Which preposition to use with sarcasms

of Occurrences 47%

This aroused the Baron's anger, and I knew from the cold sarcasm of his remarks, and the peculiarly hard tone of his voice, that he was more incensed than he outwardly showed himself to be.

in Occurrences 40%

"It is said in Europe," observed Johr Effingham, his fine face expressing the cool sarcasm in which he was so apt to indulge, "that there are la vieille and la Jeune France.

on Occurrences 15%

Some of the ministers who, out of office, 'had set up as the patrons of liberty,' were made the object 'of many sarcasms on the beaten subject of occasional patriotism.'

at Occurrences 11%

The carriage passed down the same road that Jack had gone the day before, whistling sarcasms at his keeper.

against Occurrences 8%

No day passes but the attack is renewed, but there is heard some sarcasm against the reverend, venerable, infallible corporations, defenseless and unsupported.

with Occurrences 6%

The sarcasm with which Tacitus speaks of certain other triumphs of Roman generals over Germans may apply to the pageant which Germanicus celebrated on his return to Rome from his command of the Roman army of the Rhine.

about Occurrences 4%

The house seemed so tiny and so suffocating after the splendid halls and huge rooms at Glencardine, while her aunt's constant sarcasm about her fatherwhom she had not seen for eight yearswas particularly galling.

to Occurrences 4%

It is adding the bitterness of sarcasm to his punishment.

as Occurrences 3%

As soon suspect an infant of elaborate sarcasm as Eveena of affectation, irony, or conscious paradox.

from Occurrences 3%

There was only one prospect left, and he went to a rich money lender, and in response to his request for relief in money difficulties, was met with this reply of irony and sarcasm from one who loved to indulge his enmity to the Christian faith.

than Occurrences 2%

'That's the objection to them,' answered the beauty with more sarcasm than grammatical sequence.

towards Occurrences 1%

During the course of a long literary life, I doubt whether he was ever provoked to use a single word of asperity or sarcasm towards any of his contemporaries.

without Occurrences 1%

"Oh, boys!" finally said Bart, "it is good exercise for us all; persiflage is not your 'best holt,' as the wrestlers would say, and you need practice, while I want to accustom myself to irony and sarcasm without replying.

over Occurrences 1%

From this he passed to coarse jests and sarcasm over the presumption which some good-for-nothing "prompters" had of teaching their teachers by establishing an academy for instruction in Castilian.

for Occurrences 1%

I may add, at the risk of sarcasm for the vanity, that in proof of his mellowed temper towards me, besides the kind frankness with which he received my friend, as already mentioned, he sent me word, by the Earl of Blesinton, that he had read my novel of The Entail three times, and thought the old Leddy Grippy one of the most living-like heroines he had ever met with.

Which preposition to use with  sarcasms