Which preposition to use with sings

in Occurrences 603%

I was much impressed with their sad, repressed look when we were in Russia for the coronationone never heard people laugh or sing in the streetsand yet we were there at a time of great national rejoicings, amusements of all kinds provided for the people.

to Occurrences 474%

The trained nurse turns on the light, lifts the baby, hushes it, sings to it, rocks it, and stills its weeping by caresses and song.

of Occurrences 308%

Everybody loves the spring-time; everybody talks about the spring-time; poets sing of it; orators praise it; 'fair women and brave men' laud it; so that were spring-time human, and possessing human instincts, and subject to human frailties, it would have plenty of excuse, for becoming a very vain personage.

for Occurrences 234%

'He could not sing for nuts.

with Occurrences 223%

sing with a Friend of the benevolent and indefatigable HOWARD, when our country was first afflicted with the public intelligence of his death.

at Occurrences 173%

He sang at his work.

on Occurrences 73%

The lofty walls are untouched by any foot, and the falls sing on unchanged; but the sight of crushed flowers and stripped, bitten bushes goes far toward destroying the charm of wildness.

like Occurrences 67%

She could not only sing like a lark, and dance divinely, and embroider beautifully, and spell as well as a "Dixonary" itself, but she had such a kindly, smiling, tender, gentle, generous heart of her own as won the love of everybody who came near her, from Miss Minerva herself down to the poor girl in the scullery and the one-eyed tart woman's daughter, who was permitted to vend her wares once a week to the young ladies in the Mall.

about Occurrences 63%

HOMER had sung about the ox-eyed Juno, and WALTER WHITMAN about bob veal.

from Occurrences 49%

A bird sings from nature; George did not come into the world with a fiddle in his hand," says Mrs. Warrington, with a toss of her head.

unto Occurrences 40%

I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

before Occurrences 34%

He was, says Cibber, in the days of Charles II 'a Youth fam'd for his Voice', and he often sang before the King, no indifferent judge of music.

through Occurrences 33%

When the wind was up, and sang through the sails, and disturbed me with its violent clamours, he would call it music, and bid me hark to the sea-organ, and with that name he quieted my tender apprehensions.

as Occurrences 29%

* Of all the gentle tenants of the place, There was a man of special grave remark; A certain tender gloom o'erspread his face, Pensive, not sad; in thought involved, not dark; As soote this man could sing as morning lark, And teach the noblest morals of the heart; But these his talents were yburied stark: Of the fine stores he nothing would impart, Which or boon Nature gave, or nature-painting Art.

over Occurrences 25%

The Loose-strife shall bloom and the Huckleberry-bird sing over your bones.

by Occurrences 22%

Although we heard the bullet sing by us, for an instant we thought he was hit.

after Occurrences 14%

Truck-drivers gazed at and sang after her.

without Occurrences 13%

She sang without affectation.

out Occurrences 12%

Those attending the chapel profess the very same principles as the Vauxhall-road Baptists, sing out of hymn books just like theirs, and drink in with equal rapture the Philpottian utterances of the Gospel Standardthe organ of the body.

within Occurrences 12%

"He will do whatever I ask him to do," something sang within her.

among Occurrences 12%

Listen again and you will hear the voice of the catbird, the brown thrush, the chervink, the little chickadee, the wood robin, the blue-jay, the wood sparrow, and a hundred other nameless birds that live and build their nests and sing among these old woods.

under Occurrences 11%

Only the merry serenaders, who in those times used to sing under the balconies, would now and then give him a crumb of their feast for pure fun's sake; and after a while, because they could not find out his full name, called him, at hazard, Georgebut always prefixing Monsieur.

around Occurrences 8%

Smooth, deep currents, cascades, falls, and swirling eddies, sing around every tree and leaf, and over all the varied topography of the region with telling changes of form, like mountain rivers conforming to the features of their channels.

beneath Occurrences 8%

When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits.

above Occurrences 8%

But I will sing above all moniments Seven Romane Hils, the worlds seven wonderments.

Which preposition to use with  sings