Which preposition to use with questionings

of Occurrences 47%

The voices of Dante, Milton, Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Browning sweep the soul upward to spiritual heights, and answer some of the deepest questionings of the soul of man.

in Occurrences 11%

She dared not face the ghastly questioning in Merry's meek eye.

by Occurrences 4%

The same farmer, in response to anxious questioning by Dab, informed him, "Fish?

as Occurrences 4%

All this I thought over a little sadly, as I sat at home that night; and not without some self-questioning as to my own place in the world.

about Occurrences 3%

" I now saw that continuous questioning about Miss Caroline would bring one in time to madness, and I was glad of my resolve never again to indulge in this unprofitable occupation.

with Occurrences 2%

The boy remembered that his mother had not said much about her husband, answering Lorry's childish questionings with a promise to tell him some day.

at Occurrences 2%

Once Dave sighed, so pronouncedly that Belle shot a quick look of questioning at him.

for Occurrences 2%

The disguised thieves persisted in their questioning for some time in spite of the house master's repeated advice that they had better search elsewhere.

on Occurrences 2%

The man was perjuring himself, under his own counsel's persistent questioning on a point which that counsel had evidently been warned by him to avoid.

into Occurrences 1%

His intense individuality, eager always, as his best critic has said, "to find a North-West passage of his own," pressed its curious and sceptical questioning into every corner of love and life and religion, explored unsuspected depths, exploited new discovered paradoxes, and turned its discoveries always into poetry of the closely-packed artificial style which was all its own.

like Occurrences 1%

We ask this of you, our reader, and not of Maggie Miller, for to her there came no questioning like this.

between Occurrences 1%

And truly she to kiss me in turn; and to make her questionings between her kissings; and this to be because she did yearn for a greater knowing of the Country; but also, as I do half to think, because she did be sweetly impudent unto me; and this to be of her joy.

among Occurrences 1%

This obedience on the part of the wife, concerning which there is oftentimes much serious questioning among ladies old and young, while yet unmarried, is thus finely defined by Jeremy Taylor:"It is a voluntary cession that is required; such a cession as must be without coercion and violence on his part, but upon fair inducements and reasonableness in the thing, and out of love and honour on her part.

than Occurrences 1%

I doubt whether any one who has dealt with affairs ever made up his mind with more painful questionings than Lord Morley.

from Occurrences 1%

As soon as we had taken off our wraps, she explained her departure from the hotel without any questioning from us.

Which preposition to use with  questionings