Which preposition to use with relief

of Occurrences 643%

My visits to the hermitage were frequently renewed at first, because they afforded me the relief of variety, whilst his intimate knowledge of men and thingshis remarkable sagacity and good sensehis air of mingled piety and benignity,cheated me into forgetfulness of my situation.

to Occurrences 382%

It was obviously an immense relief to her when some lady of the official world came in, whom she had known before.

from Occurrences 328%

Then, penetrate the wilderness where you may, the main telling features, to which all the surrounding topography is subordinate, are quickly perceived, and the most complicated clusters of peaks stand revealed harmoniously correlated and fashioned like works of arteloquent monuments of the ancient ice-rivers that brought them into relief from the general mass of the range.

in Occurrences 295%

He prescribed for the sick, and often provided the medicine they requiredexpounded the lawadjusted disputesmade all their little arithmetical calculationsgave them moral instructionand, when he could not afford them relief in their difficulties, he taught them patience, and gave them consolation.

at Occurrences 77%

It was safe, and in my relief at finding it, I knocked off the head of the bottle and took a long drink.

for Occurrences 73%

It is among the most gracious ordinances of Providence, that man is sure to find the most powerful relief for his own particular afflictions, in his endeavours to alleviate the sufferings of others.

against Occurrences 57%

The form of the horse, cut out in black relief against the sky, was weird and ghostlike.

on Occurrences 50%

" Miss Fewbanks heaved a sigh of relief on learning the fate of the letters.

by Occurrences 45%

It was a strange sort of mealthe candle-lit kitchen, the hastily set table, the faces of the girls and Mrs. Gilligan brought out in bold relief by the flickering candle light.

with Occurrences 26%

Others keeping near the ground glided behind separate groves, and brought them forward into relief with admirable distinctness; or, passing in front, eclipsed whole groves in succession, pine after pine melting in their gray fringes and bursting forth again seemingly clearer than before.

after Occurrences 21%

I felt better as I got more accustomed to the place, or perhaps it was the sensation of relief after that moment of indescribable pain.

into Occurrences 6%

In his accumulated sorrows Cicero now plunged for relief into literary labors.

during Occurrences 6%

Thus the inhabitants of very hot countries seek relief during the hottest part of the day by a siesta.

as Occurrences 6%

He called to the surgeons to cut deeper when performing a painful operation, and shortly before his death inflicted such wounds upon himself in hopes of obtaining relief as, very erroneously, to suggest the idea of suicide.

under Occurrences 6%

Thou hast done some bishoping in thy time, peradventure?" Euschemon energetically protested that he had been on earth but a simple laic, which was indeed the fact, and was also the reason why Eulogius and Eucherius despised him, but which, though he did not think it needful to tell the demon, he found a singular relief under present circumstances.

through Occurrences 6%

In vain the British Government was called upon to give relief through Parliament, until, in the autumn of 1846, parliamentary authority was obtained to grant baronial loans.

over Occurrences 5%

" Kate fairly hated herself for the passing thrill of relief over the timely illness that had intervened to expedite her mission.

than Occurrences 5%

In the second room I have marked particularly Nos. 21, 28, and 31, by Luca, 28 being a deeper relief than usual, and the Madonna not adoring but holding and delighting in one of the most adorable of Babies.

out Occurrences 4%

But no mishap occurred, and after being challenged by a watchman they at last found themselves to their great relief out in the open country.

without Occurrences 2%

Moreover, we can gain this relief without any such violent transition as occurs in a dream, when we rid ourselves of its terrors only by the act of awaking.

along Occurrences 2%

The Douglas Spruces, with long sprays drawn out in level tresses, and needles massed in a gray, shimmering glow, presented a most striking appearance as they stood in bold relief along the hilltops.

before Occurrences 2%

They could entertain no hope of relief before reaching the Oakover, for the discoverer of that river, Frank Gregory, a man always reluctant to acknowledge defeat, had been turned from the southward attempt by this very desert across which they were painfully toiling.

like Occurrences 2%

These shallow-soiled meadows are oftentimes still further roughened and diversified by partially buried moraines and swelling bosses of the bed-rock, which, with the trees and shrubs growing upon them, produce a striking effect as they stand in relief like islands in the grassy level, or sweep across in rugged curves from one forest wall to the other.

unto Occurrences 2%

I fain had thought The healing herb that Sir Gawain had found With wisest skill and bravest deed might bring Some quick and sure relief unto the King.

beneath Occurrences 1%

She lay down at length with a vague sense of physical relief beneath her crushing weight of trouble.

Which preposition to use with  relief