Which preposition to use with shamming

of Occurrences 12%

There's barely enough left over to keep up the sham of dividends.

in Occurrences 6%

"Oh, dearest," she murmured, "if you had seen this beautiful life, you would have known that there is no sham in the religion of Jesus!"

about Occurrences 4%

"It's old, there's no sham about it.

from Occurrences 3%

"] Too many of our modern buildings are a sham from beginning to endsham marble, sham stonework, sham wallpapers, sham wainscoting, sham carpets on the ground, and sham people walking about on them: even the very bookcases are sham.

as Occurrences 3%

Whatsoever else, in their crusade against shams, they were too hasty in sweeping away, they were right, at least, in sweeping away such a sham as that.

for Occurrences 2%

"Call me John Briggs, and let us have done with shams for ever.

with Occurrences 2%

On the last leaf of this Almanack is the following notice: This is to give notice to all people, that all those Prophecies, Predictions, Almanacks, and other pamphlets, that had my name either true, or shammed with the want of a Letter [i.e., spelling his name PARTRIGE instead of PARTRIDGE]: I say, they are all impudent forgeries, by a breed of villains, and wholly without my knowledge or consent.

toward Occurrences 1%

And sudden, I leapt unto the right of the man, thinking within me that I did perceive a chance that I should cut him upon that side; but, truly, he was less awearied than I did know; for he came very sharp upon me, and had me between him and the wall of the Rock; and surely I had no room to make escape, and had died in a moment, but that I made a sudden sham toward the left with the Diskos, as that I should leap that way.

among Occurrences 1%

There would be fewer despicable shams among them.

by Occurrences 1%

Peculation on the part of governors of provinces had become almost a recognised principle: many of those who held offices of state either had done, or were waiting their turn to do, much the same as the present defendant; and every effort had been made by his friends either to put off the trial indefinitely, or to turn it into a sham by procuring the appointment of a private friend and creature of his own as public prosecutor.

on Occurrences 1%

The severest part of his self-education had been the repression of his dangerous inclination to call a sham a sham on the spot, and to answer fools according to their folly.

to Occurrences 1%

A waterfall which will go into a store door without the wearer stoopin over, hain't considered of suffishent altitood for a fashinable got-up femme de sham to tug around.

Which preposition to use with  shamming