Which preposition to use with striving

for Occurrences 233%

When he was over eighty years old he was still striving for the good of others.

with Occurrences 117%

Our provisions had run low, and there seemed little enough for two hungry men who had all day been striving with salt winds.

after Occurrences 86%

In his hand was a scroll inscribed as follows: "Six times twice six years have I striven after knowledge, and I now bequeath to the world the fruit of my toil, being six poisons.

in Occurrences 67%

They are leaving for the Front, to defend alongside of the heroic soldiers of Italy and France the disputed and sacred soil of our country, and to combat the German barbarians, who strive in vain to advance against the rampart which is formed by the breasts of the soldiers of three nations.

against Occurrences 49%

Nay, there are those among them, and many, thank Godweak women, too, among themwho have resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

after Occurrences 25%

Almsgiving, recommended above all other virtues, was not only to be practised in obedience to Allah's law and in faith in retribution, but it was to testify contempt of all earthly possessions which might impede the striving after eternal happiness.

of Occurrences 25%

And there are the Victors in the yet deeper strivings of the soulin its inner battles and spiritual conquestsMilton's Adam, Paracelsus, Dante, the soul in The Palace of Art, Abt Vogler, Isaiah, Teufelsdröckh, Paul.

for Occurrences 18%

His run to Dr. Jallup's, across the Big Hill, was a series of renewed strivings for speed.

By Occurrences 14%

O Flaccus, if th'Arabian phoenix strive By nature's warning to renew her kind, When, soaring nigh the glorious eye of heaven, She from her cinders doth revive her sex, Why should not Sylla learn by her to die, That erst have been the Phoenix of this land?

toward Occurrences 12%

It is the law of life itself that every being seeks and strives toward the perfection of its kind, the realization of its own specific ideal in form and function, and a true harmony with its environment.

to Occurrences 11%

If by partial opinion or reverence towards them, however begotten in the minds of men, they strive to overbear or discountenance a good cause, their faults (so far as truth permitteth and need requireth) may be detected and displayed.

at Occurrences 10%

She always seemed to be tugging and striving at her load, and trying to step out fast and do a great deal of work.

through Occurrences 8%

The mind, whether praying or scorning, That tempts those dread secrets shall fail; But strive through the night till the morning, And mightily shalt thou prevail.

as Occurrences 5%

And now Frederic in turn would think and strive as Gervais's devoted lieutenant, in the great common task.

within Occurrences 3%

The Spirits of all three shall strive within me.

among Occurrences 3%

The Christians were more concerned in striving among themselves than in crushing the prostrate spirit of antiquity.

towards Occurrences 3%

Moreover men were still very far from such a striving towards universal peace as would have induced a patient study of the means of bringing the different peoples into close spiritual relationship, and therefore from an endeavour to understand the spiritual life of races different to their own.

towards Occurrences 3%

The writers appear to have been conscious that their work was striving towards a form which had not yet been achieved, though they were themselves vague as to what that form might be.

on Occurrences 2%

The more the younger patricians strove to insinuate themselves into favour with the plebeians, the more strenuously did the tribunes strive on the other hand to render them suspicious in the eyes of the commons by alleging that a conspiracy had been formed; that Cæso was in Rome; that plans had been concerted for assassinating the tribunes, for butchering the commons.

to Occurrences 2%

Oh, then I feare the striving to expresse The virtue of a good wife hath begot An utter ruine of all goodnesse in thee.

from Occurrences 2%

Restless endeavor, incessant striving from lower spheres of life to higher ones, from the sensuous to the spiritual, from enjoyment to work, from creed to deed, from self to humanitythis is the moving thought of Goethe's completed Faust.

without Occurrences 2%

Lord Russell was bent upon introducing a Reform Bill, and thus closing his career in forwarding the cause in which he had won his earliest and most famous laurels, and for which he had on two other occasions striven without success.

with Occurrences 1%

Butafter his strivings with jealousy, and his defeatit was balm that she should depend upon him, and want him with her in this adventure.

between Occurrences 1%

I saw her going," she cried, striving between fear and anger.

during Occurrences 1%

"My love," answered Oswald, trying to calm himself, "I shall strive during my absence to restore to you your due rank in your father's country.

Which preposition to use with  striving