Which preposition to use with tenement

of Occurrences 38%

wou'd it become me, think ye?he's mighty full of Cogitabundmy Lord,sure his Soul has left the Tenement of his BodyI have his Bills here, and care not if it never return more.

in Occurrences 15%

He did not seem to suffer, but his hold of life gradually gave way, and the spirit was about to take its departure, purely on account of the decayed condition of the earthly tenement in which it had so long dwelt, as the stork finally deserts the tottering chimney.

for Occurrences 8%

LEASES.A lease is an instrument in writing, by which one person grants to another the occupation and use of lands or tenements for a term of years for a consideration, the lessor granting the lease, and the lessee accepting it with all its conditions.

at Occurrences 7%

A tyrant, an oppressor, a bad landlord, a man who lets miserable tenements at a rack-rent (to come down to particulars), and exposes his wretched tenants to all those abominations of which we have heard so muchwell!

on Occurrences 4%

II THE LITHOGRAPHER'S APPRENTICE Later on the same day, in a little narrow chamber of one of the huge, dirty tenements on Vosnesenski Prospekt, sat a young man of ruddy complexion.

by Occurrences 3%

Tom Marlin had a queer old stone tenement by the edge of the lake just under Mardykes Hall.

with Occurrences 3%

The two honest men (for so let me now distinguish them) thought their three countrymen only jested, and one of them invited them in, to see their fine habitations; while the other facetiously told them 'that since they built tenements with great improvements, they should, according to the custom of lords, give them a longer lease;' at the same time desiring them to fetch a scriviner to draw the writings.

to Occurrences 2%

Thus in 1454 Emot Dowte gave several tenements to this altar and in 1492 Richard Clyff "late parson of St. George in London," left a house in Well St. to the church "to the intent that the mass of Our Lady may be observed the better."

without Occurrences 1%

The Massachusetts law as at present forbids work upon clothing except by members of the family in any tenement without license, and thereupon subjects the premises to the inspection of the police, and registers of all help must be kept.

beyond Occurrences 1%

He owns it, and all those miserable tenements beyond it, and nothing will move him an inch towards doing any good there!"

during Occurrences 1%

Window-blinds, grates, stoves, coffee-mills, and, in a general sense, everything he has placed which can be removed without injury to the freehold, he may remove, if they are separated from the tenement during his term, and the place made good.

from Occurrences 1%

The spirit of the mighty dead seemed to hover around, as a sort of genius loci, rescuing the wretched tenement from otherwise deserved oblivion, and making its very dinginess venerable!

like Occurrences 1%

They swarm in great tenements like flies; six households will live in a garret.

near Occurrences 1%

The third and fourth balloons let fall their dejectiles, the one among the tenements near Tompkins Square destroying an entire block of houses simultaneously; the other on High Bridge, completely shattering that structure, and so breaking the aqueduct through which the city obtains its water supply.

over Occurrences 1%

I felt sorrier and sorrier for her, though, as she went on down Cambridge Street, past all those liquor and provision and second-hand furniture shops, with the tenements over them, and I was so thankful for her when she turned out of all this, and we crossed over and went into a quiet old street, and came out upon the pretty grounds of the Massachusetts Hospital; and as soon as I saw these grounds, I said, 'Oh, how pretty!'

as Occurrences 1%

I've seen life float away On the faint sound of a far tolling bell Leaving its late warm tenement as fair, As though 'twere th' incorruptible that lay Before meand all earthly taint had vanish'd With the departed spirit.

Which preposition to use with  tenement