Which preposition to use with surprize

at Occurrences 32%

I expressed some surprize at Cadogan's recommending good humour, as if it were quite in our own power to attain it.

in Occurrences 11%

Your father is very surprizing if he persists in standing at Huntingdon; but there is nothing surprizing in such a world as this.

with Occurrences 7%

M'Quarrie's house was mean; but we were agreeably surprized with the appearance of the master, whom we found to be intelligent, polite, and much a man of the world.

of Occurrences 6%

To the evident surprize of the Opposition he sketched a definite plan for curtailing the veto of the House of Lords.

to Occurrences 5%

The outbreak of war between Italy and Turkey came as a surprize to the great majority of the European public, and even in Italy until the last moment few believed that the crisis would come to a head so soon.

into Occurrences 3%

By this means it often happens, that when you come to know how you lost such an Employment, you will find the Man who got it never dreamed of it; but, forsooth, he was to be surprized into it, or perhaps sollicited to receive it.

than Occurrences 3%

"The Pleasure with which you received my Spy on the Conjurer, encourages me to offer you a little Supplement to it, having since my finishing that Book, had the opportunity of discovering something concerning Mr. Campbell, which I believe your Lordship will allow to be infinitely more surprizing than any Thing I have yet related."

for Occurrences 2%

Peronne is chiefly remarkable in history for never having been taken, and for a tower where Louis XI. was confined for a short time, after being outwitted in a manner somewhat surprizing for a Monarch who piqued himself on his talents for intrigue, by Charles le Temeraire, Duke of Burgundy.

on Occurrences 1%

For which reason he resolved to attempt to take the town of the Conception by surprize on the way to Xaragua, and to kill the lieutenant, and if this plan did not succeed to besiege him there.

Which preposition to use with  surprize