Which preposition to use with urgings

of Occurrences 13%

Jack refused the prayerful urgings of the juniors, who pleaded tearfully to join him.

to Occurrences 4%

" Willie never required any urging to what his father wished.

on Occurrences 3%

The young of all animalsman among the restappear to have such an instinctive fondness for amusement, that so long as they are unrestrained, they seldom need any urging on this point.

from Occurrences 3%

"They have come with the expedition through no urging from me.

for Occurrences 2%

Kent heard the chink of coin and the low-spoken urgings for haste at the receiving clerk's window; but he forbore to move until the cab had rattled away.

in Occurrences 2%

The British government had done its best for the Loyalists in the treaty of peace and had urged Carleton, who needed no urging in such a cause, to do his best as well.

of Occurrences 1%

After this Miss Prescott could make but a poor stand against the united urgings of five impetuous, enthusiastic young people.

by Occurrences 1%

Kossuth was present at the Diet of 1832, when the Government, which conducted itself most brutally and arbitrarily toward the press, refused to allow the newspapers to print reports of the deliberations of the Diet in spite of the repeated urgings by the Deputies for such an authorization, and it was owing to his ingenuity that this prohibition was evaded.

toward Occurrences 1%

Her talk that morning, many weeks ago, that had seemed to ramble so from one irrelevant matter to another,from the parable to her fancy-traveling, the scenes and pleasures she had made for herself, wondering if the real would ever come; to the linen-drawer, representing her little feminine absorptions and interests; and back to the fig-tree again, ending with that word,"the real living is the urging toward the fruit"?

as Occurrences 1%

Thus far we have the influence of classical rhetoric urging as an ideal for poetry formal correctness.

Which preposition to use with  urgings