Which preposition to use with tuning

of Occurrences 211%

That valley is hemmed in by high and steep hills, and at the tune of which I speak, was much more beautiful in my view than it is now.

with Occurrences 86%

My words were too much in tune with his declared opinions for him to gainsay them.

to Occurrences 64%

Never shall you hear anything wintry from his warm breast; no pinched cheeping, no wavering notes between sorrow and joy; his mellow, fluty voice is ever tuned to downright gladness, as free from dejection as cock-crowing.

in Occurrences 52%

So, humming a savage tune in make-belief of no embarrassment at all in regard to his recently disordered garment, Mr. BUMSTEAD reaches his boarding-house.

for Occurrences 37%

Breakfast done, I whistled a tune for him before he went to work, curious to see how he would be affected by it.

on Occurrences 33%

The difference between country and city bringing-up is the point aimed at; and the difference is about as great as that between the warbling of woodside birds and the jingle of one of OFFENBACH'S tunes on a corner barrel-organ.

from Occurrences 14%

"And there is pleasing Alcon, could he raise His tunes from lays to matters of more skill;" and he adds that Spenser calls Lodge Alcon, from one of the characters in "A Looking Glasse for London and Englande;" but this argument would apply just as much to Lodge's coadjutor Greene.

by Occurrences 13%

A few classy nurses like the Mercy Militia Sextet, some live, grand-old-flag tunes by Harry Mordelle, and there's a half a million dollars in that show.

of Occurrences 9%

From the wings comes the tuning of the violins.

into Occurrences 8%

Mr. Baum was the first person in America who was able to tune into Oz, and he wrote many history books on this land.

like Occurrences 7%

Sing, Syren, sing And swell me with revenge sweet as the straines Falls from the Thrasian lyre; charme each sence With musick of Revenge, let Innocence In softest tunes like the expiring Swann Dy singing her owne Epitaph.

after Occurrences 6%

There was one musician who played tunes after the twelve different modes of the Kathayans.

as Occurrences 6%

Why such a tune as never was, nor ever shall be heard.

without Occurrences 5%

There was James Shewfelt, who was a drummer, and could play the tunes without the fife at all.

through Occurrences 5%

He looked steadily at Lady Maud for a moment, then smiled faintly, looked away, and began to blow his little tune through his teeth again.

at Occurrences 5%

I doe thinke What cursed Balletts will be made upon me And sung to divilish tunes at faire and Marketts To call in cutpurses.

between Occurrences 4%

My father was whistling a tune between his teeth while polishing with his bare hand a red stone pipe he had recently carved.

Than Occurrences 3%

Come, kind-hearted man, That speaks his wife so fairay, now and then; I know you would not for an hundreth pound, That I should hear your voice's churlish sound; I know you have a far more milder tune Than "Peace, be quiet, wife;" but I have done. Will ye go home?

under Occurrences 2%

And he gave a slight cough, and began to arrange his necktie with a disgracefully consequential air, though he was trying very hard not to look conceited; and while he was endeavouring to appear easy and gracefully careless, he began accidentally to hum, "See the Conquering Hero Comes," which was not the right tune under the circumstances.

for Occurrences 2%

The Alkire tuning for Eharp (continued) By Elbern H. Alkire.

before Occurrences 2%

He must sing four tunes before reaching it.

about Occurrences 1%

Judging that it would be better for those verses to be regularly married to music, than that they should form temporary connexions with any rambling tunes about town, Mr. J. Blewitt has at last kindly provided them with airs that are airs of character, and made their alliance with music of the correct and permanent kind.

down Occurrences 1%

The doors and windows were all shut, so that he caught only a faint sound of the bump, thump of the scrubbing-brush as it accompanied Henri's high-pitched tune down the back stairs.

beyond Occurrences 1%

Steam whistles pitched a tune beyond the fixed stars.

out Occurrences 1%

Upon laying down the Knife, he took up a Pair of clean Tobacco Pipes; and after having slid the small End of them over the Table in a most melodious Trill, he fetched a Tune out of them, whistling to them at the same time in Consort.

Which preposition to use with  tuning