Which preposition to use with testify

to Occurrences 383%

"These rude men are but testifying to the great truth, that man is the creature, in a greater or less degree, of circumstances; that he is great or small, polished or rude, wise or simple, according to the accident of his birth, or the surroundings in the midst of which his journey of life lays.

against Occurrences 59%

He testified against all dues and cesses, against all customs and excises, taxes and burdens; against beer and ale and wines and tobacco; against mumming and peep-shows and dancing, and every sort of play; against Christmas and Easter and Pentecost and Hogmanay.

in Occurrences 48%

What then does an impartial survey of the positively ascertained truths of palaeontology testify in relation to the common doctrines of progressive modification, which suppose that modification to have taken place by a necessary progress from more to less embryonic forms, or from more to less generalised types, within the limits of the period represented by the fossiliferous rocks?

of Occurrences 26%

If you are not aware of this, the real meaning of a day of the Lord, a day of the Son of Man, let me entreat you to go and search the Scriptures for yourselves; for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of the Lord, of that Eternal Son of whom the second Psalm speaks, in words which mobs and tyrants, the atheist and the superstitious, are alike willing to forget.

for Occurrences 13%

His features were transformed, and he seemed almost as oblivious of the countless eyes upon him as she had been when she rose to testify for him in her self-forgetful enthusiasm.

on Occurrences 10%

The case had been placed in Simmonds's hands, and it was he who testified on behalf of the police, admitting candidly that they were all at sea.

before Occurrences 9%

"Will you come ashore and testify before the judge in behalf of your master?"

as Occurrences 8%

Besides Houver, Williams, Orme, Craig and Baker, another witness was called to testify as to the sale of the wood, and my having been in Washington the previous summer.

towards Occurrences 7%

But I may tell you truly that it gratified, and more than gratified me, by giving pleasure to my dear husband, as a token of your regard for him, so testified towards myself.

with Occurrences 7%

His every bark at a threatening baby-carriage a block away, each fresh time he believed sincerely that a rubber shoe was engaging in deadly struggle with him, taxing all his forces to subdue it, each time he testified with sensitive, twitching nostrils that the earth is good with innumerable scents, each streaking of his glad-tongued white length over yellowing fields designed solely for his recreation held for me a certain soothing value.

from Occurrences 7%

She testifies from personal knowledge to the hideous brutalities shown toward women and children by the Germany of to-day; and she adds the fine sentence: "Women fight for a place in the sun for those who hold right above might.

by Occurrences 5%

Was it not as well to be civil to such messengers from above?to testify by homage to them due awe of the being who had thrown them at men, and who though he had missed his shot that time might not miss it the next?

at Occurrences 5%

Dr. Frank Bickford, an ex-service man who participated in the affair, testified at the coroner's inquest that the Legion men were attempting to raid the union hall when they were killed.

without Occurrences 2%

If Buckheath has to stand trial, how are weany of usgoing to testify without making it hard on the Dawson crowd?

under Occurrences 2%

He testified under oath that "the fits were natural, but heightened by the devil's coöperating with the witches, at whose instance

unto Occurrences 1%

Then I testified unto them: Why lodge ye about the wall?

beforehand Occurrences 1%

In the first Epistle General of Peter we read: "Concerning which salvation the prophets sought and searched diligently who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you; searching what time or what manner of time the spirit of Christ which was in them did point unto, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that should follow them.

about Occurrences 1%

FIGURE Quispi Cusi Testifying about Inca Ruins FIGURE One of our Bearers Crossing the Pampaconas River On the day following our arrival at the town of Vilcabamba, the gobernador, Condoré, taking counsel with his chief assistant, had summoned the wisest Indians living in the vicinity, including a very picturesque old fellow whose name, Quispi Cusi, was strongly reminiscent of the days of Titu Cusi.

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