Which preposition to use with pitiless

to Occurrences 6%

"I would be pitiless to all such men," said De Chauxville.

in Occurrences 5%

The letter was full of love; but it was, nevertheless, hard and pitiless in its tone.

as Occurrences 3%

That the laws which nature has fixed for our lives are mighty and eternal, Wordsworth comprehended as fully as Goethe, but not that they are laws pitiless as iron.

than Occurrences 3%

Now, at sunset, a dull red tint was slowly stealing over the west; but the gray cloud was too thick for the sun to pierce, and the struggle of the crimson color with the unyielding sky only made the heavens look more stern and pitiless than before.

towards Occurrences 2%

He was a strict and stern warrior, unscrupulous and pitiless towards his enemies, especially towards such as he despised, severe in regard to himself, dignified in his manners, never guilty of swearing himself and punishing swearing as a breach of discipline amongst the troops placed under his orders.

of Occurrences 2%

And so he slept, and in his sleep Death stood by his bedside, a glorious Angel, strong, spotless, beautiful, but unlike every other angel, stern, unsmiling, pitiless of aspect.

at Occurrences 1%

But the storms which had been so pitiless at the mountain camps followed the unprotected refugees with seemingly fiendish fury.

about Occurrences 1%

There was something pitiless about the moon.

Which preposition to use with  pitiless