Which preposition to use with sadness

of Occurrences 134%

Russia, sadness of people of; Distance between princes and ordinary mortals in; pains taken to give ambassadors a pleasant impression of.

in Occurrences 84%

The boy smiles at you from the canvas, smiles ambiguously,smiles with a woman's mouth, set above a resolute chin, however,and with a sort of humorous sadness in his eyes.

on Occurrences 20%

The sadness on their adversary's face did not depart.

at Occurrences 15%

What is so sad is that they totally lack remorse for their victims' pain and suffering and give not the slightest thought to the victims' families left behind in utter and complete desolation and sadness at their terrible loss.

for Occurrences 12%

Each man has within himself a future of joy or sadness for the race.

to Occurrences 9%

The expression of his face changed from sadness to a gentle pride, which spoke without words, sayingand let our story pause a moment to hear it say: "If any poor exile, from any island where guavas or mangoes or plantains grow, wants a draught which will make him see his home among the cocoa-palms, behold the Café des Exilés ready to take the poor child up and give him the breast!

about Occurrences 7%

And yet, in spite of the wind and the sea and the clean light of the forenoon, there was a sadness about the place, and an undercurrent of uneasy silence that the rustling of the leaves and the noise of the surf only seemed to accentuate.

with Occurrences 6%

The exulting sadness with which Jacopo Foscari looks in the first scene from the window, on the Adriatic, is Byron himself recalling his enjoyment of the sea.

than Occurrences 6%

Unhappily the priests have decided that they have no souls, that they will dry up like so much bright vapour at the last day; but more in sadness than in anger they have said it.

over Occurrences 5%

She played and sang it with so much feeling, that it seemed the voice of memory floating with softened sadness over the far-off waters of the past.

from Occurrences 5%

Paris, rent and bleeding, turns with sadness from the past, and dares not yet raise her eyes to the future!

by Occurrences 4%

It was dangerous to trifle any more upon the brink of fate; and, penetrated as I was with sadness by the result of my last attempt, I was little disposed to unnecessary circumambulation.

as Occurrences 3%

Callandar was long past such gentle sadnesses as these.

into Occurrences 2%

It was only when she smiled, a smile which, curiously enough, seemed to bring back something of that aging sadness into her face, that he found himself able to readjust his tangled impressions.

against Occurrences 1%

It had sadness, then, the sadness of wreckage; sadness against which he seemed to fence in his wordy feints and thrusts.

among Occurrences 1%

Then great Circe spake, and gave order, that there should be no more sadness among them, nor remembering of past sufferings.

after Occurrences 1%

I sat still, shamefaced, scribbling my message hour after hour, not daring to look in the face of those women who turned away in a kind of sullen sadness after their pitiful entreaties.

under Occurrences 1%

The middle-aged fathers of families and the younger sons marched away singing and hiding their sadness under a mask of careless mirth.

Which preposition to use with  sadness