Which preposition to use with regularity

of Occurrences 183%

"Why, FLORA precious?" "Oh, because he's so absurdly fastidious, you know, about regularity of features in women.

in Occurrences 38%

The inhabitants of the moon have not the same regularity in their meals, or time for sleep, as we have, but consult their appetites and inclinations like other animals.

with Occurrences 18%

The regularity with which Egan of Cincinnati performed for the Reds earned him a place as the banner second baseman.

to Occurrences 11%

Yet, difficult as nature herself seems to have reduced the task of regularity to genius, it is the supreme consolation of dullness, to seize upon those excesses, which are the overflowings of faculties they never enjoyed."

as Occurrences 7%

Regularity as to the time of going to rest is the chief point to attend to; permit nothing to interfere with it, and then only let the child sleep without disturbance, until it awakes of its own accord on the following morning, and it will have had sufficient rest.

on Occurrences 6%

He was so alarmed that he could not even preserve any regularity on the retreat, and all was confusion and panic.

from Occurrences 5%

M. de Wolmar is, above all things, a man of system; the life of the establishment moves with ordered regularity from the year's beginning to its end.

by Occurrences 4%

In 1788, a mint was erected at Soho, to be worked by the steam engine; from the rolling of the copper into sheets, afterwards passing it through steel, polished rollers, and then cutting out the blanks; all which was performed with the greatest ease and regularity by girls, instead of employing able men.

than Occurrences 3%

The Georgia bill came up, as it does every day with much more regularity than luncheon.

for Occurrences 3%

I now ceased from the exercise which I had followed with such regularity for five years, namely that of daily writing Latin.

about Occurrences 2%

" There is a suspicious regularity about this schedule.

at Occurrences 2%

We cannot, in estimating the character of an individual, leave out of our consideration his conduct in the most important of all human relations; and if in that relation we find him to have been selfish, cruel, and deceitful, we shall take the liberty to call him a bad man, in spite of all his temperance at table, and all his regularity at chapel.

like Occurrences 2%

Even in those alternations of good and bad trade, which spell so much unemployment and misery, there is discernible a rhythmic regularity like that of the process of the seasons, or the ebb and flow of the tide.

against Occurrences 1%

The view of this headland was of a very impressive and remarkable character, and to add to the usual effect of its lonely and solitary grandeur, a heavy sea still vexed and swelling from the turbulence of the recent gale, was breaking in monotonous regularity against its white and aged face; rising a thousand feet precipitously above the level of the sea, and terminating in a peak, rendered yet more conspicuous by a deep gap behind it.

amid Occurrences 1%

Meals were taken with punctual regularity amid a cleanliness that was almost painful.

during Occurrences 1%

"The food is moved along the alimentary canal, from the stomach downward, by successive contractions of the muscular walls of the intestines, known as peristaltic movements, which occur with great regularity during digestion.

through Occurrences 1%

Later, in her worst loneliness she refused that ardent Mr. Taylor, who courted her by the novel means of newspapers sent with violent and unremitting regularity through the post.

around Occurrences 1%

There was nothing of special interest as concerning Byron until we entered the original old monkish garden, which is still laid out in the same fashion as the monks left it, with a large oblong piece of water in the center, and terraced banks rising at two or three different stages with perfect regularity around it; so that the sheet of water looks like the plate of an immense looking-glass, of which the terraces form the frame.

towards Occurrences 1%

Descending the hill beyond, on the road to Rodez, I passed a very strange-looking spot where huge flat blocks of bare gneiss, laid together as though giants of the Titanic age had here been trying to pave the world, sloped with extraordinary regularity towards the highway.

under Occurrences 1%

These remarkable changes are mainly due to the conditions of their natures, because they persist with more or less regularity under altered circumstances.

up Occurrences 1%

The flower garden was a vegetable garden now, and the artichokes and the cabbages and the broccoli were planted with mathematical regularity up to the very walls.

among Occurrences 1%

They might be fancied to have grown up, just as the spires of a tuft of grass do, at the same time that they have a law of propriety and regularity among themselves.

Which preposition to use with  regularity