Which preposition to use with simple

in Occurrences 150%

" "You remind me," said Spalding, "of a little incident, simple in itself, but which, at the time, made a deep impression upon my mind, and which occurred but a few weeks ago.

as Occurrences 137%

But while I admit their reality, I insist that such as are so, are the results of natural laws, which will one day be discovered, and which will turn out to be as simple as the spirit which presides over the telegraph, or that which constitutes the life of a steam engine.

of Occurrences 78%

How much for the fee simple of the lot?' "'They ain't worth but ninepence,' he replied.

than Occurrences 62%

It is simpler than Miss Dale's, and being combined with the word method, children get much more quickly to real stories.

to Occurrences 45%

We have only advanced from the simple to the more complex form of matrimony.

for Occurrences 25%

I will hold rain and frost, heat and cold, storm and sun, in fee simple for the race.

with Occurrences 7%

Sage, for example, has a very pretty flavor; and if you wish to heighten it into a debauch, it is only mixing rosemary, wild poppy, and other simples with itbut no compounds!"

by Occurrences 5%

If six dollars would not suffice, the land might be rated at an average value of ten dollars, and the settler charged with a quit-rent of half a dollar per acre, and allowed to convert his tenure into a fee-simple by the payment of the principal.

about Occurrences 5%

" He was so simple about it that she began to laugh.

like Occurrences 4%

She had a curious enjoyment in it, simple like that of a child, and a wish to talk to some one out of the fullness of her heart.

at Occurrences 4%

Added to this moral and intellectual superiority was the "magic power of his language, majestic and simple at the same time, rich yet not bombastic, strange and yet familiar, solemn and not too ornate, grave and yet pleasing, concise and yet fluent, sweet and yet impressive, which altogether carried away the minds of his hearers."

through Occurrences 2%

Industrial production being for use not profit, the great city becomes a thing of the past, and life is rendered simpler through the elimination of a thousand useless and vicious luxuries; those employed in mechanical industries will be incalculably fewer than now, while those that remain will give only a portion of their time to industrial production, the remainder being available for productive work on their own gardens and farms.

out Occurrences 2%

Whatever else I cannot understand, I can at least 'understand the lovingkindness of the Lord;' however high his dwelling may be, I know that he humbleth himself to behold the things in heaven and earth, to take the simple out of the dust, and the poor out of the mire.

on Occurrences 2%

It hung straight and simple on Bambi's lithe figure, bringing out all the colour, the dash, the fire-like quality in the girl's personality.

under Occurrences 1%

Chief after chief accepted the indenture which made him owner in fee simple under the king of his tribal lands.

verses Occurrences 1%

His simple verses possess rare power to charm children.

among Occurrences 1%

The phraseology of that day was notably large and simple among ordinary writers and speakers.

from Occurrences 1%

But whether they come in view of the mind earlier or later, this is true of them, that they are all known by their native evidence; are wholly independent; receive no light, nor are capable of any proof one from another; much less the more particular from the more general, or the more simple from the more compounded; the more simple and less abstract being the most familiar, and the easier and earlier apprehended.

without Occurrences 1%

But there are multitudes of Wordsworth's ballads and lyrics which are simple without being silly, and which, in their homeliness and clear profundity, in their production of the strongest effects by the fewest strokes, are among the choicest modern examples of pure, as distinguished from decorated, art.

during Occurrences 1%

The right of "dower," as used in these tables, refers to the widow's right, under the Common Law, to the possession, for her life-time, of one third of the real estate of which her husband was possessed in fee-simple during the marriage.

before Occurrences 1%

His food was taken to him in the room he had made his habitation, and it was remarked that, though simple before in his gustatory tastes, he nowpossibly owing to the sedentary life he ledbecame fastidious, insisting on recherché bits.

Which preposition to use with  simple