Which preposition to use with sickness

of Occurrences 91%

Nor do the cases of sickness of every sort, grave and light, recorded and unrecorded, include all the depressions of vital energy and all the suspensions and loss of effective force in the army.

in Occurrences 65%

"I have such a horror of having sickness in the house,one never knows where it will end.

among Occurrences 23%

The amount of sickness among the people at home is not generally recognized, still less is it carefully measured and recorded.

at Occurrences 17%

Mary told them about the sickness at Ekenge.

for Occurrences 13%

That after the death of this friend, he had renewed his wanderings; and having been detained in this village by a fit of sickness for some weeks, he was warned that it was time to quit his rambling life.

from Occurrences 10%

They were exposed to sickness from malaria, poor food, and hardship; they were molested by the natives whom they constantly provoked; they were subject to cruel treatment on the part of royal governors.

to Occurrences 8%

To dream of eating cabbages implies sickness to loved ones and loss of money."

unto Occurrences 7%

Return unto thy rest, my soul, From all the wanderings of thy thought; From sickness unto death made whole, Safe through a thousand perils brought.

during Occurrences 6%

He had lost many hands from sickness during a particularly cold season, and he was not enterprising enough to start cruising round Cabot Strait before the month of May.

on Occurrences 6%

I tried witchcraft to find the person who placed the troubles and sickness on me.

with Occurrences 5%

She bore all her sickness with calm submission, and when she died she appeared to all who knew her to be prepared for heaven.

as Occurrences 4%

His Negroes again did not counterfeit sickness as before, in order to be excused from labour, but rather wished to labour in order to obtain the reward.

than Occurrences 4%

It was the fact that the damp winds of March and April brought with them more mortal sickness than the sharpest freezing weather.

about Occurrences 3%

We have not had one day of severe cold yet, and there is a great deal of sickness about in consequence.

by Occurrences 3%

In short, we know it so well, that it is in it alone we know all the rest, just as we know the night by the day, sickness by health.

like Occurrences 2%

And this forecast was quickly verified; for ere the galley had dipped a dozen times to the waves, poor Dawson was laid low with a most horrid sickness like any dying man.

through Occurrences 2%

When there is a period of unusual sickness through the community, not only the doctors have extra tasks, but all household servants as well.

amongst Occurrences 2%

The sickness amongst the Russian troops continues, and Diebitch has not more than 40,000 men, even with Roth's corps.

against Occurrences 2%

For the children are vexed with sickness against which medicine has availed nought, and in a higher healing lies their only chance of recovery.

without Occurrences 2%

Age will be often without solace, sickness without alleviation, and infancy without support; because some would not amass for themselves, nor others for their children, the profits of their labour in a representative sign of uncertain value.

throughout Occurrences 1%

The state-room number 7 was an apartment a little bigger than a rabbit-hutch, opening out of a larger cabin, and in that cabin there reposed a ponderous matron who had suffered from sea-sickness throughout the voyage, and who could in no wise permit a masculine intruder to invade the scene of her retirement.

before Occurrences 1%

Brown Tom saw that I looked, as he said, "rather watery," and, by way of cheering me, he told me, if that black cloud in the northeast was coming over us, I would have something worse than home-sickness before night.

into Occurrences 1%

It is man rising out of sickness into healthnot conquered by Werterism, but conquering his selfish sorrow, and the moral and intellectual paralysis which it produces, by faith and hopefaith in the progress of science and civilisation, hope in the final triumph of good.

fraught Occurrences 1%

" "Those cups too soon with sickness fraught Thy stomach shall deplore" "Then soon," he cried, "the noxious draught And all its ills are o'er." "Rash youth, thy guilty joys resign.

behind Occurrences 1%

The genuine agony he had endured during the past three weeks loomed like a sickness behind him.

Which preposition to use with  sickness