Which preposition to use with stricture

on Occurrences 46%

I hope we shall fully discuss with George Dyer what I have never yet heard done to my satisfaction,the reason of Dr. Johnson's malevolent strictures on the higher species of the Ode. C. LAMB.

of Occurrences 18%

On board the cruiser all hands stood petrified, bound in a stricture of speechless wonder.

in Occurrences 5%

It seems the Doctor had suppressed many hopeful geniuses that way by the severity of his critical strictures in his "Lives of the Poets."

with Occurrences 2%

We shall conclude our astrological strictures with the following advertisement, which affords as fine a satirical specimen of quackery as is to be met with.

by Occurrences 2%

No, no, our pride forbids this; we always make our betters the subject of our strictures by preference, taking up with our equals only when we can get none of a higher class.

to Occurrences 2%

We shall therefore confine our moral strictures to the Nymph's mother; in whose defence the Poet has little to say himself.

for Occurrences 1%

who deserved Machiavelli's strictures for having engaged, by means of diplomatic alliances of the most contradictory kind, at one time with the Venetians' support, and at another against them, in a policy of distant and incoherent conquests, without any connection with the national interests of France, and, in the long run, without any success.

as Occurrences 1%

And woe betide us if we are heretic, and the patient does not recover so quickly as we could wish (if he does, we shall be suspected of having surreptitiously called the orthodox nostrums to our aid, but that by the way), so that it behoves us to give the critical and censorious as little room for their strictures as possible.

from Occurrences 1%

The two hurried out into the street, followed by indistinct strictures from the kitchen.

Which preposition to use with  stricture