Which preposition to use with selecting

for Occurrences 431%

When we reached the spot selected for the sacrifice, the crowd that had there assembled, was not so great as to prevent our getting near the funeral pile; but the numbers continued to augment, until nothing could be seen from the slight eminence on which I stood, but one dense mass of heads, all looking one way, and expressing the intense interest they felt.

from Occurrences 410%

We there saw two game-cocks, which, so far from fighting, (though they had been selected from the most approved breed,) billed and cooed like turtle-doves.

as Occurrences 209%

The outer chambers of mountain caves are frequently selected as homes by wild beasts.

with Occurrences 74%

The music is of course selected with skill, and care is taken that the "expression" shall not make the children foolishly self-conscious.

in Occurrences 45%

In their powers of trumpeting some are more expert than others; and whether this has any effect in influencing their own estimate of themselves, we cannot say; but they are rather select in the choice of their company.

on Occurrences 23%

An aerial current to the north-westward at our present level, which had been selected on that account, carried us at a rate of some twelve miles an hour; a rate much increased, however, by the sails at the stern of the car, sails of thin metal fixed on strong frames, and striking with a screw-like motion.

at Occurrences 22%

It is my intentionfrom which as yet my diffidence withholds meto present to the winner of one of these contests a red apple which I shall select at a corner stand.

out Occurrences 12%

Ms. Allidap, you were selected out of the five hundred billion applicants to receive a prize of twenty-seven million dollars and thirteen cents!

without Occurrences 9%

A jury had been selected without much manifest attention by Tutt, who had nevertheless managed to slip in an Abyssinian brother on the back row, and an ex-dog fancier for Number Six.

of Occurrences 5%

It is not enough to tell us that men will be selected of more virtue and talents than those now in powersuch a pretence is vainno man in his senses will regard itno man makes such a pretence but for wicked purpose.

by Occurrences 4%

From among those who present themselves as candidates he selects by a careful examination those whom he deems most competent, and gives to each a certificate of qualification.

of Occurrences 3%

If the error in the selecting of the office has been wilful, say, through gross carelessness, and is the fault of the priest who changes a notable part of a canonical Hour, he is obligedthe more probable opinion teachesto repeat the full Hour, and this obligation binds under pain of venial sini.e., the obligation to recite the office in the prescribed manner.

among Occurrences 3%

" In selecting among common and ordinary adventures, I have endeavoured to avoid such as a thousand novels before mine have undertaken to develop.

between Occurrences 3%

To select between the two last-mentioned nobles was difficult as well as dangerous; the position of M. d'Epernon as colonel-general of the infantry, and his immense possessions, rendering him a formidable adversary; while the Duc de Bouillon was still more powerful from his occupation of Sedan, his intelligence with foreign states, and his influence over his co-religionists.

than Occurrences 3%

It can be approached from many sides, each with some peculiar advantage of its own; but, after careful deliberation, it appears to me that, for the purpose of the present course, no better starting-point could be selected than the relation between Spirit and Matter.

to Occurrences 3%

He mentioned their location as selected to their liking; and said that he left them busily employed in completing its settlement.

near Occurrences 2%

On the 7th of January we moved up the mountains into the position previously selected near Casa Girardi.

throughout Occurrences 2%

Certain stations had been selected throughout the city, where each pageant should stop and, in the proper order, present its own play.

after Occurrences 1%

VI In the autumn of that year Keith was sent to a "real" school, selected after much inquiry by his parents as combining a reasonable degree of efficiency and social standing with an equally reasonable cost of tuition.

under Occurrences 1%

The general and almost simultaneous suspension of specie payments by the banks in May last rendered the performance of this duty imperative in respect to those which had been selected under the act, and made it at the same time impracticable to employ the requisite number of others upon the prescribed conditions.

within Occurrences 1%

These sites were to be selected within one year, which term was afterwards extended to four years from date.

amongst Occurrences 1%

A color-blind person will select amongst others some of the confusion-colors, e.g., pink, yellow.

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