Which preposition to use with sensitiveness

of Occurrences 77%

A sweet, wan smilethe instinctive, inborn sensitiveness of a noble nature-flickered over the rugged lines of the face as the usher, retiring, said: "Mr. President, this is Mrs. Sprague, whom you ordered to be admitted.

to Occurrences 60%

I am naturally a modest man, made more so by my extreme sensitiveness to personal criticism; and to be obliged to stand apparently unconscious, when I know I am being looked at and commented upon, is harrowing to my feelings.

on Occurrences 18%

His sensitiveness on the subject was early awakened by careless or unfeeling references.

in Occurrences 11%

How studiously would the scientists explain the effects of sight as produced by subtilty of hearing; and those of hearing as due to abnormal sensitiveness in some other respect!

from Occurrences 5%

Clearly enough, if anything hindered my thought from rising to the force of passionately interested contemplation, or my poor pent-up pond of sensitiveness from widening into a beneficent river of sympathy, it was my own dulness; and though I could not make myself the reverse of shallow all at once, I had at least learned where I had better turn my attention.

under Occurrences 4%

That slaveholders are not insensible to public opinion and to the value of a good character was strikingly exhibited by Mr. Calhoun, in his place in the Senate of the United States, when he followed his frank disclaimer of all suspicion, that the abolitionists are meditating a war against the slaveholder's person, with remarks evincive of his sensitiveness under the war, which they are waging against the slaveholder's character.

with Occurrences 4%

The sensitiveness with this developer is at least equal to that when iron developer is used, frequently even greater.

about Occurrences 3%

God solved the dilemma of her education, and madame's increasing sensitiveness about her appearance in the fifth class, by the death of the old grandmother.

as Occurrences 2%

This sensitiveness as to the merits of their particular profession, and impatience of even indirect criticism, are unnecessary.

for Occurrences 1%

The English people, whatever might have been true of them once, are now the last people in the worldmatched and overawed as they are by the Frenchto charge upon another people a timid sensitiveness for even the slightest intimations of foreign feeling and possible intentions.

than Occurrences 1%

The new force of Andrew Bedient had found in her a larger sensitiveness than even in David Cairns.

by Occurrences 1%

His telephone receiver provided the wireless experimenters with an instrument of extreme sensitiveness by which they were able to detect currents which the mirror galvanometer could not receive.

toward Occurrences 1%

His confidence and the sensitiveness of his faith in and toward God become almost an equal confidence and an equal sensitiveness toward his fellow believers.

at Occurrences 1%

As debility marks the degeneration of our physical constitution, so does a morbid sensitiveness at all earthly indulgence, a tendency to reform things innocent, although useless, betray the weakness of the moral health of our day.

into Occurrences 1%

The effect of this freshly-important ridicule on the sensitive mind of Cass might have been foretold by Blazing Star had it ever taken that sensitiveness into consideration.

within Occurrences 1%

The nose seems to have acquired its sensitiveness within a hundred years,the lungs their objection to foul air, and the palate its disgust at ditch-water like the Thames, within a more recent period.

Which preposition to use with  sensitiveness