Which preposition to use with simplicities

of Occurrences 816%

I don't know if they expected to find the rooms filled with gentlemen in the traditional red Garibaldian shirtand ladies in corresponding simplicity of attire.

in Occurrences 81%

Sometimes I was induced, through the Brahmin, to criticise their taste and skill, having been always an admirer of simplicity in female attire.

with Occurrences 23%

It did one good to hear the Colonel's honest laughs at Clown's jokes, and to see the tenderness and simplicity with which he watched over this happy brood of young ones.

to Occurrences 10%

It is true that many of the inland provinces preferred their native simplicity to imported elegance and, rather than bow their necks to the Roman yoke, offered their bosoms to the sword.

about Occurrences 9%

"There is a certain simplicity about her which argues a good and kind heart, and an open nature.

as Occurrences 7%

But this simplicity as to duration is broken in upon in various ways, chiefly through the action of side-streams that enter the lower lakes direct.

than Occurrences 6%

Was there ever a better specimen of feigned simplicity than he?

on Occurrences 4%

Cosimo, who was buried with all simplicity on August 22nd, 1464, in his last illness recommended Donatello, who was then seventy-eight, to his son Piero.

into Occurrences 4%

A kind and Christian man interpreted with simplicity into the Turkish language.

over Occurrences 3%

With constantly increasing prosperity, he kept a level head, and lived with simplicity over his shop,most business men lived over their shops, in both England and America at that period.

by Occurrences 3%

I should be sorry to spoil its noble simplicity by any words of my own: 'And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

from Occurrences 3%

Alvarez worked hard and had inherited a rather austere simplicity from his Indian ancestors.

at Occurrences 3%

" "I fear me," said the old man, looking with simplicity at the other, "there is little difference between the powerful and the weak, when the garments are stripped from both, and the man stands naked to the eye.

for Occurrences 2%

Be ruled by me; exchange thy abject superstition for common sense; thy childish simplicity for discreet policy; thy unbecoming spareness for a majestic portliness; thy present ridiculous and uncomfortable situation for the repute of sanctity, and the veneration of men.

versus Occurrences 2%

Simplicity versus complexity in combating fears, and others.

among Occurrences 2%

But no intelligence would support me, I encountered fear or effeminacy among the enlightened classes, selfishness among the rich, simplicity among the youth, and only in the mountains, in the waste places, among the outcasts, have I found my men.

without Occurrences 1%

In short, that simplicity without which no human performance can arrive to any great perfection, is nowhere more eminently useful than in this.

beyond Occurrences 1%

A simplicity beyond the simplicity of childhood was one with a poetic color in her absolute ideas.

during Occurrences 1%

At last he settled the question to his own satisfaction, by substituting for his white wig a black silk pocket-handkerchief, with which head-dress he officiated in all simplicity during the usual term of mourning.

towards Occurrences 1%

The simplicity towards which the world is driving is the necessary outcome of all our systems and speculations and of our deep and continuous contemplation of things.

above Occurrences 1%

And as the former species of writing is the more engaging and beautiful, one may safely, upon this account, give the preference to the extreme of simplicity above that of refinement.

before Occurrences 1%

In converse with my friends, I have endeavoured to keep a conscience void of offence, and to walk in simplicity before the Lord; but Oh! when viewed in the glass of God's law, how deficient!

Which preposition to use with  simplicities