Which preposition to use with sense

of Occurrences 10894%

Somehow, as we went forward, a sense of the silent loneliness and desertion of the old garden grew upon me, and I felt shivery.

in Occurrences 687%

Seems to me nowadays the church is built at a different angle from the Sermon on the Mount an' things is measured by the world's yardsticks till there ain't much sense in callin' it a church at all.

than Occurrences 107%

"That fellow at the Forks has no more sense than a hen.

to Occurrences 105%

This ain't got to be a war, Mr. Eagen, just because we don't want to work without any sense to it.

for Occurrences 97%

'Ain't you men got no sense for seein' things?

as Occurrences 95%

Still, except at night, she does not regard herself in any sense as an invalid.

with Occurrences 92%

Ariel said, he had left them almost out of their senses with fear, at the strange things he had caused them to see and hear.

by Occurrences 53%

A kind old Quaker found and took me home; but though I was too weak to talk, I had my senses by that time, and knew what went on about me.

from Occurrences 50%

Meanwhile, Base Ball had received a setback greater than any which had befallen the sport in an organized sense from a professional standpoint.

at Occurrences 43%

"So you have come to your senses at last!" said Mr. SCHENCK, hastily drawing his visitor toward a window in the side-room to which they had retired.

on Occurrences 40%

Sights that offended more than one of the senses on the day when General Allenby made his official entry had disappeared, and peace and order reigned where previously had been but misery, poverty, disease, and squalor.

into Occurrences 33%

If you want me to hammer sense into the planters, you could not get a worse man for the job.

about Occurrences 31%

The next day no one of them was found dead; and they recovered their senses about the same hour that they had lost them on the preceding day; and on the third and fourth days they got up as if after having taken physic.

without Occurrences 22%

I will not therefore busy myself about the "unconcerning parts of knowledge, but be content like a reader of plain sense without politeness."

under Occurrences 21%

John Wingfield, Sr. put his hands out to the shoulders of his son and gripped them strongly, and for a second let his own weight half rest on that sturdy column which he sensed under the grip.

out Occurrences 20%

Some very good but ordinary people, by an unwearied perseverance in good offices, put a cheat upon our eyes: juggle our senses out of their natural impressions; and set us upon discovering good indications in a countenance, which at first sight promised nothing less.

like Occurrences 13%

It came over the senses like a pleasant dream, as it went swelling up to the hills that skirted the lake, floating away over the water, and dying away in lengthened cadence in the old forests.

within Occurrences 10%

His resurrection and ascension satisfy our consciences, satisfy that highest reason and moral sense within us, which is none other than the voice of the Holy Spirit of God.

among Occurrences 7%

Not again that there are wanting men of sense among the same body.

against Occurrences 6%

It would be common sense against instinct.

during Occurrences 5%

"Can any good come out of Trinity?" is a question that has been asked and answered in various senses during the recent Catholic University controversies in Ireland; but for whatever other good Catholics might look to that staunchly Elizabethan institution, they would scarcely turn thither for theological guidance.

before Occurrences 4%

Mrs. Veal died the seventh of September, at twelve o'clock at noon, of her fits, and had not above four hours' senses before her death, in which time she received the sacrament.

over Occurrences 4%

Now I ask my readers to use their common sense over this astounding factwhich, after all, is only one among hundreds; to let (as Mr. Matthew Arnold would well say) their "thought play freely" about it; and consider for themselves what those shells must mean.

after Occurrences 4%

Each new manifestation of life means some new correspondence with surrounding reality as we piss from mere vegetation, and then add local movement, and one sense after another, till we come finally to intelligence and the life of reason and right-doing, which again, consists in self-conformation to things as they really are.

through Occurrences 4%

We also maintainagain with perfect truththat mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

Which preposition to use with  sense