Which preposition to use with quit

of Occurrences 112%

However, this is as may be; but, on that night in particular, I would gladly have been quit of so many eerie noises.

for Occurrences 33%

"For all that, you got a nasty knock, and your quitting for a time is justified.

in Occurrences 22%

Desert refers to leaving or quitting in violation of obligation, duty, or oath.

at Occurrences 16%

He was, however, so dissatisfied with their work that he effaced all that they did, and, without any assistance, if we are to believe his biographer, even grinding his own colors, he shut himself up in the chapel, beginning at dawn, quitting at nightfall, often sleeping in his clothes on the scaffolding, allowing himself but a slight repast at the end of the day, and letting no one see the works he had begun.

with Occurrences 13%

"Oh my!" gasped Diggory, "we've taken a fine rise out of the Philistines; they can't say we're not quits with them now!"

on Occurrences 9%

One car quit on the hill-top, so I suppose it broke down, but its occupants must have seen Jeremy careering up and down the line encouraging those sulky Arabs to get a move on, and I suppose they told tales afterwards to a newspaper correspondent at the base.

before Occurrences 3%

Don't you know the saying, 'Rain before seven, quit before eleven?'

to Occurrences 3%

He was very respectful and gentle in alluding to the battle, and said, ingenuously, pointing to the plateau jutting out from the Bull Run Mountains: "At two o'clock on Sunday we would have cried quits to McDowell to hold his ground and let us alone.

from Occurrences 3%

We felt, I believe, after a moment's strange shuddering, that the reunion was well accomplished; although the true-hearted son of Admiral Burney, who had known and loved the pair we quitted from a child, and who had been among the dearest objects of existence to him, refused to be comforted.

like Occurrences 2%

On reaching the bright and gay scene of the piazza, which contrasted with the gloomy court he had just quitted like morning with night, he saw the utter fruitlessness of further pursuit.

over Occurrences 2%

Finally, despite the lateness of the hour, he walked back in some excitement to the house he had quitted over half an hour before with the intention of speaking to the invalid concerning a duty peculiarly incumbent upon elderly men of means.

by Occurrences 1%

At last, not seeing the shark's fin above the water, I made a sign to Charles, that cost what it might, we must swim for it, for we had notice to quit by the tide; and if we did not depart, should soon have an execution in the house.

after Occurrences 1%

He was a sheriff in L.A.; he quit after the Watts riots.

through Occurrences 1%

They brought her back in triumph to the world she had quitted through a species of "frivolity," so they called it, of which she was never again guilty as long as she lived.

as Occurrences 1%

Rajan Narayan, my trusted senior colleague, days before the oHeraldo could hit the newsstands, showed my letter to him on the editorial team standing as one and quitting as one if need arose and convinced the Patrao that here was a snake already scheming to kill the newspaper before it was even born!

under Occurrences 1%

" Some fifteen minutes afterwards, Merton, accompanied by Marston and his son Charles, entered the hall of the mansion which, not ten weeks before, he had quitted under circumstances so guilty and terrible.

until Occurrences 1%

Of course, the man never dreamed of quitting until legal closing hour, and when he got home, if wife objected, why he just hit her a clip,it was, of course, for her good,"a woman, a dog, and a walnut tree,"you know the adage.

uv Occurrences 1%

I think Stephen Lee's well quit uv ye, fur my part, ef he hed to die ter du it.

about Occurrences 1%

and how great were those which occurred during the interval of my passage from Ceylon last year, which island I quitted about the time that we received in that part of the world intelligence of the battle of Leipsic!

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