Which preposition to use with stimulus

of Occurrences 159%

The stimulus of facing an appreciative audience would spur him on time after time, and then, late at night, he would write affectionate letters giving details of "the house," etc., but which are painful to see if one notices the constant droop of the words and of the lines across the page.

to Occurrences 103%

I have often explained to you that ye have no reason to doubt of eventual success in the war, but I will now remind you, more emphatically than before, and even with a degree of ostentation suitable as a stimulus to your present unnatural depression, that your naval force makes you masters not only of your allies, but of the entire seaone-half of the visible field for action and employment.

from Occurrences 18%

Upon every organ, including the mind, through the brain, a stimulus from without or within will act according to its ability to influence one or others of these factors.

for Occurrences 12%

Relatively, of course, for all these modes of description imply offensive or defensive possibilities of the stimulus for the recorder in relation to himself.

in Occurrences 11%

"Emulation, that devil-shadow of aspiration," so often used as a stimulus in education, must forever separate the child from his fellows.

as Occurrences 7%

The first stanza of the poem (quoted on page 9) has proved as much of a moral stimulus as any single utterance of Carlyle or of Browning.

than Occurrences 5%

The result showed that fanaticism furnished a more powerful stimulus than loyalty; the soldiers of God proved more than a match for the soldiers of the monarch.

with Occurrences 3%

Have I not cause?For her FORTUNE; fortune, thou knowest, was ever a stimulus with me; and this for reasons not ignoble.

on Occurrences 3%

Moreover, as forty years before, the French Revolution of 1789 had caused great political excitement in England, so now the new French revolution of July acted as a strong stimulus on the movement party in this as well as in other countries; and altogether there was a very general feeling that the time for important changes had come.

by Occurrences 2%

The power of contraction is inherent in the muscle substance, and the stimulus by irritating the nerve ganglia of the heart simply affords the opportunity for its exercise.

at Occurrences 2%

Paintingwhat a pitiful transaction was art (in the divine stimulus at that hour) compared to the supernal happiness of evolved motherhood!

through Occurrences 1%

POISE In between sensitivity and energy, the sensation and the reaction, comes a passage of the stimulus through the gauntlet of the stored past experience of the individual known as memory.

within Occurrences 1%

In the first place, they never have a driver with them on any of these occasions; and, in the second place, having all their earnings to themselves, they have that stimulus within them to excite industry, which is only known to free men.

Which preposition to use with  stimulus