Which preposition to use with studies

of Occurrences 4582%

A careful study of the MS.

in Occurrences 2011%

Moral evil must be studied in an energetic and intellectual way.

for Occurrences 380%

My sister asked me no questions; for it is not by any means the first time that I have kept to my study for a whole day, and sometimes a couple of days at a time, when I have been particularly engrossed in my books or work.

at Occurrences 311%

Young Dick was too impatient and too skeptical to wait until the end of the war, and, to the amazement of his aunts and the amusement of Acredale, he carried Rosa off, one day, and was secretly married in the rector's study at Warchester, so that his first son was born under the Stars and Bars in Richmond, while Dick was beleaguering the walls at Fort Walthall, four miles away.

with Occurrences 254%

It had been intended that Havelock should follow the law as a profession; and he was studying with this end in view when his father stopped the necessary supplies of money, and he had to turn to some other occupation for a living.

in Occurrences 226%

[I have discussed the various versions of Arthur's stay in Avalon in Studies in Fairy Mythology, chapter III.

under Occurrences 115%

She was much interested in his beginnings in England at Rugby and Cambridgeand was evidently astonished, though she had too much tact to show it, that he had chosen to make his life and career in France instead of accepting the proposition made to him by his cousin Waddington, then Dean of Durham, to remain in England and continue his classic and literary studies under his guidance.

on Occurrences 104%

I am no real scholar, but I study on a spurt.

on Occurrences 96%

Hakluyt's Voyages, in Everyman's Library; Jones's introduction to Hakluyt's Diverse Voyages; Payne's Voyages of Elizabethan Seamen; Froude's Essay, in Short Studies on Great Subjects.

from Occurrences 94%

My dad had suggested to Prof Ismail that I be given practical experience and so my programme included a mixture of study from books, taking down notes, watching and helping the others and finally making my own vermi-pits.

by Occurrences 92%

Vincy, with all his gentle manner, had in art an extraordinary taste for brutality and violence, and his rooms were covered with pictures by Futurists and Cubists, wild studies by wild men from Tahiti and a curious collection of savage ornaments and weapons.

to Occurrences 82%

I asked him to let me come and work in his study to-night.

OF Occurrences 55%

ADDINGTON SYMONDS AUTHOR OF 'RENAISSANCE IN ITALY' 'STUDIES OF THE GREEK POETS' 'SKETCHES IN ITALY AND GREECE' 'INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF DANTE' [Greek: Chruseon chalkeia] 1878 TO S.F.A. PREFATORY NOTE.

as Occurrences 53%

Looks like he ain't studying as to whether you got money or not.

into Occurrences 24%

The one leading from my study into the gardens, was the last to which I went.

than Occurrences 23%

He is not a premature genius; he is not, I frankly own, more advanced in his classical and mathematical studies than some children even younger than himself; but he has acquired the rudiments of health; he has laid in a store of honesty and good-humour which are not less likely to advance him in life than mere science and language ... etc., etc., Your affectionate brother-in-law, CHARLES HONEYMAN.

without Occurrences 22%

His greatest pleasure was to retire to his house in the country, where he had a garden stored with all the herbs and trees which the climate would bear; here he used to enjoy his hours unmolested, and prosecute his studies without interruption.

during Occurrences 20%

For four years he performed the duties of this Professorship, with what ability is shown by his Treatise on the Evidences of Christianity, the fruit of his studies during this interval.

about Occurrences 17%

They are these six virtues, cared for without care for any study about them:philanthropy, wisdom, faithfulness, straightforwardness, courage, firmness.

over Occurrences 15%

Well I studied over it, an' finally I concluded to jest dig up the half-mile post, an' put it one hundred feet nearer home.

among Occurrences 13%

When evening came he would stride cheerily along the dingy street to the house where he and his fellow-workman lodged, refresh himself with a hot bath, don what he called his dress suit, and after their simple meal and a frolic with little Dick, the motherless boy who was the joy of Richard Trueman's heart, he would settle down for a long evening of study among his cherished books.

for Occurrences 10%

On the Pentathlon may be consulted an article by Professor Percy Gardner in the Journal of Hellenic Studies for October, 1880; and also Smith's Dictionary of Antiquities (revised edition).]

before Occurrences 8%

Here I went, scrimping the other business of the day in order that I might be at my studies before the rush set in up town.

like Occurrences 8%

This boy he had found, with a name that might be either prophecy or mockery, he would study like a book.

between Occurrences 6%

At one time of my life I had taken it into my head that it was not wholesome to study between breakfast and dinner.

Which preposition to use with  studies