Which preposition to use with prolix

in Occurrences 5%

Read the sonnet, if you please;it is Wordsworth all over,trivial in subject, solemn in style, vivid in description, prolix in detail, true metaphysically, but immensely suggestive of "imagination," to use a mild term, when related as an actual fact of a sprightly youngster.

than Occurrences 3%

I have put all this more briefly than if I were discussing this matter by itself; (for this topic is a very extensive one, concerning the use and nature of words;) but still I have been more prolix than the plan I originally proposed to myself required.

on Occurrences 2%

I have been rather prolix on the subject of knightly honor, but I had good reason for being so, because the Augean stable of moral and intellectual enormity in this world can be cleaned out only with the besom of philosophy.

about Occurrences 1%

He did not wish to be prolix about it.

over Occurrences 1%

I must be excused if I am almost prolix over the events of a day memorable to me.

for Occurrences 1%

"One thing Billy said," he added, waxing unusually prolix for him, "was truer than maybe he knew.

to Occurrences 1%

We find a writer of this kind sometimes writing in a dithyrambic style, as if he were intoxicated; at other times, nay, on the very next page, he will be high-sounding, severe, and deeply learned, prolix to the last degree of dulness, and cutting everything very small, like the late Christian Wolf, only in a modern garment.

Which preposition to use with  prolix