Which preposition to use with sickens

at Occurrences 61%

I now sickened at the prospect, which once would have set my heart bounding with joy.

with Occurrences 30%

My whole soul sickened with anxiety for the girl.

of Occurrences 17%

He had an uneasy feeling that Peter would one day suddenly sicken of the war and that he would find himself in Paris or on the Riviera.

in Occurrences 10%

Most of those who, after these extortions, had the means, made their way into the interior and settled upon farms, but a large number remained to become inmates of the almshouse, or to starve and sicken in crowded and unwholesome rooms.

for Occurrences 9%

Celestine thinks she is sickening for a fever.

to Occurrences 6%

But the way she is in love with the tenor, honest, it's sickening to me.

on Occurrences 3%

The Moorish maid, while on he sped, Lies sickening on her mournful bed.

by Occurrences 3%

B not only loses A, but all A's part in C. C loses A's part in B, and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.

into Occurrences 3%

But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth arrayed In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain; And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

over Occurrences 3%

Lancelot sickened over it for many a long day; not, indeed, mourning at his private losses, but at the thorough hollowness of the system which it exposed, about which he spoke his mind pretty freely to his uncle, who bore it good-humouredly enough.

within Occurrences 2%

And odd whiles, as I walkt, I called Mine Own by her olden love name, and by the new name of Naani; but never did she move or seem even that she lived; and surely my heart sickened within me with a mighty despair, so that a constant madness did begin to thrill in me and to make me something monstrous in strength, with my fierce agony and intentness to save.

as Occurrences 2%

A sort of purposeful silence, just as sickening as any of the filthy noises the Things have power to make.

from Occurrences 2%

Other writers would have turned back sickened from the task of following Tiberius through mazes of cruelty and craft.

under Occurrences 2%

And they to strike me a thousand times with great stones, so that mine armour rang, and was all fresh burst, and I near to sicken under the blows and new wounds; but they not to harm the Maid, for I carried her above their squat and brutish reach.

unto Occurrences 1%

But when my heart was sickening unto death, I fell in with the greatest blessing of my life, Nanse Cromie, a bit wench of a lassie frae the Lauder direction, who had come to be a servant in the flat below our workshop, and whom I often met on the stairs.

about Occurrences 1%

" Goody Edwards testified: "Y't as Goody Garlick owned, she sent to her daughter for a little best milk and she had some and presently after, her daughters milk went away as she thought and as she remembers the child sickened about y't time."

Which preposition to use with  sickens