Which preposition to use with play

with Occurrences 2074%

At heart we worship the man who will not lie; who will not use conventions or formulas in which he does not believe; who does not give us a second-hand view of either life or God; who does not play with our conscience because it is not politic to be too direct; who does not juggle with our doubts, nor ignore our hopes and powers; who also frankly acknowledges that he, too, is a man.

in Occurrences 1559%

Yet this is the man designated by Blount, who re-published his plays in 1632, as the 'only rare poet of that time, the witie, comicall, facetiously-quicke, and unparallel'd John Lylie, Master of Arts!'

of Occurrences 1418%

It was quite a different public from what one saw anywhere else, many students of both sexes carrying books, small easels, and campstools,some of the men such evident Bohemians, with long hair, sweeping moustache, and soft felt hat,quite the type one sees in the pictures or plays of "La Vie de Boheme."

at Occurrences 831%

He had come over to Paris to hear one of his symphonies played at the Conservatoire, and was very much pleased with the way it had been received by that very critical audience.

on Occurrences 803%

He guyed the men in his indolent fashion, playing on their credulity, their good nature, even their forbearance.

for Occurrences 734%

He then bit his lips with vexation, and challenged one of the bystanders to play for a smaller stake.

by Occurrences 261%

In others straight lines of the ordinary stalactite forms are combined with reference to size and tone in a regularly graduated system like the strings of a harp with musical tones corresponding thereto; and on these stone harps we played by striking the crystal strings with a stick.

to Occurrences 234%

It was too much for Cooke, after having so frequently disappointed full houses, to be obliged to play to an empty theatre.

about Occurrences 208%

Children were playing about in the alleys and broad, open spaces, and climbing on the fountains when the keepers of the garden were not anywhere

into Occurrences 128%

At Miss Selene Coblenz's engagement reception, an event properly festooned with smilax and properly jostled with the elbowing figures of waiters tilting their plates of dark-meat chicken salad, two olives, and a finger-roll in among the crowd, a stringed three-piece orchestra, faintly seen and still more faintly heard, played into the babel.

from Occurrences 106%

Devore began the fifth with a hit, but Doyle flied to short, and Devore was doubled off first in a play from right field.

as Occurrences 99%

The old system of dribbling and headlong rushes was being abandoned in favour of the passing game, and forwards were learning to keep their places, and to play as a whole instead of as individuals.

around Occurrences 78%

Still I never see an old man, seated in his great arm chair, with his grandchildren playing around him, smoking his pipe and enjoying its, to him, pleasant perfume, its soothing influences, without regarding that same pipe as an institution which I would hardly be willing to banish entirely from the world.

like Occurrences 69%

You must play like gentlemen, and there must be no wrangling or disputing.

over Occurrences 61%

Seymour had so regulated the stream that, in place of the gush and foam of a few minutes before, there was now only a scant and gently falling veil of water playing over the bright gravel caught in the riffle-lined bottoms of the boxes.

before Occurrences 59%

But hark ye, Mr. Gingle, is it proper to play before the Wedding? Gin.

against Occurrences 54%

I may go into the district to the east and watch the children play against the curb.

without Occurrences 46%

Viewed from the very strict standpoint that all Base Ball games should be played without mistake or blunder this world's series may be said to have been inartistic, but it is only the hypercritical theorist who would take such a cold-blooded view of the series.

under Occurrences 39%

By the way this game was played under very adverse conditions so far as the weather was concerned.

through Occurrences 39%

"I think that the scheduled programme should be played through irrespective of the results of the respective games, and any extra playing or playing-off should be done after the originally set schedule is completed.

among Occurrences 34%

The linnets play among the leaves At hide-and-seek, and chirp and sing; While, flashing to and from the eaves, The swallows twitter on the wing.

than Occurrences 23%

Young people work a great deal harder racing about in their play than at anything they have to do in a spooling roomI'm sure my nieces and nephews do.

between Occurrences 19%

Very likely the American boys were somewhat disappointed in not being able to play between themselves, as anticipated, and perhaps I should not have pushed our game ahead, but as long as there was a Base Ball team in Sweden, it would have been strange if it had not played, and it gave our boys a chance to see how the game should be played, and they certainly did take it in.

within Occurrences 16%

He is said to have remained on the stage for the extraordinary period of sixty-five years, and to have played within a few months of his death.

during Occurrences 14%

I had spent the past summer, as many preceding ones, exploring the glaciers that lie on the head waters of the San Joaquin, Tuolumne, Merced, and Owen's rivers; measuring and studying their movements, trends, crevasses, moraines, etc., and the part they had played during the period of their greater extension in the creation and development of the landscapes of this alpine wonderland.

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