Which preposition to use with traits

of Occurrences 478%

The spirit of indignant hatred and contempt with which he regarded the mass of humanity; his quiet and powerful perception of their failings, errors, and crimes; his zeal for liberty and freedom of thought, tended at once to generalize, while it embittered, his satire, and to change traits of personal severity for that deep shade of censure which Gulliver's Travels throw upon mankind universally."

in Occurrences 163%

I liked the trait in him, for I take it to be a mark of a wise man that he knows what he can do, and is not ashamed to admit what he cannot.

to Occurrences 6%

But, in becoming so, it loses nothing of the peculiar Indian stamp, but only carries these traits to their perfection.

from Occurrences 6%

Another little trait from a play of those far-past days illustrates the same point.

among Occurrences 4%

But Rousseau came from Switzerland, where the passion for personal independence was greater than in any other part of Europe,a passion perhaps inherited from the old Teutonic nations in their forests, on which Tacitus dilates, next to their veneration for woman the most interesting trait among the Germanic barbarians.

about Occurrences 4%

"All we know is that when this boy, Roland Chase, left Sagamere, almost two years back, he was a sickly, white-faced chap, and with only one decent trait about him, which was his love for outdoors; though up to then it had been mostly a yearning, because they wouldn't let him get away from the house much on account of his delicate constitution.

as Occurrences 3%

He was as full of faults, and as lacking in amiable and reliable traits as any fellow of my acquaintance.

by Occurrences 3%

Seemingly he had inherited straight from the youngest days of the earth those traits by which aboriginal man conquered the wild.

into Occurrences 2%

Moreover, they seem to act upon a particular locale in different degrees, which is the strongest argument against the resolution of a number of structural traits into Mendelian unit characters.

for Occurrences 2%

He did not know that this very trait for which he had loved her, and which now made him afraid, had already been tested again and again; and that her love for him and trust in him, had stood against every attack as firmly as great rocks stand against shallow waves.

with Occurrences 2%

INTERNAL SECRETION VARIETIES There is no better way of illustrating the influence of the internal secretions upon the normal than the analysis of the variation of traits with variations in glandular predominances.

on Occurrences 1%

Perhaps even well-developed arms are not so essential to female beauty as erectness of figure, a trait on which our low school-desks have made sad havoc.

than Occurrences 1%

2 You are to give my titular makeshift, then, a wide interpretation; and are always to remember that in the bleak, florid age these tales commemorate this Chivalry was much the rarelier significant of any personal trait than of a world-wide code in consonance with which all estimable people lived and died.

through Occurrences 1%

For the child that is to be born will have to bear a similar trait through its whole life; for instance, if a woman stoops but a little, it is possible for her son to be inflicted with a hunchback; and so in every other respect.

after Occurrences 1%

I have a hundred times heard him say that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind can devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it.

under Occurrences 1%

Nor is he false to these traits under any guise,worshipping at unbloody altars, a favorite of the Unseen, Wisest, and Best.

without Occurrences 1%

Of the multitude of different photographers, each perchance may catch some one trait without which the whole portraiture would have remained incomplete; and the time to secure this is now, while his features are fresh in our minds.

at Occurrences 1%

It seems as if the parental traits at one time showed separate, at another blended,that occasionally the force of two natures is represented in the derivative one by a diagonal of greater value than either original line of living movement,that sometimes there is a loss of vitality hardly to be accounted for, and again a forward impulse of variable intensity in some new and unforeseen direction.

Which preposition to use with  traits