Which preposition to use with urges

on Occurrences 185%

" Now this is precisely what the New York hackman invariably does before he gathers up the reins and urges on his "galled jades."

in Occurrences 156%

In short, having made up their minds that what I said was not true, they had an answer ready for all that I could urge in support of my character; and those who judged most christianly, defended my veracity at the expense of my understanding, and ascribed my conduct to partial insanity.

against Occurrences 116%

If Gifford was doubtful as to the expediency of the plan, and it was with a considerable amount of hesitation that he brought himself to agree to it, he seemed to have no good reason to urge against it.

to Occurrences 79%

He urged to them that the nations of the earth felt so much jealousy and ill-will towards one another, that they never cordially co-operated in any enterprise for their common interest or glory; and that if any one nation were to send an army into the moon, such a scheme of ambition would afford at once a temptation and pretext for its neighbours to invade it.

with Occurrences 54%

Full well he knew that he would ne'er return again How vehement and how beautiful they swept The Grey of Macha and the Black most bold And keen-eyed Laegh, the watchful and adept, Nor turn'd, nor spake, as on the chariot roll'd The steeds he urged with his red goad of gold

as Occurrences 50%

The paintings, or rather the stupendous architectural designs, of a modern artist, have been urged as objections to the theory of our motto.

for Occurrences 35%

And yet the right to secede was urged for many years, but Lincoln completed the work of Washington, Franklin, Madison and Hamilton by establishing that "a government for the people, by the people and of the people should not perish from the earth.

of Occurrences 26%

Desire is the ceaseless life-urge of all things, from amoeba to archangel.

at Occurrences 10%

It was urged at one time, that the best road would have the grades undulating from one end to the other,so that the momentum acquired in one descent would carry the train almost over the succeeding ascent; and that very little steam-power would be needed.

from Occurrences 6%

It was now urged from the right quarter, and in a manner that was as sincere as it was gratifying.

by Occurrences 6%

That urged by thee, I turned the tuneful art From sounds to things, from fancy to the heart; For wit's false mirror held up Nature's light; Shewed erring pride, Whatever is, is right; That reason, passion, answer one great aim; That true self-love and social are the same; That virtue only, makes our bliss below; And all our knowledge is, ourselves to know.

along Occurrences 5%

Then as the pocket-like valves prevent the backward flow of the blood, the pressure of the various muscles of the body urges along the blood, and thus promotes the onward flow.

beyond Occurrences 4%

It is advisable, therefore, to give a sufficient calorimeter in all low pressure boilers, and a sufficient height of chimney to enable the chimney to operate without a steam jet; but it is useful to know that a steam jet is a resource in the case of a defective boiler, or where the boiler has to be urged beyond its power.

into Occurrences 3%

He asks from two to four annas for the prayer sheet and finds many a purchaser in the crowd; and now and again he rolls the sheet into a thin tube and ties it round the neck of a sick child or round the arm of a sick woman, whom faith in Allah urges into the presence of the peripathetic healer.

through Occurrences 3%

The blood of the animal having completed its course through all parts, and having had its waste recruited by the digested food, is now received into the heart, and by the action of that organ it is urged through the lungs, there to receive its purification from the air which the animal inhales.

out Occurrences 2%

Dan Dalzell, who had been thunderstruck, and who was now full of questions, was being urged out of the room by Dave.

toward Occurrences 2%

I don't see how a murderer could ever be regarded as assisting in the onward urge toward sweetness and light, exactly.

across Occurrences 2%

But we little know until tried how much of the uncontrollable there is in us, urging across glaciers and torrents, and up dangerous heights, let the judgment forbid as it may.

within Occurrences 1%

XIV Impelled by an urge within himself Ben suddenly knelt beside his lupine friend.

amongst Occurrences 1%

Whilst joining in humble and pious energy with the two Spanish priests, the two monks of Citeaux, and Peter de Castelnau especially, did not cease to urge amongst the laic princes the extirpation of the heretics.

like Occurrences 1%

"And yet I think that sometimes memories Of divers trysts, of blood that urged like wine On moonlit nights, and of that first long kiss Whereby your lips were first made one with mine, Awake and trouble you, and loving is Once more important and perhaps divine." ALLEN ROSSITER.

onto Occurrences 1%

And here, in their hour of sickness and suffering, lay those whose health and strength are spent in unrequited labour for usthose who, perhaps even yesterday, were being urged onto their unpaid taskthose whose husbands, fathers, brothers and sons, were even at that hour sweating over the earth, whose produce was to buy for us all the luxuries which health can revel in, all the comforts which can alleviate sickness.

past Occurrences 1%

Still protesting, he allowed himself to be urged past the open doors of the inn-yardin the black depths of which the gleam of a lanthorn, and the form of a man moving to and fro, indicated that the strangers' horses were not yet beddedand up the hospitable steps of the Angel Inn.

than Occurrences 1%

The zamorin also approached with the land army, doing his utmost to force the passage of the ford; but all their efforts were in vain, although this second battle was more fiercely urged than the first.

throughout Occurrences 1%

He would urge throughout Italy a reformation of morals.

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