Which preposition to use with rave
There's no doubt the poor child is absolutely raving about me.
Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret; I never answeredI was not in debt.
They cast me out and left me upon the wild without a shelter, without a companion, storming and raving at them as they did at me.
She laughed and turned again to the contemplation of the room; on the high mantel was a yellow pitcher, that her grandmother knew was a hundred years old, and in the centre of the mantel were arranged a sugar bowl and a vinegar cruet that Miss Prudence had coaxed away from the old lady; her city friends would rave over them, she said.
But suddenly old Will threw up his arms and toppled backward, still raving like a demon, but unable to move his body from the waist downward.
At the end of this yoke is a round iron projection, made to fit into a socket in the upper rave of the boat.
He raved against idolaters of the Kirk and of the Bible, and against all preachers who, by his way of it, had perverted the Word.
If the hideous outcry slackened, but an instant, you heard the sick man raving with the preternatural strength of delirium, or of mad resentment.
The spirit of slavery raves under tormenting gnawings, and casts about in blind phrenzy for something to ease, or even to mock them.
'One heard everybody in the street raving on the wonders of that speech; for my part, I cannot believe it was so supernatural as they say.'
Valleriola, lib. 2. observ. 7, hath a lamentable narration of a merchant, his patient, "that raving through impatience of love, had he not been watched, would every while have offered violence to himself."
Better to die, better to rave for love, Than to recover with sick sneering heart.
In less than two minutes I shall cease to talk to you, and you may rave to the Great Wall of China.
Madness is therefore defined to be a vehement dotage; or raving without a fever, far more violent than melancholy, full of anger and clamour, horrible looks, actions, gestures, troubling the patients with far greater vehemency both of body and mind, without all fear and sorrow, with such impetuous force and boldness, that sometimes three or four men cannot hold them.
He had again become delirious, and raved as before about coffins, corpses, graves, and other loathsome matters.
She sat rigid, her teeth set, her eyes closed, until her real self got some control over the monstrous, crazy creature raving within her.
He folded her in his arms and held her there, thirty yards away from the precipice, safely sheltered against his breast, while the wind raved round them, blowing her hair from the broad, white brow, and showing him that noble forehead in all its power and beauty; while the darkness deepened round them so that they could see hardly anything except each other's eyes.
Hushed is their song; from long-frequented grove, Pale Memory, are thy bright-eyed daughters gone; No more in strains of melody and love, Gush forth thy sacred waters, Helicon; Prostrate on Egypt's plain, Aurora's son, God of the sunbeam and the living lyre, No more shall hail thee with mellifluous tone; Nor shall thy Pythia, raving from thy fire, Speak of the future sooth to those who would inquire.
I could only rave by my motions, lift up my eyes, spread my hands, rub my face, pull my wig, and look like a fool.
But if in this calm vale thou canst abide With me, and bid earth's pomps and pride adieu, Then is the goal of my ambition won; And the rough tide of the tempestuous world May dash and rave around these firm-set hills!
He raved along the edge of the pond, snarling at the uneasy water under which Broken Tooth had disappeared.
The long Strath lay Snow-wreathed and pathless, and from day to day The tempests raved across the low'ring skies, And they grew weak and pale, with hollow eyes,
By some miracle of good luck, or as a result of some unsuspected power of resistance, he finally came raving into the Crooked River Road-house.