Which preposition to use with particular

of Occurrences 662%

He said he wished to learn the particulars of our voyage; and that he, in turn, should certainly render us service, by disclosing some of the results of his own reflections.

in Occurrences 245%

It is not particular in its choice of soilwet or dry, smooth or rocky, it makes out to live well on them all.

about Occurrences 191%

No, he could not remember anything particular about it; indeed, he did not know he remembered anything "at all, at all" until we questioned him.

as Occurrences 82%

By this time, also, he understood all the particulars as to how a shoe is made, and had indeed done a few stitches himself, a good deal of hammering both of leather and of hob-nails, and a little patching, at which last the smallness of his hands was an advantage.

to Occurrences 70%

These qualities enlarge as one passes from the particular to the general, from the personal to the range of natural forces, emergencies, and wide pursuits.

from Occurrences 53%

" "Why, souls'twas the man in the chimney-corner!" "Heywhat?" said the magistrate, coming forward after inquiring particulars from the shepherd in the background.

with Occurrences 35%

The truth wasit sounds romantic, but is really scientific, all romance being, perhaps, based on sciencethat Edith's appearance corresponded in every particular with an ideal that had grown up with him.

by Occurrences 27%

The sister was inveterate; the husband irreconcilable; in every respect unfit for a husband, even for a French onemade, perhaps, more delicate to these particulars by the customs of a people among whom he was then resident, so contrary to those of his own countrymen.

on Occurrences 25%

Being after this labor forty years of age, I worked at various places, and in particular on Ram-Island, which I purchased Solomon and Cuff, two sons of mine, for two hundred dollars each.

for Occurrences 22%

You never hear a real 'salt' flourishing his 'cable-ropes,' and his 'casting-anchors,' which are altogether too sentimental and particular for his manner of speaking.

than Occurrences 13%

Pope's description is relative, and can admit no greater length than is usually allowed to a simile, nor any other particulars than such as form the correspondence.

at Occurrences 13%

But I remember Brother Hartley said that we are very particular at our mill to hire no young people below the legal age.

out Occurrences 7%

Yes, it is only in Lichfield I can detect the raw stuff of a genuine tragedy; for, depend upon it, Rudolph, the most pathetic tragedy in life is to get nothing in particular out of it.

under Occurrences 5%

Judgment, in the general sense, is the faculty of thinking a particular as contained in a universal, and exercises a twofold function: as "determinant" judgment it subsumes the particular under a given universal (a law), as "reflective" it seeks the universal for a given particular.

before Occurrences 5%

It is for this reason that in returning from the diggings he should take another route, of which he will get full particulars before leaving Dawson; therefore I do not take the time to give a full description of the return trip via the Yukon to St. Michael.

without Occurrences 4%

If I had heard these particulars without knowing you, they might have repelled me.

against Occurrences 4%

Claudio confirmed all this, with saying that Hero had told him Beatrice was so in love with Benedick that she would certainly die of grief, if he could not be brought to love her; which Leonato and Claudio seemed to agree was impossible, he having always been such a railer against all fair ladies, and in particular against Beatrice.

into Occurrences 3%

Thus, by this system of cross-examination, he showed the intimate connection between the dialectic method and the logical distribution of particulars into species and genera.

during Occurrences 2%

His essential nature is comparatively fixed at birth and is beyond the power or caprice of parent or environment to change in any fundamental particular during the short period of a lifetime.

between Occurrences 2%

But reflecting on the striking difference in so many particulars between this country and those where a courier may go from the seat of government to the frontier in a single day, it was then certainly foreseen by some who assisted in Congress at the formation of it that it could not be durable.

through Occurrences 2%

Of the proceedings against him he received no official intelligence; but he gleaned the chief particulars through the inquiries of Herbert, and in casual conversation with Witchcott the governor.

over Occurrences 2%

For a protagonist he obtrudes himself only moderately in a rather discursive story which involves a number of other people who do nothing in particular over a good many chapters.

after Occurrences 1%

Further, at that time science and exact knowledge generally had not reached the point which they reached a little laterof corroborating in particular after particular, so far as they are capable of doing so, the Revelation of God known as Catholicism; and of knowing their limitations where they cannot.

instancefor Occurrences 1%

In this particular instancefor this day and date onlyI am as pure as a new-mown hay.

timefor Occurrences 1%

Vastly active was he, it seems, in the great undertaking of obtaining tickets for one of Mrs. Cornely's entertainmentsthe "thing" to go to at that particular timefor his friends the Jameses.

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