Which preposition to use with proffer

of Occurrences 31%

Gray Stoddard had gone directly to Lydia Sessions, with his proffers of books, and his suggestions for Johnnie.

to Occurrences 21%

When Stoddard's presence and help had been proffered to herself, Johnnie had not failed to find a gracious way of declining or avoiding; but you cannot reprove a sick mana dying man.

with Occurrences 6%

Some of the by-standers wished to beg a few of what he seemed to value so lightly, and others offered to give him bread or clothes in exchange for his nails, but he obstinately resisted all their applications; in fact, little heeding them, although he was almost naked, had a starved, haggard appearance, and evidently regarded the food they proffered with a wishful eye.

in Occurrences 6%

To unveil every suspicious act of the British Government, to keep public opinion aroused, to maintain, in fine, that noble moral agitation which makes the success of good causes and the safety of free nations, such is the mission proffered in England to the defenders of humanity and the Gospel.

for Occurrences 5%

It is to be borne in mind that the definitions here given do not pivot on the specific illustrations proffered for their explanation.

on Occurrences 2%

The Sovereign had done me the unusual, but not wholly unprecedented, favour of selecting half a dozen of the fairest maidens of those waiting their fate in the Nurseries of his empire; had proffered on my behoof terms which satisfied their ambition, gratified their vanity, and would have induced them to accept any suitor so recommended, without the insignificant formality of a personal courtship.

as Occurrences 2%

The fashioning spirit, working upwards from the clod to man, proffers as its last, highest essay, the brain of man.

against Occurrences 1%

His enemies made use of this to his prejudice at the court of Spain, which was always jealous of him, and listened therefore with much complacency to every complaint that was proffered against him.

at Occurrences 1%

"As this felicitation was proffered at the precise moment when I was engaged in staunching a rent in my cheek with a handful of my wife's hair, I was constrained to regard it as unseasonable, and expressed myself to that effect.

toward Occurrences 1%

But there is as much of the reasonable as of to us the marvelous in that which alone has ever made credible proffer toward the filling of the gulf whence issue all the groans of humanity.

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