Which preposition to use with sunday

in Occurrences 206%

There was no polo nor golf nor automobilesnot many carriages, a good tennis-court, where W. played regularly, and races every Sunday in August, which brought naturally a gay young crowd of all the sporting world.

after Occurrences 106%

Easter, then, is the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon (i.e., the full moon which happens upon or next after March 21st).

of Occurrences 81%

Quarter Tenses fall on the Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays after the third Sunday of Advent, after the first Sunday of Lent; after Pentecost Sunday, and after the feast of the exaltation of the Cross.

at Occurrences 78%

It is difficult to imagine the conversation of such a household; family life exists only on Sunday at dinner-time; the child's background of family life is a room which is at once a bedroom, living room and laundry.

WITH Occurrences 47%

OH, THAT'S MY COOK, TAKING HER SUNDAY WITH THE GROCER'S YOUNG MAN.

to Occurrences 30%

The Te Deum is always said at the end of Matins, unless in Matins of Feast of Holy Innocents, of Sundays of Advent, and from Septuagesima to Palm Sunday, and ferias outside Eastertide (from Low Sunday to Ascension Day).

for Occurrences 24%

Sir Walter Scott says that 'Reynolds observed the charge given him by Johnson on his death-bed not to use his pencil of a Sunday for a considerable time, but afterwards broke it, being persuaded by some person who was impatient for a sitting that the Doctor had no title to exact such a promise.'

before Occurrences 14%

These crimes were plainly responsible for the Pazzi conspiracy in 1478 against the Medici themselves, a conspiracy which resulted in Giuliano, the younger brother of Lorenzo, being murdered in the cathedral, during mass, on the Sunday before Ascension, while Lorenzo himself was slightly wounded.

on Occurrences 14%

He is going to preach next Sunday on the moral progress of social sciences, and next month he commences his series of sermons on the social problems of the day.

by Occurrences 11%

There are those who would say that I dealt unfairly last Sunday by the Psalms of David; that in order to prove them inspired, I ignored an element in them which is plainly uninspired, wrong, and offensive; namely, the curses which he invokes upon his enemies.

from Occurrences 7%

And Forraigne Mart for Implements of warre: Why such impresse of Ship-wrights, whose sore Taske Do's not diuide the Sunday from the weeke, What might be toward, that this sweaty hast Doth make the Night ioynt-Labourer with the day: Who is't that can informe me?

as Occurrences 5%

From the Abbey of Cluny originated that quaint mediaeval idea of the "truce of God," by which nobles were very widely persuaded to restrict their private wars to the middle of the week, and reserve at least Friday, Saturday, and Sunday as days of brotherly love and religious devotion.

during Occurrences 4%

" The arrangement was happily completed, and for a few days the coach of Mr. Jarvis bore about the titled dame, until one unlucky day the merchant, who still went on 'change when any great bargain in the stocks was to be made, arrived at his own door suddenly, to procure a calculation he had made on the leaf of his prayer-book the last Sunday during sermon.

into Occurrences 3%

Mrs. Egg beat down her sobs with both hands and decried the radio service that could turn Sunday into Tuesday.

between Occurrences 3%

SINKING A GERMAN SUBMARINE On August 12 there came from Edinburgh the story of an eyewitness of a naval battle in the North Sea on the previous Sunday between British cruisers and German submarines, in which the German submarine U-15 was sunk.

until Occurrences 3%

4. From Passion Sunday until Wednesday in Holy Week it is "Faciem meam" (Isaias, 1.), 5. From Easter Sunday to the Vigil of Ascension inclusive, the short lesson is "Si consurrexists" (Coloss. iii.).

about Occurrences 3%

As soon as he entered the church he was formally instructed by a committee of the leading members that before he began to open the services, he must make it plain to the congregation that what he had said on the preceding Sunday about every woman being possessed by seven devils was Scripture truth, and not mere wicked nonsense out of his own brain.

through Occurrences 2%

"This is the hat I purchased in the High, Still crude and young and ignorant of sin; I wooed you in this hatI don't know why; This is the hat that I was married in; In it I walked on Sunday through the parks, And even then the people made remarks.

like Occurrences 2%

Where is Catherine? First Hag: Is it readying the dinner before you, or wringing out a shirt for the Sunday like any good slave of a wife, you are used to find your woman, McDonough? McDonough: What call would she have stopping in the house with the withered like of yourself?

against Occurrences 2%

To add to my discomfort, deep and loud were the murmurs on Sunday against the Duke.

off Occurrences 2%

Their places were not, however, filled by men, and now, they are receiving for their ten-hour day $1.90 or 15 cents more than they had previously been paid for a twelve-hour day, and in addition they now are given every third Sunday off duty.

over Occurrences 2%

You know that it is not to go, like the daughters of Zion in Isaiah's time, with mincing gait, and borrowed head-gear, and tasteless finery, the head well-nigh empty, the heart full of little save vanity and vexation of spirit, busy all the week over cheap novels and expensive dresses, and on Sunday over a little dilettante devotion.

throughout Occurrences 2%

The general rule laid down is that on Sundays throughout the year the proper office of the Sunday shall always be said.

without Occurrences 1%

Yet, even here,lost in some far-reaching avenue of pines, where one could hardly walk upon a summer Sunday without such sense of joy as would move him to tears,even here all the movements of the earth and the heavens hint of most jubilant triumph.

entertainmentsagainst Occurrences 1%

Her moral and religious principles were known by the firm stand she took against common incentives to dissipation and irreligionsuch as card-playing and Sunday entertainmentsagainst the introduction of questionable topics, unseemly language, and vacuous frivolity into conversation.

Which preposition to use with  sunday