Which preposition to use with stage

of Occurrences 1795%

I reached the Pit edge, in the last stage of exhaustion.

in Occurrences 382%

I had certainly ridden in a stage in the last week, and I remember very well that I passed up the fare for lady with blue eyes.

to Occurrences 101%

Then I will come back by easy stages to Itu and home.

for Occurrences 97%

A few days after my election to the legislature a happy event occurred in my family circle, in the birth of a daughter whom we named Ora; about the same time I received another letter from Buntline, in which he requested me to appear on the stage for a few months as an experiment; and he said that if I made a failure or did not like the business, I could easily return to my old life.

with Occurrences 92%

As for his arms, he was for ever breaking one or two of them, but that didn't so much matter, for he could go on the stage with his arm in splints and a sling, and the public always supposed that he was representing a heroic soldier who had just returned from the battle-field.

at Occurrences 72%

And the undersigned having seen the French revolution played on the Roman stage at NIBLO'S, also went home without waiting to see the prophetic fourth and fifth acts, in which the conspirators come to grief, and the empire is reëstablished.

on Occurrences 67%

Wild Bill (who had been driving stage on the road and had recently come down to our division) was elected captain of the company.

as Occurrences 47%

Enter the Princess, who goes over the Stage as a Spirit, bows a little to Alcippus, and goes off. Alcip.

by Occurrences 42%

At the landing-stage by the boat-house I coiled it up as best I could and threw it in.

from Occurrences 33%

A chair was placed for Dan'l on top of this expansive board, which thus became a stage from whence he could overlook the room and the dancers, and then two of the remittance men tossed the old fiddler to his elevated place and commanded him to make ready.

through Occurrences 21%

Fifteen years before, I had ridden the pony express and driven the overland stages through this region, and the command was going into the same section of country where Wild Bill's expedition of stage-drivers and express-riders had recaptured from the Indians a large number of stolen stage-horses.

between Occurrences 19%

He employed me at once to drive stage between Kearney and Plum Creek, the road running near the spot where I had my first Indian fight with the McCarthy brothers, and where I killed my first Indian, nearly nine years before.

without Occurrences 18%

He had a big ball, and the goat got on it and rolled it across the stage without getting off.

than Occurrences 15%

They are frequently, moreover, mere repetitions or amplifications of the prose parts; and being intended more for the ear than the eye, are rather adapted to the stage than to the closet.

during Occurrences 13%

But do you think it was all of his own making?" We will not trouble the reader to accompany our ladies from stage to stage during the remainder of their journey.

before Occurrences 13%

Although he had a fine stage appearance and was a handsome fellow, and possessed a good strong voice, yet when he went upon the stage before an audience, it was almost impossible for him to utter a word.

after Occurrences 13%

By painful stage after stage has that law been built up, with meager enough results, indeed, after all was accomplished that could be accomplished, but always with a clear view, at least, of what the heart and conscience of mankind demanded.

into Occurrences 11%

It flowed down the sweet-water canal (if one may be pardoned for calling 'sweet' a volume of water so charged with vegetable matter and bacteria that it was harmful for white men even to wash in it), was filtered and siphoned under the Suez Canal at Kantara, where it was chlorinated, and passed through a big pipe line and pumped through in stages into Palestine.

under Occurrences 8%

My plan was to travel by easy stages under escort, and encamp out at night; so, having secured the services of six men, who were well armed and mounted on horseback, and having furnished ourselves with a tent and other necessaries, which were carried by individuals of the party, we left Tallahassee, on our way inland, under a scorching sun.

over Occurrences 6%

I drove stage over this route until February, 1866, and while bounding over the cold, dreary road day after day, my thoughts turned continually towards my promised bride, until I at last determined to abandon staging forever, and marry and settle down.

until Occurrences 5%

We know only that Davenant, surviving it, continued to prosper in his theatrical business, writing most of the pieces produced on his stage until the Restoration, when he drew forth from its hiding-place his wreath of laurel-evergreen, and resumed it with honor.

towards Occurrences 5%

And this is only a stage towards a higher goal: "The united Turks should form the centre of gravity of the world of Islam.

out Occurrences 5%

It was about an hour before they could get the stage out of the water.

toward Occurrences 5%

[To the GAME COCK, slowly crossing the stage toward him.]

about Occurrences 4%

It is said, that going frequently to the stage about his mailer's business, gave Betterton the first notion of it, who shewed such indications of a theatrical genius, that Sir William readily accepted him as a performer.

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