Which preposition to use with settings

of Occurrences 279%

When next the baby is put down to sleep, more cries, more soothing and disturbance, and the setting of a tiny instinct which shall some day be willthe power of control.

for Occurrences 60%

As this was still unoccupied, it made a most appropriate setting for the projected entertainment.

in Occurrences 38%

At the end of the next summer, returning to Fort Vancouver after the setting in of the winter rains, bearing in mind the big pine he had heard of, he set out on an excursion up the Willamette Valley in search of it; and how he fared, and what dangers and hardships he endured, are best told in his own journal, from which I quote as follows: October 26, 1826.

to Occurrences 20%

As we stood looking over at the new mill, listening to the slight stir within it, apparently the setting to rights by some lingering workman of such odds and ends as remain after finishing the great whole of such a building, suddenly the cool wind, which had shifted to the north, brought on its waft a most portentous roar.

by Occurrences 6%

By and by, when the wind fell, and the hurry was over, and I had the time to think a steady thought, being in the morning watch, I seemed to see the old lady in the gray bunnet setting by the fire.

on Occurrences 6%

But the retreat hereabouts had been too rapid and involuntary for deliberate burning or destruction or trap-setting on an appreciable scale....

as Occurrences 6%

ACT III Setting as in ACT I SCENE I BOLSHÓV comes in and sits down in the armchair; for some time he looks into the corners and yawns.

with Occurrences 5%

As a dramatic representation the drama had the advantage of being produced at the Lyceum Theatre, London, with all the historic art and sumptuous stage-setting with which Sir Henry Irving could well give it,Irving himself personating Philip, while Miss Bateman took the part of Queen Mary.

from Occurrences 4%

"It seems to me that the floe has parted alongside of them rocks, and if-so-be that should turn out to be the case, the whull on us, schooner, boat, and all hands, may drift into the bay; for that there is a current setting from this quarter up towards our island, I'm sartain of, by the feel of my oar, as we come along.

towards Occurrences 4%

Thus there were ever two tidesthe larger setting towards Kentucky, the lesser towards the old States; so that the two streams passed each other on the Wilderness roadfor the people who came down the Ohio could not return against the current.

before Occurrences 3%

Next to those Examples which may be met with in Books, I very much approve Horace's Way of setting before Youth the infamous or honourable Characters of their Contemporaries: That Poet tells us, this was the Method his Father made use of to incline him to any particular Virtue, or give him an Aversion to any particular Vice.

for Occurrences 2%

BUSZIN, WALTER E. Settings for a cappella choir.

at Occurrences 2%

He was himself an eye-witness of some of the most disgraceful excesses of the mob, the burning of the governor of Newgate's house, and the setting at liberty of the prisoners.

into Occurrences 2%

At noon an indifferent observation for the latitude and a sight of the land, which for a few minutes was visible through the squalls, showed that our situation was very much nearer to the shore than we had expected, a circumstance that was attributed to a current setting into the bight to the northward of Jervis Bay.

out Occurrences 2%

The Hungarian chancellor, Mailath, was so alarmed at Kossuth's speech that he hindered the setting out of the deputation which was to have presented the address to the Emperor.

than Occurrences 2%

There is no finer model for the study of setting than this story affords.

without Occurrences 2%

For a brief moment I forgot the war and was back in that cheerful world where we used to be happy, where we greeted the rising sun with light hearts and saw its setting without fear.

against Occurrences 1%

Our course lay up the river, with a strong current setting against us; so we made but little way, and enjoyed the tranquil beauty of the evening.

between Occurrences 1%

Proceeding towards Port Essington, we experienced a constant current setting between North-West and West, from half to three quarters of a knot an hour, except when crossing the mouth of the Gulf of Carpentaria, when from the indraught its direction was changed to West-South-West.

around Occurrences 1%

Linköping lay around its cathedral like a pearl-setting around a precious stone; and the gardens in the country were like little brooches and buttons.

up Occurrences 1%

In the first place ******* and then it sends you home with such increased appetite to your books ***** not to say, that your outside sheets, and waste wrappers of foolscap, do receive into them, most kindly and naturally, the impression of sonnets, epigrams, essaysso that the very parings of a counting-house are, in some sort, the settings up of an author.

forfor Occurrences 1%

The stately old mansion was just the right setting forfor Unbidden into his mind a queer, new thought shot suddenly, interrupting the flow of ideas.

along Occurrences 1%

Tree-setting along the Cuban highways, more particularly in the neighborhood of the cities, is not at all unusual, and some of these shaded roads are exceedingly charming.

over Occurrences 1%

A young moon was near its setting over the farthest pike, and the fine lines of the mountain rose dimly clear, from its base on the valley floor to the dark cliffs of Pavey Ark.

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