Which preposition to use with practice

of Occurrences 2691%

But whenever you become as populous as we are, and unite the knowledge of real happiness with the practice of virtue, you will understand it.

in Occurrences 762%

In like fashion, he, without changing his place, continued to scrutinize my features, but with the greatest caution; and, perhaps, having had much practice in amorous warfare, and knowing by what devices the longed-for prey might be captured, he showed himself every moment more humble, more desperate, and more fraught with tender yearning.

with Occurrences 181%

In pursuance, however, of a mode of treatment commended to their judgment, by frequent previous practice with the same patient, the good couple poured a pitcher of water over his fallen head; hauled him smartly up and down the room, first by a hand and then by a foot; singed his whiskers with a hot poker, held him head-downward for a time, and tried various other approved allopathic remedies.

for Occurrences 135%

We think it more than likely that it is simply GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN practicing for the next invasion of Great Britain.

at Occurrences 90%

Miss BARKALOW has been admitted to practice at the bar in St. Louis.

on Occurrences 82%

He was in honor bound to undeceive the kind-hearted and unwitting accomplice of the fraud practiced on herself as well as on him.

as Occurrences 63%

Have you got any story about it?" Mr. Penrose practiced as a solicitor in London, but lived in a little old house near the Irechesters' in the village street, and devoted his leisure to the antiquities and topography of the neighborhood; his lore was plentiful and curious, if not important.

to Occurrences 62%

The so-called dictatorship of the proletariat is reduced in practice to a military dictatorship of a communist group which represents only a fraction of the working classes and that not the best.

by Occurrences 47%

They therefore tested every dogma and practice by the words and deeds of the Prophet, his contemporaries, and the leaders of the Community in the first decades after Mohammed's death.

among Occurrences 47%

One of our corps of Philosophers (a trifle visionary, perhaps) has been speculating as to certain possible (or, perhaps, impossible) results flowing from the practice among publishers of ante-dating their monthly issues.

under Occurrences 32%

It has never subjected questions of faith and morals to popular vote nor has it determined discipline by parliamentary practice under a well developed party system, therefore it has preserved its unity, its integrity and its just standard of comparative values.

from Occurrences 28%

Yea, in such exigencies He doth exact this practice from us, as an instance of our religious confidence in Him, and as a service conducible to His glory.

during Occurrences 21%

It had been my practice during 1917 to call for returns from all commands of the number of hours that vessels of the destroyer and light cruiser type were actually under way per month, and these returns showed how heavy was the strain on the destroyers, particularly those engaged in convoy work.

without Occurrences 17%

It is activity without a body, practice without an end, and nothing develops from it of a constructive or expressive nature.

than Occurrences 16%

" To record past facts, as a basis for rational prevision in regard to the futurethe same sentiment which Thucydides mentions in his preface, as having animated him to the composition of his historywas at that time a duty so little understood that we have reason to admire not less the manner in which he performs it in practice than the distinctness with which he conceives it in theory.

before Occurrences 14%

So he rented a suite of two rooms on Central Park West, furnished them with what remained from better days, bought the necessary paraphernalia of his profession, and immured himself for practice before entering upon his contemplated invasion of Newport, Lenox, and Bar Harbor.

toward Occurrences 9%

Before they reached the Tuileries, La Fayette had obtained from the Assembly authority to place guards wherever he might think fit; and no jailer ever took more rigorous precautions for the safe-keeping of the most desperate criminals than this man of noble birth, but most ignoble heart, now practiced toward his king and queen.

against Occurrences 9%

The Lady Margaret, whom the King's friends called Juno, because she was to him as Juno was to Aeneas, stirring both heaven and hell to do him mischief, for a foundation of her particular practices against him, did continually, by all means possible, nourish, maintain, and divulge the flying opinion that Richard, Duke of York, second son to Edward IV, was not murdered in the Tower, as was given out, but saved alive.

amongst Occurrences 8%

He died early smitten by disease contracted during his gratuitous practice amongst the friendless poor.

out Occurrences 5%

It is the work of educated men and women to add their insight, their zeal for truth, their scholarship, their training and ideals to the Christian community: to sweep thought and practice out of ancient ruts, to clarify the spiritual vision of the world, and to present new aspects of truth and new goals of human endeavor!

between Occurrences 5%

The bad effects of three or four hundred years of such religion as has been taught and practiced between the Rio Grande and Cape Horn can't be got rid of in a hurry.

into Occurrences 4%

These acts, it has been remarked, "may be attributable more to heretical idolatrous practices into which the Jews had temporarily fallen in imitation of the heathen around them, but at the same time they furnish ample proof of the existence of tree and grove worship by the heathen nations of Syria as one of their most solemn rites."

throughout Occurrences 4%

In accordance with their practice throughout the war the London Press set an example to the world by refraining from publishing anything which would give information of the slightest value to the enemy.

about Occurrences 3%

In one, the cream is separated from the milk, and in that state it is converted into butter by churning, as is the practice about Epping; in the other, milk is subjected to the same process, which is the method usually followed in Cheshire.

like Occurrences 3%

That's how these big consulting practices like Jeeves's grow.

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