Which preposition to use with strife

of Occurrences 166%

He missed the daily strife of keeping his team-mates in trace, the yapping at his heels, the straight long pull over the open spaces and the barrens.

between Occurrences 75%

Opposite, and just below the town, is Carlton Island, on which stand the ruins of an old French fortification, the walls and trenches and the solitary chimneys, from which the wooden barracks have rotted or been burned away, remain as melancholy testimonials of the bloody strifes between the red men of the forest, and the pioneers of civilization who were driving them from the hunting grounds of their fathers.

with Occurrences 48%

Then I told him of my strife with the English merchants.

in Occurrences 32%

The long political strife in England, the gross mismanagement of colonial affairs under Germain, and the shameful blunders that made Saratoga possible, all combined to encourage foreign powers to take the field against the king's incompetent and distracted ministry.

for Occurrences 29%

It forms a decisive epoch in the strife for universal empire, in which all the great states of antiquity successively engaged and failed.

as Occurrences 9%

But a sanguinary struggle for the Rhine frontier, between two civilized Christian nations who have each enough work to do in ithe world without engaging in such a strife as this, will, I am sure, be by and by condemned by the general opinion of mankind.

among Occurrences 9%

War among nations and strife among individuals is a result of the covetous spirit to possess.

against Occurrences 9%

" "Think, Beulah," rejoined Maud, with an ashen cheek, and in trembling tones, "that Evert and Robert may, at this very moment, be engaged in strife against each other.

to Occurrences 6%

Surely domestic peace is not so trifling a matter that the law should seek to add new subjects of strife to the many that seem to be nearly inseparable from the married state.

on Occurrences 5%

They formed no mere struggle to determine the lot of two cities or two empires; but it was a strife on the event of which depended the fate of two races of mankind, whether the dominion of the world should belong to the Indo-Germanic or to the Semitic family of nations.

within Occurrences 4%

There will be no want, in that time, of variety of occupation and talent, or of differentiation in the social organism; quite the contrary; but simply there will be no predatory or parasitical groups within such organism, whose, interests will run counter to the whole, and which will act (as such classes act now) as foci and seedbeds of disease and strife within the whole.

than Occurrences 4%

But with us Germans it is still more terrible, because it is fought out by us with more love for the strife than any other war.' "Does it not sound truly horrible for the greatest benefactor of a nation, which has to thank him for having realized its century-old dream of unity, to say in all calm and as something quite obvious, that his own nation engages in a civil war 'with more love' than any other war?

before Occurrences 3%

It took thirteen years of parliamentary strife before the Peelites, whom he led, were finally incorporated with the Liberal party.

at Occurrences 3%

The acrimony of party strife at that time has never since been equalled.

about Occurrences 3%

Little could he make of all the strife about him.

without Occurrences 2%

I did not trust my old limbs in so hard a strife without hopes of a reward.

by Occurrences 2%

and Henry VII. tried to put an end to these strifes by abolishing the corporations of workmen, but these powerful associations fearlessly opposed the imperial authority.

into Occurrences 2%

Indeed, one of the most striking facts of this age of the Renaissance is the swift and spectacular rise of Spain from a land of feebleness and internal strife into the most powerful kingdom of Europe.

through Occurrences 1%

Save where, unceasingly, Among the pillared scaurs Of perilous Farnes, wild waves for ever more Breaking in foam, Sounded as some far strife through the star-haunted gloam.

over Occurrences 1%

After the orthodox strife over the speakership of the House, and the equally orthodox wrangle over contested seats, the State Assembly had settled down to routine business, despatching it with such unheard-of celerity as to win columns of approval from the State press as a whole; though there were not wanting a few radical editors to raise the ante-election cry of reform, and to ask pointedly when it was to begin.

towards Occurrences 1%

"In short, Naufal having rewarded all of them according to their desserts, thought it contrary to gentlemanly conduct and manliness of character to harbour enmity and strife towards a man like Hatim, from whom multitudes received happiness, and who, for the sake of the necessitous, did not even spare his own life, and was entirely devoted to the ways of God.

Under Occurrences 1%

Should he perish in the strife Under Afric's burning sky, There were nothing left in life

out Occurrences 1%

But he stood serene and imperturbable, while that denial, like many another blast of evil-scented wind, passed into nothingness, even before the disappearance of the party strife out of whose fermentation it had arisen.

amongst Occurrences 1%

In 1177 fresh troubles broke out, and from that time their history was one of unbroken revolt against their father and strife amongst themselves.

amidst Occurrences 1%

Interpret as you will that Winged Form, High-soaring, keen-eyed, of imperial pose, Or that close-clinging, coiled Colossal Worm; 'Tis an eternal type of strife amidst the storm.

Which preposition to use with  strife