Which preposition to use with tie

to Occurrences 653%

Learning is not tied to it, or to any one person, demonstration, interpretation, event, or epoch.

of Occurrences 444%

The Chinese, Japanese, Persians, Greeks, and Roumanians wore their national dressand much better they look in them than in the ordinary dress coat and white tie of our men.

with Occurrences 206%

For a long time, I kept my gaze fixed upon it; feeling, in my lonely soul, that its soft haze was, in some way, a tie with the past.

in Occurrences 177%

she cried, flopping down on the table-cloth a bulky wad tied in one corner of her handkerchief.

on Occurrences 115%

Where cities are sufficiently near each other for games to be alternated daily, it would perhaps be fairer to spectators to do so, irrespective of ties; yet it seems to me that a tie on one grounds should be played off the next day in the same city.

between Occurrences 83%

My standards are out-of-date, perhaps, and in any event they are not your standards, and that difference has broken many ties between us; but I am the father of your child.

behind Occurrences 78%

" "I am, and the point is five thousand dollars that's tied behind the hoss that stands outside your door.

around Occurrences 57%

I gather from Nell that you're not tongue-tied around women!"

about Occurrences 53%

Enter Gayman in a Night-Cap, and an old Campaign Coat tied about him, very melancholy.

round Occurrences 49%

Cramp-rings were also used; and eelskins to this day are tied round the legs as a preventive of this spasmodic affection; and by laying sticks across the floor, on going to bed, cramp has also been prevented.

under Occurrences 37%

She was dressed" here Mary's voice began to be interrupted from time to time by a brief sob"in a long dress that made a soft sound when she walked, and a white shawl, and the lace tied under her chin in a large soft knot" "Mary, Mary!"

at Occurrences 30%

If there be any alloy in my fortune to have met with such a man, it is that he commonly divides his time between town and country, having some foolish family ties at Christchurch, by which means he can only gladden our London hemisphere with returns of light.

for Occurrences 28%

There was a book for her father in the shawl strap, "The Old Bibie and the New Science"; a pretty white cap for her mother, that Miss Prudence had fashioned; a cherry-silk tie for Linnet; and a couple of white aprons for Annie Grey, her mother's handmaiden, these last being also Miss Prudence's handiwork.

over Occurrences 27%

We generally wore black or dark dresses with a lace veil tied over our heads, and of course only went when it was fine.

into Occurrences 20%

In their stead, a coat tied into a tight bundle and a frying-pan before her.

than Occurrences 13%

No sooner, however, has the knot been securely tied than Guiliom, appearing in his sooty rags and with smutched face, publicly demands and humiliates his haughty bride.

across Occurrences 11%

There was no bridge over it, but only a creeper rope tied across from bank to bank.

by Occurrences 11%

The indispensable obligations of publick faith, the great ties by which nations are united, and confederacies formed, I cannot suppose any man inclined to invalidate.

from Occurrences 9%

O Háfiz, in Love's holy bane, As thy foot has at last made its way, Lay hold of his skirt with thy hand, And with all sever ties from to-day.

like Occurrences 7%

He brought no dress-suit for one thing, not even a dinner-jacket, and he wore very low collars with big balloon ties like a Frenchman, and let his hair grow longer than was nice, she felt.

as Occurrences 7%

When I turn over in my dreams I wake to find myself tied as with ropes.

before Occurrences 7%

If more than half the boys lost their ties before the supper bell rang the freshmen would be debarred from wearing the colors for that term.

among Occurrences 6%

The mule track, marked by Green, was easily found, and with very little difficulty I followed it for about two miles into the timber and came upon a place where, as I could plainly see from numerous signs, quite a number of head of stock had been tied among the trees and kept for several days.

beneath Occurrences 3%

She had taken off the picture-hat, and was swinging it absently to and fro by the black ribbons which had but now been tied beneath her round, white chin.

unto Occurrences 3%

Thy Syren's song could make me drown myself, But I am tied unto the mast of truth.

Which preposition to use with  tie