Which preposition to use with sobrieties

of Occurrences 71%

Some of the faces were stained dark with passion and crime, some had the air of wild boys, and some the hard sobriety of traders.

in Occurrences 7%

It was quite possible, indeed when one judged Mr. Phinuit by his sobriety in contrast with the gaiety of the others it seemed quite plausible, that he was equally with Jules a paid employee of those ostensible nouveaux riches: and that the two, the chauffeur and the courier (or whatever Mr. Phinuit was in his subordinate social rating) were accustomed to amuse themselves by indulging in reciprocal abuse.

to Occurrences 3%

It has even been said that ripe old whisky ten years old, drank in equal quantities, would probably import a tone of sobriety to the densely- populated quarters of East London.

with Occurrences 2%

The sobriety with which they are stated entitles them to a greater consideration than if they had been given in violent language.

as Occurrences 2%

Indulgent to the movements of nature, opposed to its struggles, never mistaking chastity for a virtue, always considering luxury as a vice, he insisted upon sobriety as an economy of the appetite, and that the repasts in which one indulged should never injure him who partook.

between Occurrences 1%

It is found that the long-continued habitual user of alcoholic drinks, the man who is never intoxicated, but who will tell you that he has drunk whiskey all his life without being harmed by it, is more likely to transmit the evil effects to his children than the man who has occasional drunken outbreaks with intervals of perfect sobriety between.

than Occurrences 1%

That it is so in this instance we do not affirm; but we should need the assertion of a man of more intellectual sobriety than Mr. Laing to make it worth the trouble of investigating.

at Occurrences 1%

And very soon Mrs. Drane understood why there had been sobriety at breakfast and hilarity at dinner.

under Occurrences 1%

381; vow of sobriety under the venerable yew, ii. 381, n. 1, 436, n. 1; to Paoli and Courtenay, ib.; water-drinking, tries, iii. 170, n. 1, 328; wits, one of a group of, ii. 324; works, list of his projected, v. 91, n. 2 (to this list should be added An account of a projected Tour to the Isle of Man, iii. 80); writings, early, i. 383, n. 3; York, at, in 1784, iv.

from Occurrences 1%

The thought of this splendid glorious brother of hers painfully endeavoring to drag himself back into a state of sobriety from his first wild caper after long wearing of the harness of disciplinean escapade she supposed that he must have been looking forward to for daysdragging himself back to protect heroh, it was too hopeless!

Which preposition to use with  sobrieties