Which preposition to use with pangs

of Occurrences 521%

Naturalists are positive it is not the Gyascutis, but admit that a Megatherium may have lately awakened from the magnetic sleep of ages, with the pangs of a mighty hunger tearing his wasted viscera.

at Occurrences 35%

Why, then, should I, who have made you my exemplar, feel a pang at parting with a sceptre which for years has only tired my hand?

in Occurrences 21%

Lady Mary said; and the pang in her heart was so great that the very atmosphere was stirred, and the air could scarcely contain her and the passion of her endeavor to make herself known, but thrilled like a harp-string to her cry.

to Occurrences 20%

Compared with her other losses, that of her home, dearly as she loved it, weighed but little; it was but, an added pang to the anguish of her bereavement; and behind that, the principal cause of her grief, loomed the desertion of her lover.

of Occurrences 12%

Very often a whole Train of Railers of each Side tire their Horses in setting Matters right which they have said during the War between the Parties; and a whole Circle of Acquaintance are put into a thousand pleasing Passions and Sentiments, instead of the Pangs of Anger, Envy, Detraction, and Malice.

for Occurrences 9%

But how stall I describe, in numbers rude, The pangs for poor Chrysomitris decreed, When from her secret stand aghast she viewed The cruel spoiler perpetrate the deed? 'O grief of griefs!'

from Occurrences 6%

The saints now most esteemed love lying lips, Lust, strife, injustice; sweet to them the cry Drawn forth by monstrous pangs from men that die: So many plagues hath not the Apocalypse As these wherewith they smite Thy friends ignored Even as I am; search my heart, and know; My life, my sufferings bear Thy stamp and sign.

through Occurrences 5%

And Earth her mists wrapped round her face in woe, While icy pangs through all her breast deep flow.

without Occurrences 5%

There she liesand will lie till she diesthe type of thousands more, 'the martyrs by the pang without the palm,' who find no mates in this life . . .

on Occurrences 5%

Whether her father, at last, consented to her final retirement from the world I do not discover from her biography; but, with his consent or without it, she entered the convent and assumed the religious habit,not without bitter pangs on leaving her home, for she did violence to her feelings, having no strong desire for monastic seclusion, and being warmly attached to her father.

within Occurrences 4%

Then when he had drunk his fill, Tristram took the chalice and would have drunk too; but the other said, "Stay, Tristram, there is great bitterness in that chalice"; and then he said, "Methinks I feel a very bitter pang within my vitals,"

by Occurrences 3%

130 At length to madness stung by fix'd disdain, The victor gives to rage the fiery rein; And bids her sorrows flow from that fond source Where strong affection feels their keenest force, Whose breast, when most it suffers, only heeds 135 The sharper pangs by which another bleeds:

beyond Occurrences 2%

I wept, until my spectacles were dimmed for that hopeless sorrow; but there was a pang beyond tears for those icy statues.

like Occurrences 2%

If thou feel not for a pang like that, what is it for which thou art accustomed to feel?

with Occurrences 2%

That was the terrible thing, that had been the inward pang with which she watched Basil French recede: perjury would have to come in somehow and somewhereoh so quite certainly!before the so strange, so rare young man, truly smitten though she believed him, could be made to rise to the occasion, before her measureless prize could be assured.

without Occurrences 1%

Success let others teach, learn thou from me Pangs without birth, and fruitless industry.

above Occurrences 1%

But, oh, how far each other pang above 85 Throbs the wild agony of hopeless love; That grief, for which in vain shall comfort shed Her healing balm, or time in pity spread The veil, that throws a shade o'er other care; For here, and here alone, profound despair 90 Casts o'er the suff'ring soul a lasting gloom, And slowly leads her victim to the tomb.

across Occurrences 1%

I must try to see Sir Edwin' A pang across the loins made him end abruptly, groaning, moaning, muttering.

around Occurrences 1%

Till the small culprit on his nightly couch Dream'd of strange pains, and felt his body writhe In tortuous pangs around the impaling stake.

as Occurrences 1%

Would God I were suffering all those pangs as aforetime, so that there might be no more tears upon your face.

before Occurrences 1%

He was destined to suffer a fresh pang before the moment of parting came.

in Occurrences 1%

For this Reason we often find them endeavouring at Works of Fancy, which cost them infinite Pangs in the Production.

about Occurrences 1%

Mr. Johnson felt a dull pang about the region of his heart.

Which preposition to use with  pangs