Which preposition to use with sorrow

of Occurrences 492%

In spite of all the sorrow of the world, sorrow both of a personal nature and that which touches whole communities, there is only one real burden upon the heart of earnest men and women: it is our own inadequate representation of Christianity,the disheartening difference between what we practise and what we profess.

for Occurrences 279%

"If there is any feeling among you other than sorrow for their death, it is unjust and unworthy.

in Occurrences 175%

The workman who lives in a clean, sunny, well-aired place, where he can found a home, and bring up healthy children, will do more work, and better work, than the workman who lives in a damp, dark, ill-ventilated tenement, and who goes to his day's work with a heart sullen and broken because of avoidable illness and sorrow in his poor little home.

to Occurrences 130%

Fate was against him: his gray hairs were bound to go down with sorrow to the grave.

at Occurrences 81%

He came up to offer his help, and to express his sorrow at the accident, which he said, doubtless with truth, was not his fault.

with Occurrences 59%

I would go forth into the great world of men and cities, to take my rightful place therein, for until a man hath loved and joyed and sorrowed with his fellows, he knoweth nought of life.

on Occurrences 44%

The picture was dim, but the startled look upon this man's face, and the sorrow on the angel's, appeared out of the misty background with such truth that the tears came into the little Pilgrim's eyes, and she said in her heart, "Oh that I could go to him and help him!"

from Occurrences 38%

How can sorrow from my heart In a case like this depart? Color green the robe displays; Lower garment yellow's blaze.

than Occurrences 34%

"A more in sorrow than in anger."

over Occurrences 26%

But the old feelings will come back again, and we shall drown old sorrows over a game of piquet again.

as Occurrences 24%

But a dog that looks you honestly and frankly in the face, that stands by his master and friend, in all times of trial, in sorrow as in joy, in adversity as in prosperity, in dark days as in bright days, always cheerful, always sincere, earnest, and truthful, and so that his kindness be met, always happy, I like.

by Occurrences 22%

Should a tame duck's duckling get into mortal trouble, its mother will just signify her sorrow by an extra "quack," or so, and a flapping of her wings; but touch a wild duck's little one if you dare!

into Occurrences 19%

The finest things are to be found in the denunciation of the 'deaf and viperous murderer;' in the stanzas concerning the 'Mountain Shepherds,' especially the figure representing Shelley himself; and in the solemn and majestic conclusion, where the poet rises from the region of earthly sorrow into the realm of ideal aspiration and contemplation.

like Occurrences 11%

He had not fallen like me, but his face was drawn with anguish and sorrow like the face of my friend who had been with me in the lazar-house, who had disappeared on the dark mountains.

without Occurrences 9%

You will be far more valiant, if you bear This sorrow without murmur or complaint, Than you could prove in any battle won.

about Occurrences 7%

It is true that I am weighed down with sorrow about her, but that is entirely owing to the state of her health.

out Occurrences 6%

And "If you would have fruit, you must carry the leaf to the grave;" which Ray explains, "You must transplant your trees just about the fall of the leaf," and then there is the much-quoted rhyme: "Fruit out of season, Sorrow out of reason.

before Occurrences 5%

an unlicked bear, 'with all his sorrows before him!' 'Come along,' quoth Bracebridge, between snatches of a tune, his coolness maddening Lancelot.

after Occurrences 5%

'For this, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what vehement desire, what zeal, what revenge!

through Occurrences 5%

I blow away my sorrows through the music of this my little pipe and, lying here, set my wits a-dancing and lo!

amongst Occurrences 3%

" This foul fiend of fear was worshipped heretofore as a god by the Lacedaemonians, and most of those other torturing affections, and so was sorrow amongst the rest, under the name of Angerona Dea, they stood in such awe of them, as Austin, de Civitat.

beyond Occurrences 3%

So that those who saw him understood as he went by, not who he was, nor what he had been, but that he had come out of great tribulation, of sorrow beyond the sorrows of men.

among Occurrences 3%

She would go to forget her sorrow among her school friends in the East.

throughout Occurrences 3%

"Fellow-Citizens: We are called together to-day by an announcement which will cause profound sorrow throughout the civilized world, and which comes to us bearing the additional grief of a personal and private bereavement.

around Occurrences 3%

Innocent and unoffending childhood was robbed of a father's care, and a once happy wife, and joyful mother sat down in her widow's weeds with the mantle of a gloomier sorrow around her heart.

Which preposition to use with  sorrow