Which preposition to use with same

as Occurrences 1840%

Had the hour been the same as when I had last seen the clock, I should have concluded that the hands had stuck in one place, while the internal mechanism went on as usual; but that would, in no way, account for the hands having traveled backward.

in Occurrences 592%

It is generally believed in the east, that the moon, at particular periods of her revolution round the earth, has a great influence in causing rain; though every one must see, that, notwithstanding such influence must be the same in every part of the earth, it is invariably fair in one place, at the very time that it is rainy in another.

with Occurrences 567%

It is the same with the mind as the body: when pain engrosses it in one way, it cannot relish pleasure in another.

to Occurrences 430%

" Reading the above words, more than one minister will cry out, his eyes blazing: "I say the same to you!

for Occurrences 161%

While he went on doing the same for the other logs on that side, the Boy roughly chiselled a moderately flat sill.

of Occurrences 119%

As I went, I asked myself whether the thing I had just seen was likely to be the same of which I had caught a glimpse in the morning.

at Occurrences 74%

"same at Circle," returned the up-river man.

on Occurrences 73%

The reader will recollect, that although our motion, at first, partook of that of the earth's on its axis, and although the positive effect was the same on our course, the relative effect was less and less as we ascended, and consequently, that after a certain height, every part of the terraqueous globe would present itself to our view in succession, as we rapidly receded from it.

by Occurrences 56%

To attain it we must study the difference between abstract and concrete terms, and let neither intrude unadvisedly upon the presence or functions of the other; do the same by literal and figurative terms and instruct ourselves in the nature and significance of connotation.

from Occurrences 45%

The ebb and flow of life remains much the same from day to day.

under Occurrences 22%

I should have thought a big official dinner at the Foreign Office would have been precisely the same under any regime."

before Occurrences 19%

JOHNSON using them in his Magnetic Lady, where one comes out from dinner, and Relates the quarrels and disorders of it; to save the indecent appearing of them on the Stage, and to abbreviate the story: and this, in express imitation of TERENCE, who had done the same before him, in his Eunuch; where PYTHIAS makes the like Relation of what had happened within, at the soldiers' entertainment.

into Occurrences 19%

This last I give, as tenants do their lands, With a surrender to receive again The same into their own possession; No Marian, but Fitzwater's chaste Matilda: The precious jewel, that poor Huntington Doth in this world hold as his best esteem.

about Occurrences 15%

"The Jews said the same about Jesus Christ," she said, "why should the servant be judged more kindly than her Lord?"

without Occurrences 15%

This dog it seemed, knowing that he was not quite a pointer, sought to conciliate humanity by an eagerness, by a pathetic and blundering haste to try and understand what was expected of him and to perform the same without delay, which was quite foreign to the nature of the real breed.

throughout Occurrences 14%

Geometry is the same throughout all the worlds that are or have been or ever will be.

after Occurrences 10%

I knew you never felt the same after our little falling out, when I found you forgingwhat am I saying?reading the letter I sent to Mr. Aiken.

towards Occurrences 10%

The difference between us is this:you professed to be friendly to both; I professed to be hostile to both: you stuck to one of your friends, and cast the other off; and I acted the same towards my enemies."

among Occurrences 9%

The mode of compacting the sheets of their books remained the same among the Greeks during a long course of time.

toward Occurrences 7%

He wondered if Farquhar's attitude would be just the same toward Cissie as it was toward him.

like Occurrences 7%

" "Allee same like littlee dog when 'nother big dog stealum bone," supplemented Ah Sin.

against Occurrences 6%

" "Not so, messire," sighed the rueful knight, "for when I chance to meet a gentle youth, young and well beseenas thou, bedight in goodly mail as thou, with knightly sword on thigh, why then, messire, 'tis ever my wont to declare unto him that she I honour is fairer, nobler, and altogether more worthy and virtuous than any other she soever, and to maintain that same against him, on horse or afoot, with lance, battle-axe or sword.

between Occurrences 6%

And it is the same between the teacher and the pupil.

through Occurrences 5%

Virtue can brook the thoughts of age, That lasts the same through every stage.

within Occurrences 4%

Accordingly, those animals, those ferae naturae, which come under the denomination of game, are, in our laws, styled his or her majesty's, and may therefore, as a matter of course, be granted by the sovereign to another; in consequence of which another may prescribe to possess the same within a certain precinct or lordship.

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