Which preposition to use with sages

of Occurrences 88%

What say the sages of the vast possibilities of the race?

in Occurrences 30%

Hear what sages in their proverbs say: 'That which is bitter never can turn sweet,' 'Leave him whose intercourse is troublesome, And cleave to one who hath an easy way,' 'Endure the pangs of love until they pass,'" Where is thy cure, O Taleb?

in Occurrences 13%

"Look'ee, 'tis fair, good rope this, and well-tried, and shall bear even thy great carcase sweetlyaye, sweetly" "Howwould'st hang me also?" said Beltane faintly, and the heavy quarter-staff sagged in his loosened grip.

with Occurrences 8%

The sage with the onions was absent, but the pretty girl in the red hood held her accustomed place, warming mittened fingers at a chaufferette which she held on her lap.

to Occurrences 7%

On the very heels of him, so that they met and danced to pass each other in the doorway, Mr. Vetsburg entered, with an overcoat flung across his right arm and his left sagging to a small black traveling-bag.

from Occurrences 6%

There is the smell of sage at sundown, burning sage from campoodies and sheep camps, that travels on the thin blue wraiths of smoke; the kind of smell that gets into the hair and garments, is not much liked except upon long acquaintance, and every Paiute and shepherd smells of it indubitably.

to Occurrences 6%

The great political truth that the welfare of the people is the first duty and highest aim of rulers, has endeared the memory of the sage to the unnumbered millions who toil upon the scantiest means of subsistence that have been known in any nation's history.

on Occurrences 6%

Here and there a shutter had broken loose and was sagging on rusted hinges.

from Occurrences 5%

In there she slid into black-velvet slippers and a dark-blue walking-skirt, pulled on over the pink silk, tucking it up around the waist so that it did not sag from beneath the hem, squirmed into a black-velvet jacket with a false dicky made to emulate a blouse-front, and a blue-velvet hat hung with a curtain-like purple face-veil.

with Occurrences 5%

He sags with knowledge.

on Occurrences 4%

The Black Sage on the mountains is part of a dense, thorny chaparral, which is composed chiefly of adenostoma, ceanothus, manzanita, and cherrynot differing greatly from that of the southern portion of the Sierra, but more dense and continuous, and taller, and remaining longer in bloom.

under Occurrences 4%

His knees gave, sagging under the strain from the arms.

at Occurrences 3%

The skirt was not even, the collar, having lost a support, sagged at one side and just below the girdle belt there was a small, jagged rent.

as Occurrences 3%

His eyes glistening with tears, he gazed reverentially at the venerable man, and said within himself that never was there an aspect so worthy of a prophet and a sage as that mild, sweet, thoughtful countenance, with the glory of white hair diffused about it.

at Occurrences 3%

There is the smell of sage at sundown, burning sage from campoodies and sheep camps, that travels on the thin blue wraiths of smoke; the kind of smell that gets into the hair and garments, is not much liked except upon long acquaintance, and every Paiute and shepherd smells of it indubitably.

out Occurrences 2%

Gray were his eyes, too, and his suit, a comfortable baggy suit with the slouch of the wearer impressed into it, the coat hiking center back, the pocket-flaps half in, half out, and the knees sagging out of press.

of Occurrences 2%

From my vantage-point on the ridge I had an unobstructed view of the encampment, a great circle of tepees and tents three miles in circumference, cradled in a sag of the timberless hills.

into Occurrences 2%

The fragment of a wall or plinth, covered with rank creepers, an archway of which the stones are sagging into final disruption, and many a tumulus of coarse brown grass are all that remain of the wide buildings which once surrounded the Ambarkhana.

beneath Occurrences 2%

Another, the mirror shows back a sag beneath the eyes.

for Occurrences 2%

But little cared the sage for such things; he, was rejoiced to be at home and at peace, and near his own early gains of hiaqua and treasure buried in a place of security.

OF Occurrences 1%

THERE IS ALSO A LIBRARY EDITION IN REINFORCED CLOTH THE SAGES OF OLD LIVE AGAIN IN US GLANVILL "DE BELLO GALLICO" & OTHER COMMENTARIES: OF CAIUS JULIUS CAESAR

as Occurrences 1%

He paused to light a cigar after the boy was at his sidethe buggy continuing to sag as beforethen he pushed up the ends of his eyebrows with the blunt thumb, clicked to the long-striding roan, and they were off at a telling trot.

like Occurrences 1%

and he leans oo'er and tuk it; and he sagged like, and so it drew him in, under the mere, before I cud du nout.

toward Occurrences 1%

Calamity whipped down the gun and fired, but even before the trigger was pulled he was sagging toward the floor, for Bard had shot to kill.

until Occurrences 1%

But at the foot of one steep cliff there was a narrow, boulder-covered slope where it was possible to sling hammocks and cook; and a slanting spot was found for my cot, which had sagged until by this time it looked like a broken-backed centipede.

Which preposition to use with  sages