Which preposition to use with penning

of Occurrences 357%

With the practised pen of a lawyer Henshaw quickly wrote down a short declaration, signing it with a flourish and then flicking it across the table to Gifford.

In Occurrences 261%

These pens are of a finer quality, more durable, and cheaper | | than any other Pen In the market.

for Occurrences 64%

Encouraged by his literary success, he thought of throwing up his clerkship and trusting to his pen for a livelihood,a design from which he was happily diverted by his friends.

to Occurrences 57%

Suffice it now to say, that he was expelled by Rosas in 1840 from Buenos Ayres, and that he took his way to Chile, with the intention in that hospitable republic of devoting his pen to the service of his oppressed country.

with Occurrences 38%

SIR:It is with feelings of indignation and scorn that I proceed once more to pollute my pen with the chronicles of a mercenary rabble.

into Occurrences 28%

The priest had got writing materials, and put a pen into the slack hand, with a block of letter-paper under it.

from Occurrences 27%

Major Pendennis had won a complete victory, and his secret delight at having rescued Pen from an unwise attachment was only equalled by his regret at the real suffering he was obliged to allow the lad to go through.

on Occurrences 26%

As soon as a visitor came in, she rose from the suspiciously clean writing-table, put down the dry pen on a spotless blotter, went and sat in a large brocaded arm-chair in front of some palms, within view of the piano, and began to talk.

at Occurrences 21%

It shows how God watches over the daily work of priests, while His angels record in golden or silvern letters the work of pious recitation, or perhaps hold their pens at rest.

than Occurrences 16%

" It needs a greater pen than mine to do justice to all we saw that afternoon, for we went through all the wards and saw all the sights there were to see.

behind Occurrences 14%

"You look so much like an author, Mr. BUMSTEAD, in having no overcoat, wearing your paper collar upside down, and carrying a pen behind your ear," Father DEAN is saying, "that I can almost fancy you are about to write a book about us.

through Occurrences 14%

Then Sharpman examined, carefully, the list of jurors that was handed to him, and drew his pen through one of the names.

as Occurrences 12%

Here and there are dots made with the pen as the first of the two spelled out the words so as to know what letters to write and what to leave blank.

within Occurrences 10%

Who knows how to dip a pen within the twilight?

by Occurrences 9%

The Bakatla of the village Mabotsa were much troubled by lions, which leaped into the cattle-pens by night and destroyed their cows.

over Occurrences 7%

" All that day and far into the evening he sat at his task, pausing now and then for inspiration, but most of the time diligently pushing his pen over the strongly lined note paper and hopelessly straying from the lines.

under Occurrences 7%

" 1821.The first entry in the diary of this year turns upon the ever-present subject of his going abroad, and is penned under feelings of the deepest solemnity.

against Occurrences 7%

That heavy taxes will not deter the people from any favourite enjoyment, has been already shown by the unsuccessfulness of the last attempt to restrain them from the use of spirits, and may be every day discovered from the use of tobacco, which is universally taken by the common people, though a very high duty is laid upon it, and though a king thought it so pernicious that he employed his pen against it.

like Occurrences 6%

In the very last hours before armistice took effect, German batteries poured a deluge of high explosives and poison gas on Mezieres, where there were no allied soldiers at all, but only civilians, men, women and children, twenty thousand of them, penned like rats in a trap, without possibility of escape.

of Occurrences 5%

M. Zola's device is Nulla dies sine linea, and even before the materials for 'Fecondite' were brought to him from France he had given an hour or two each day to the penning of notes and impressions for subsequent use.

across Occurrences 5%

Two and a half hours of happiness unalloyed did I spend at that shiny, leather-clad desk, guiding my nimble pen across the pages of the note-book.

without Occurrences 5%

Even from the depths of my retreat, it has rarely happened to me to take up my pen without rendering homage to a country and government which are not popular among us.

after Occurrences 4%

I resume my pen after a sleepless night, and with an oppression of mind not to be described.

between Occurrences 4%

But when Pascal was seated before the white paper, with the pen between his fingers, a growing doubt, a feeling of dissatisfaction with himself, took possession of him.

before Occurrences 2%

The animals, however, must be sorted and penned before this, and the work would begin early in the morning.

Which preposition to use with  penning