Which preposition to use with readings

of Occurrences 903%

The reading of the passage is uncertain; "sister" is only a conjecture, and it is hard to see why his sister should be mentioned.

in Occurrences 361%

Also, it is recorded in the life of Beau Nash that the persons of fashion of his time, to pass a tedious morning "did divert themselves with reading in the booksellers' shops."

for Occurrences 140%

I have wished to make these Tales easy reading for very young children.

on Occurrences 85%

It was immediately carried up to the house of lords, where it was read for the first time on the 17th of February; and ordered a second reading on the twenty-second.

from Occurrences 76%

But it is certain that they resembled the services of the Jewish synagogue in the readings from Scripture, psalm-singing and prayers, and differed from those services by having readings from the Gospels, the Epistles, and from non-canonical books, such as the Epistle of St. Clement.

IN Occurrences 64%

NEW READINGS IN BIOGRAPHY I.Timon of Athens No, it was not true that Timon was dead, and buried on the sea-shore.

by Occurrences 50%

Yet so resolute was he in his desire for education that, though he was not even allowed a candle after the elders went to bed, he would sit up till late at night reading by the glow of the embers.

at Occurrences 48%

But the habit of reading at the open stalls was not only with the poor.

TO Occurrences 27%

[Illustration: CHARLES DICKENS READING TO HIS DAUGHTERS, 1863.

with Occurrences 25%

They note, too, that the reading with the eye merely, is a habit which readers bring from the reading of other books to their reading of the Breviary.

for Occurrences 15%

Century Readings for a Course in English Literature.

WITH Occurrences 10%

SUGGESTED READINGS WITH QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

as Occurrences 10%

In the Psychology and Physiology of Reading[30] strong arguments are adduced against early reading as very injurious to eyesight, so it is surprising that Dr. Montessori begins so soon.

without Occurrences 9%

"The editorial articles to which you refer are considered the very drought of journalism; those by Mr. GREELEY, especially, being so dry that they are positively dangerous reading without a tumbler of water.

on Occurrences 7%

FRYER, WILLIAM T. Readings on personal property.

than Occurrences 6%

To say truth, the poor plagiary was very unlucky to fall into my hands; that author being no longer in fashion, would have escaped any one of less universal reading than myself.

before Occurrences 6%

19, 24), though he also had the right reading before him, boldly accuses the Valentinians of a falsification, and lays stress upon the reading which he adopts as proof of the veritable birth of Christ from a virgin.

within Occurrences 3%

The colonel made a book of his Stapyltonian researches which he vaingloriously proclaimed to be the stupidest reading within the ample field of uninteresting printed English.

during Occurrences 3%

Even the reading during the dog watch was intermittedat least it was on such days as I happened to be in the watch below.

from Occurrences 3%

Character Readings from George Eliot, selected and arranged by Nathan Sheppard.

between Occurrences 2%

Letters from the Western front continue cheerful, but it does not need much reading between the lines to realise the odds with which our officers and men have to contend, the endless discomfort and unending din.

along Occurrences 2%

v. 4, 5, Tertullian has preserved what is probably the right reading along with b alone, the other copies of the Old Latin (all except the revised f) with the Curetonian Syriac having gone wrong.

INTO Occurrences 2%

ANY CONCOCTED HIS READING INTO JUDGEMENT AS HE DID.

about Occurrences 1%

Sometimes they would creep under the tulip-tree, and would sit there with their arms round one another's necks, and their soft cheeks touching, a-reading about the Prince and the Dragon, and the good and bad enchanters, and the king's fair daughter.

beyond Occurrences 1%

This necessity, my lords, I am not ashamed to assert after him; nor can I think it consistent with common prudence, in the present situation of our affairs, to defer the third reading beyond to-morrow; for the supplies which this bill must produce, are to be employed in attempts of the utmost importance, and which cannot fail without the ruin of a great part of mankind, and an irreparable injury to this nation.

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