Which preposition to use with tale

of Occurrences 2787%

And there seated in the opening of our little tent, I began the strange tale of The House on the Borderland (for such was the title of the MS.); this is told in the following pages.

from Occurrences 269%

For her the Lambs wrote The King and Queen of Hearts (by Charles Lamb), 1805; Tales from Shakespear, 1807; The Adventures of Ulysses (by Charles Lamb), 1808; Mrs. Leicester's School and Poetry for Children, 1809; and Prince Dorus (by Charles Lamb), 1811.

in Occurrences 159%

" [Footnote 26: "The Fairy-Tale in Education," by Greville Macdonald, M.D., Child Life, Dec. 1918.]

for Occurrences 103%

I don't know anybody I could get to come forward and swear Fred was in their company that nightthere is a difference between fixing up a tale for the police before a man's arrested, and going into the witness box and committing perjury on oath.

about Occurrences 88%

Now, you know how a fellow gets to hate to go before the medical officers of the Academy with a tale about his teeth.

to Occurrences 83%

" "Can you relate this tale to us in a few words?" "I will try.

with Occurrences 47%

* Two Styles: A Tale with a Moral.

by Occurrences 31%

"PUNCHINELLO will prove a pillar of strength to Tammany Hall, unless the siege of Paris should prove disastrous to the consumption of lager-bier, as set forth in 'Boiled for her Bones' and other tales by the best authors.

as Occurrences 27%

Where is the carefully trained and upright soul that would not reject "JACK, the Giant-killer," or "Goody Two-shoes," if it could substitute (say, from "New and True Stories for Children,") a tale as thrilling as this:

on Occurrences 20%

"Do you boys think that I'd spring so thin a tale on ye, if it wasn't true?

out Occurrences 18%

Tell no tales out of school.

at Occurrences 14%

We hear the most improbable tales at this distance.

like Occurrences 12%

Old miners drifting about the desert edges, weathered into the semblance of the tawny hills, will tell you tales like these convincingly.

into Occurrences 11%

My Tales (again) and Charles's Farce has made the boy mad to turn Author; and he has written a Farce, and he has made the Winter's Tale into a story; but what Charles says of himself is really true of Martin, for he can make nothing at all of it; and I have been talking very eloquently this morning, to convince him that nobody can write farces, &c., under thirty years of age.

against Occurrences 9%

"Because, sir, it is contrary to the spirit of the brigade of midshipmen to carry tales against each other.

than Occurrences 8%

Better a short tale than a bad long shriving: Needes anie more to learne to get a living?" "Now sure, and by my hallidome," quoth he 545 "Yea great master are in your degree: Great thankes I yeeld you for your discipline, And doo not doubt but duly to encline

before Occurrences 8%

Yet in his face he sends his tale before him.

without Occurrences 7%

In the former impression they gave twenty prints, illustrative of the twenty tales which compose these volumes, for they knew that it was a grievous thing and a disappointment to a child, to find some tales without the recommendation of a print, which the others possessed.

among Occurrences 4%

For undoubtedly there is no one tale among all the Poetes, but under the same is comprehended something that parteineth, either to the amendment of maners, to the knowledge of the trueth to the setting forth of Nature's work, or els the understanding of some notable thing done.... As Plutarch saieth: and likewise Basilius Magnus:

after Occurrences 4%

Tale after tale, jest after jest, fell from Wilhelm's lips.

within Occurrences 3%

Moreover, the friends who had spoken to him of Giuditta Astarita had told him similar tales within a few days.

over Occurrences 1%

He spies on lovers as they pass unsuspecting; he haunts the ale-houses and overhears men's tales over their cups; if business be dull he even devises scandal among neighbors, and sets them at enmity.

through Occurrences 1%

Like the winds telling tales through the leaves of an ancient oak, unfallen, may our church chimes repeat my thanks to the press.

è Occurrences 1%

d' anima grande Uom denso; e tale è ben chi qui la spande.

under Occurrences 1%

The shadows and the generations, the shrill doctors and the plangent wars, go by into ultimate silence and emptiness; but underneath all this, a man may see, out of the Belvedere windows, much green and peaceful landscape; many firelit parlours; good people laughing, drinking, and making love as they did before the Flood or the French Revolution; and the old shepherd telling his tale under the hawthorn.

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