Which preposition to use with rigours

of Occurrences 117%

Both these coasts are at this time thinly inhabited by a rude and miserable people, whose whole time is spent in struggling against the rigours of their dreary climate, and the scantiness of its productions.

against Occurrences 5%

He confined her, during the remainder of her life, in a monastery at Winchester, but carried his rigour against her no farther.

with Occurrences 4%

We have too great opinion of our own worth, that we can satisfy the law: and do more than is required at our hands, by performing those evangelical counsels, and such works of supererogation, merit for others, which Bellarmine, Gregory de Valentia, all their Jesuits and champions defend, that if God should deal in rigour with them, some of their Franciscans and Dominicans are so pure, that nothing could be objected to them.

of Occurrences 3%

New Insurrections.-New Rigours of the Government.

for Occurrences 3%

This movement, which lasted in all its rigour for several months, caused the ruin of hundreds of small Greek and Armenian tradesmen....

in Occurrences 3%

" This, coming from one who was habitually reticent about his religious experiences, may be held as proving that there was no want of rigour in the process, no withholding of any part of the structure from the strain.

than Occurrences 2%

Far from being discouraged by the opposition offered to their decrees, the city authorities enforced them with greater rigour than ever, and, doubling the number of the watch, again shut up all those houses which had been broken open during the late tumult.

to Occurrences 1%

Thou know'st those arts, which blast with envious praise, Which aggravate a fault, with feign'd excuses, And drive discountenanc'd virtue from the throne; That leave the blame of rigour to the prince, And of his ev'ry gift usurp the merit; That hide, in seeming zeal, a wicked purpose, And only build upon another's ruin.

towards Occurrences 1%

Philip was engaged in a strict alliance with the emperor his competitor; Richard was disgusted by his rigours towards the queen-dowager, whom the Sicilian prince had confined in Palermo, because she had opposed with all her interest his succession to the crown.

on Occurrences 1%

During the Middle Ages, human life was generally held in small respect; various judicial institutionsif not altogether secret, at least more or less enveloped in mysterywere remarkable for being founded on the monstrous right of issuing the most severe sentences with closed doors, and of executing these sentences with inflexible rigour on individuals who had not been allowed the slightest chance of defending themselves.

by Occurrences 1%

But Alfred took care to temper these rigours by other institutions favourable to the freedom of the citizens; and nothing could be more popular and liberal than his plan for the administration of justice.

Which preposition to use with  rigours