Which preposition to use with speakings

of Occurrences 65%

"Yes, perhaps these white men deserved dogseven Peetka's!" Kurilla limped back to his place, but turned to the Ingaliks before he sat down, and bending painfully over his stick, "Not Kurilla," he said, as though speaking of one absent"not Dall make so great journey, no dogs.

to Occurrences 11%

You surely do not complain of his speaking to me, of his being simply civil and polite!

for Occurrences 3%

Suppose you take as a theme-subject The Value of Training in Public Speaking for a Business Man.

in Occurrences 2%

He would get back in time to hear the speaking in the afternoon.

on Occurrences 1%

His emotions would have precluded the idea of his speaking on such an occasion.

with Occurrences 1%

He immediately follows this non-sequitur with a reference to the lying Hebrew midwives, and he quotes the declaration of God's blessing on them, as if it were an approval of their lying, or their false speaking with an intention to deceive, instead of an approval of their spirit of devotion to God's people.

after Occurrences 1%

He raised no objection to their speaking after the service, but the sermon which he preached, as they afterwards found, was on the politics of the day, and when it was concluded, they were still kept waiting during a conference which the consistory had with him.

without Occurrences 1%

"Will you excuse my speaking without ceremony?"

by Occurrences 1%

A somewhat unusual note, however, was struck in an act of 1730 which while penalizing with stripes the speaking by a slave of such words as would be actionable if uttered by a free person provided that in his defence the slave might make the same pleas and offer the same evidence as a freeman.

from Occurrences 1%

"And a strange enough sight it wasa turbulent crowd, and much political speaking from hoarse-throated giants held aloft on their friends' shoulders."

like Occurrences 1%

It doesn't matter our speaking like this before her.

Which preposition to use with  speakings