Which preposition to use with particles

of Occurrences 595%

Tom Gwas one of this genus, full of fun and mischief, but without a particle of real malice in his composition.

in Occurrences 24%

He is continually detecting pernicious particles in everything that he eats and drinks.

to Occurrences 14%

The of the heated particles to each other was instantaneous.

with Occurrences 8%

Comparing these formed particles with those in the Atlantic soundings, he found the two to be identical; and thus proved that the chalk, like the surroundings, contains these mysterious coccoliths and coccospheres.

from Occurrences 6%

Watch the rain raking and sifting with its million delicate fingers, separating the finer particles from the coarser, dropping the latter as soon as it can, and carrying the former downward with it toward the sea.

by Occurrences 6%

Strong only by force of numbers, they carried away entire mountains, particle by particle, block by block, and cast them into the sea; sculptured, fashioned, modeled all the range, and developed its predestined beauty.

on Occurrences 5%

The exhibition over, each would scrape his hoard back into its receptacle, blow the remaining yellow particles on to the floor so that the table should not show stain, and then settle himself to take his part in relating amusing and thrilling incidents of life in the mining camps.

than Occurrences 4%

This nebula, of spherical shapeformed of coarser particles than the previous mist, and reflecting or radiating a more brilliant effulgencewas in rapid whirling motion.

for Occurrences 3%

Ti is the Iroquois particle for water, as in Tioga, &c.

around Occurrences 2%

He can see one thing everywhere, and all things the sameyet each with a thousand sides that radiate crossing lights, even as the airy particles around us.

as Occurrences 2%

"No tongue is so full of connective particles as the Greek.

before Occurrences 1%

" [409] It is remarkable that the ingenious J. E. Worcester could discern nothing of the import of this particle before a verb.

into Occurrences 1%

He swept the particles into his pipe and applied to one of the fish-selling women for a match, lit up, and lounged back against the Leader, smiling disagreeably at the strangers.

off Occurrences 1%

And he plunged his hands in the water and washed the clinging particles off his fingers.

against Occurrences 1%

The snow was thus forced aside, a rubbing of the staff against it, and of the snow-particles against each other, being the consequence.

after Occurrences 1%

In 1694, Camerarius, in his admirable essay on the sexes of plants,* proposes, as queries merely, various modes in which either the entire grains of pollen, or their particles after bursting, may be supposed to reach and act upon the unimpregnated Ovula, which he had himself carefully observed.

about Occurrences 1%

Reaching that place, she buried the heels of her skate-runners in the ice, sending the particles about her in a misty shower, and quickly came to a halt.

above Occurrences 1%

The pitch, expanding under the burning sun of day, must needs expand most towards the line of least resistance, that is, downhill; and when it contracts again under the coolness of night, it contracts, surely from the same cause, more downhill than it does uphill; and so each particle never returns to the spot whence it started, but rather drags the particles above it downward toward itself.

es Occurrences 1%

AS, according to Dr. Johnson, is from the Teutonic als; but Tooke says that als itself is a contraction for all and the original particle es or as, meaning it, that, or which. 5.

Which preposition to use with  particles