 3%

" Mrs. Dowson looked up quickly, and then, lowering her eyes, took her hand out of the stocking she had been darning and, placing it beside its companion, rolled the pair into a ball.

off Occurrences 2%

After the other dishes were removed, some large fruit, of the peach kind, were set on the table, when the members of the family, having carefully paired off the skin, ate it, and threw the rest away.

uv Occurrences 2%

kin yoke up a pair uv ordina'y niggers all right.

before Occurrences 2%

He seemed about to hurl himself upon the pair before him.

out Occurrences 2%

May I cut him a pair out of paper?" asked Dodo.

than Occurrences 2%

We have nothing told us to support the theory that Deputy's life ever changed in its routine of work, and I am sure you agree with me that there were never an odder pair than the two: Durdles, the stone-mason, and Deputy, his servant.

over Occurrences 2%

Note (1) stoup in porch, (2) the vigorously executed gargoyles, especially the pair over the porch, a mediaeval presentation of Darby and Joan.

through Occurrences 2%

This done, and the entrance-door being again locked, bolted, and barred, the jailer led the way to another pair of huge gates opposite the pair through which they had entered, and opened a similar small door therein.

beside Occurrences 1%

It was the land of Laura and Petrarch, and she, seated with half-closed eyes beneath the Bayfield elms, saw the pair beside the waters of Vaucluse, saw the roses and orange-trees and arid plains of Provence, and wondered at the trouble in their spiritual love.

across Occurrences 1%

Trees surround her, suggesting by their rank luxuriance the upward surge of spring while cranes, slowly winging their way in pairs across the blackening sky, poignantly remind her of her former love.

amidst Occurrences 1%

The abbot refused to marry the bridal pair amidst such discord.

Which preposition to use with  pairs