Which preposition to use with regulars

in Occurrences 87%

Yet so simple and massive is the topography of the State in general views, that the main central portion displays only one valley, and two chains of mountains which seem almost perfectly regular in trend and height: the Coast Range on the west side, the Sierra Nevada on the east.

as Occurrences 44%

The main lateral moraines that bounded the view on either hand are from 100 to nearly 200 feet high, and about as regular as artificial embankments, and covered with a superb growth of Silver Fir and Pine.

of Occurrences 17%

When I first saw this central garden, the most extensive and regular of all the bee-pastures of the State, it seemed all one sheet of plant gold, hazy and vanishing in the distance, distinct as a new map along the foot-hills at my feet.

than Occurrences 11%

Much time should elapse before he is permitted to go abroad, upon the green grass;not lest the air should reach him, or the sun shine upon his face and hands, but because the surface of the ground is so much less firm and regular than the floor, that he ought to be quite familiar with walking on the latter, in the first place.

for Occurrences 10%

They were too faultily faultless, too icily regular for my taste.

with Occurrences 9%

But he's as good and kind a gentleman as ever stepped, and always regular with his rent every Monday morning.

at Occurrences 9%

I am Chaplain to an honourable Family, very regular at the Hours of Devotion, and I hope of an unblameable life: but, for not offering to rise at the Second Course, I found my Patron and his Lady very sullen and out of humour; though, at first, I did not know the reason of it.

on Occurrences 8%

He was barely in time to see the cavalry of 'Jeb' Stuart charge the regulars on the Warrenton road.

under Occurrences 5%

A few days later, a company of regulars under Captain Mackay joined us, together with near a hundred men of the regiment who had remained behind with Colonel Fry, raising our numbers to four hundred men, though many were wasted with fever and dysentery.

to Occurrences 4%

But the Parthenon, so regular to the eye with its vertical, oblique, and horizontal lines, was curved in every line, with the exception of the gable,with its entablature, architrave, frieze, and cornice, together with the basement, all arched upwards; and even the columns had a slight convexity of vertical line, amounting to 1/550 of the entire height of shaft, though so slightly as not to be perceptible.

from Occurrences 3%

That big body of French regulars from Canada hasn't comewe know thatand there isn't force enough in Duquesne to withstand us.

between Occurrences 2%

At 10 hours 40 minutes we were about a mile and a half from a reef which was dry for more than a mile in extent, and nearer to us was a patch of breakers: in standing towards these shoals our soundings had been regular between nine and ten fathoms; but at this time they unexpectedly shoaled at one cast, from eight to three fathoms: the course was altered in time to prevent the cutter's striking.

in Occurrences 1%

The Regulars in Indian Warfare.

around Occurrences 1%

The conduct of the colored volunteers has been harshly criticised, and it is thought by some that the conduct of the volunteers has had some influence in derrogation of the good record made by the regulars around Santiago.

by Occurrences 1%

There was money coming in regular by then, and there was siller piling up in the bank.

into Occurrences 1%

Does he sing with peculiar modulations from the regular into a falsetto voice?

like Occurrences 1%

The sound is quite faint, but it is regular like the beating of a pulse.

near Occurrences 1%

North-west, or seabreezes, were regular near the changes of the moon, and of greater duration.

out Occurrences 1%

I mention this, because I am persuaded that if gentlemen of their profession knew, and would reflect, how much more comfortable they make their own quarters by a sober, orderly, and obliging conduct, they would be regular out of mere self love, if they were not influenced, as I heartily wish they may always be, by a nobler principle.

per Occurrences 1%

Negotiating matches, making proposals, and arranging marriages, are affairs confided to the prudence and mediation of certain busy old ladies, who find their account in bringing about weddings, since they receive a regular per centage upon them.

within Occurrences 1%

There were five companies of regulars within reach, available for this service.

about Occurrences 1%

As everything was regular about the register, manifest and clearance, I could see that Monsieur Gallois was not in a particularly good humour.

Which preposition to use with  regulars