Which preposition to use with purchases

of Occurrences 678%

| | | | There is hardly a township in the United States, but a | | person can, in a day or two, earn for himself a family | | machine, actually worth the price asked for itthe same as | | sold at, when purchased of Wilcox & Gibbs, the manufactures.

for Occurrences 204%

I therefore prevailed on my indulgent parent, with the aid of my mother's intercession, to purchase for me a neat country-seat near Huntingdon, which presented a beautiful view of the Sound, and where, surrounded by the scenes of my childhood, I promised myself to realise, with my Susanna, that life of tranquil felicity which fancy, warmed by love, so vividly depicts.

at Occurrences 203%

Dogs for teams can be purchased at nearly any of the line of Hudson Bay posts that form a chain of road-houses on the trip.

from Occurrences 174%

Returning to Ogallala I purchased from Bill Phant, an extensive cattle drover from Texas, a herd of cattle, which I drove to my ranch on the Dismal river, after which I bade my partner and the boys good-bye, and started for the Indian Territory to procure Indians for my Dramatic Combination for the season of 1878-79.

in Occurrences 160%

It is well perhaps to advise the traveller to supply himself with a small medicine box which can be purchased in Juneau, but it is not necessary if he enjoys good rugged health.

with Occurrences 89%

Going on, north from this, for a yojana, -hien arrived at the capital of Nagâra, the place where the Bodhisattva once purchased with money five stalks of flowers, as an offering to the Dipânkara Buddha.

on Occurrences 39%

And in the same way he cut broad roads through the new woods which he purchased on the plateau, in order to increase the means of communication and carry into effect his idea of using the clearings as pasture for his cattle, pending the time when he might largely devote himself to stock-raising.

by Occurrences 34%

Moreover, he made new and extraordinary "revelations,"that he had ascended into the seventh heaven and held converse with Gabriel; and he now added to his creed that old lie of Eastern theogonies, that base element of all false religions,that man can propitiate the Deity by works of supererogation; that man can purchase by ascetic labors and sacrifices his future salvation.

as Occurrences 23%

"Gentlemen, you are in error about the picture and the Duke; they are as they now appear;the one, an excellent copy, purchased as an original, no uncommon mistake; the other, a genuine highness.

to Occurrences 21%

Spenser uses it not unfrequently "Perdie, Sir Knight," said then the enchanter b'live, "That shall I shortly purchase to your bond.

without Occurrences 9%

He conceits nothing in learning but the opinion, which he seeks to purchase without it, though he might with less labour cure his ignorance than hide it.

under Occurrences 9%

Many who have not the ability to buy at present prices settle on those lands with the hope of acquiring from their cultivation the means of purchasing under preemption laws from time to time passed by Congress.

into Occurrences 6%

He had put his purchase into his pocket, and was about to go, when he found the child with the big loaf, whom he had supposed to be halfway home, standing stock-still behind him.

out Occurrences 6%

The original stock of buffalo in the Park have now been reduced to fifteen or twenty individuals, and the intention is to try to mix them with the score of buffalo which have been purchased out of the Flat Head Lake and Texas Panhandle herds.

among Occurrences 5%

She was purchased among the gang of negroes, known as the Hargreave's estate.

during Occurrences 4%

There are some very cheap and good library books, purchased during the last month, in Part VII.

than Occurrences 4%

"I disposed of a cornelian of no great price, which bore this conceit, to the wife of the emperor's ambassador, but conceiving there was no more in the purchase than some waywardness of fancy, I took no precaution to note the stone.

within Occurrences 3%

These payments, with those of the preceding five and a half years, have extinguished of the funded debt $25,500,000, being the whole which could be paid or purchased within the limits of the law and of our contracts, and have left us in the Treasury $8,500,000.

before Occurrences 3%

Her gaze was fixed on a hand-bag which Mrs. Holymead carrieda comparatively big hand-bag which the lady had taken the precaution to purchase before driving out to Riversbrook.

near Occurrences 2%

A pound in that age, as we have already observed, contained three times the weight of silver that it does at present; and the same weight of silver, by the most probable computation, would purchase near ten times more of the necessaries of life, though not in the same proportion of the finer manufactures.

like Occurrences 2%

The owner has to purchase like any other person.

through Occurrences 1%

" Francis died in 1547; and we do not know that any of Michelangelo's works passed directly into his hands, with the exception of the Leda, purchased through the agency of Luigi Alamanni, and the two Captives, presented by Ruberto Strozzi.

after Occurrences 1%

The customer, by declining to purchase after a certain hour, is able to release the weary saleswoman at six o'clock.

towards Occurrences 1%

The last event worthy of record which took place in the present year was the purchase towards the close of September of the Hôtel de Luxembourg by the Queen-Regent, for the sum of thirty thousand crowns, in order to erect upon its site the celebrated Palais d'Orléans, now once more known by its original name of the Luxembourg.

about Occurrences 1%

Shall we all become investors, speculators, or workers toiling our way to a new period of security, cheapness and low interest, a restoration of the park, the enclosure, the gold standard and the big automobile, with only this differencethat the minimum wage will be somewhere about two pounds, and that a five-pound note will purchase about as much as a couple of guineas would do in 1913?

Which preposition to use with  purchases