Which preposition to use with utterances

of Occurrences 396%

But why weary myself and thee with the utterance of so many words?

to Occurrences 172%

And while thus buzzing freely from fall to fall, he is frequently heard giving utterance to a long outdrawn train of unmodulated notes, in no way connected with his song, but corresponding closely with his flight in sustained vigor.

in Occurrences 53%

The surgeon went to the captain, and the others could hear his deep, abrupt utterance in reply to some question too low for their ears.

for Occurrences 14%

Sometimes great writers use ornate utterance for humorous effects.

on Occurrences 13%

The rapt and impassioned attention which she was observed to bestow on his utterances on such occasions all but gained her the reputation of a saint, and was accepted as a sufficient set-off against the unhallowed affection which she could not help manifesting for the memory of her father.

as Occurrences 12%

It is such utterances as these which have given, for now many hundred years, their priceless value to the little book of Psalms ascribed to the shepherd outlaw of the Judaean hills.

with Occurrences 11%

He accompanied the utterance with a bang of the ruler that made the desk before him rattle.

from Occurrences 11%

Sometimes, however, all these means will fail in effecting an utterance from the child, which will lie, with livid lips and a flaccid body, every few minutes opening its mouth with a short gasping pant, and then subsiding into a state of pulseless inaction, lingering probably some hours, till the spasmodic pantings growing further apart, it ceases to exist. 2465.

at Occurrences 7%

And when he found utterance at last to his words, they were so choaked with tears, that Timon had much ado to know him again, or to make out who it was that had come (so contrary to the experience he had had of mankind) to offer him service in extremity.

by Occurrences 5%

Now in ordinary speech most of us use words, not as individual things, but as parts of a wholeas cogs in the machine of utterance by which we convey our thoughts and feelings.

into Occurrences 5%

they were no way stilled by my magnetism; on the contrary, they threw their sarcastic utterances into my teeth, as it were, and shamed me to my very face.

than Occurrences 4%

Sir John Davies's treatise is not only far more poetic in image and utterance than that of Lord Brooke, but is far more clear in argument and firm in expression as well.

like Occurrences 4%

" Honeycutt all the time was whining like a feeble spirit in pain, his utterances like the final dwindlings of a mean-spirited dog.

against Occurrences 3%

Mrs. Cowan was not well read in the political situation of the day, and so did not know that Pearl had been guilty of heretical utterances against the Government.

without Occurrences 2%

Sound understanding, judgment true, Find utterance without art or rule; And when in earnest you are moved to speak, Then is it needful cunning words to seek?

among Occurrences 2%

It is more than probable that Morse did, while he was studying the French semaphores, and at an even earlier date, dream vaguely of the possibility of using electricity for conveying intelligence, and that he gave utterance among his intimates to these dreams; but the practical means of so utilizing this mysterious agent did not take shape in his mind until 1832.

during Occurrences 1%

Douglass's utterances during this period breathed the fiery indignation which he felt when the slave-driver's whip was heard cracking over the free States, and all citizens were ordered to aid in the enforcement of this inhuman statute when called upon.

beyond Occurrences 1%

To moisten the sufferer's parched lips through the long night-watches, to bear up the drooping head, to lift the helpless limbs, to divine the want that can find no utterance beyond the feeble motion of the hand or beseeching glance of the eyethese are offices that demand no self-questionings, no casuistry, no assent to propositions, no weighing of consequences.

over Occurrences 1%

Here, almost within sight of the Orkneys, I heard the clatter of the reaping machine, which, doubtless, puts out the same utterance over and upon the sea at Land's End.

amid Occurrences 1%

When you consider that he lived in a time when the church was struggling for utterance amid the horrors of persecution, his mad Christianity becomes singularly attractive; a passionate fear of beauty for reason of its temptations, a fear that turned to hatred, and forced him at last into the belief that Christ was an ugly man.

throughout Occurrences 1%

She perceived with certainty from Sarah's eager and yet apologetic tone, that the question had been waiting for utterance throughout the evening, and that Sarah had lacked courage for it until the kiss had enheartened her.

across Occurrences 1%

Their hearts had found utterance across the lips, and the future stood waiting for them on the threshold of a new existence, to usher them into a perpetual copartnership in all its joys and sorrows, its disappointments, its imperishable hopes, its aims, its conflicts, its rewards; and the truethe greatthe everlasting God of love was with them.

until Occurrences 1%

It was treasured up with a hate that found no fit utterance until the memorable Three Days of 1830; and when the insurgents stormed the Tuileries, their cries bore evidence that fifteen years had not diminished the bitter feeling engendered by that vindictive, unnecessary, and most impolitic act.

unto Occurrences 1%

For so thy Visible grew mine, Though half its power I could not know; And in me wrought a work divine, Which Thou hadst ordered so; Filling my brain with form and word From thy full utterance unto men; Shapes that might ancient Truth afford, And find it words again.

above Occurrences 1%

The stilted affectation of this self-conscious innocence is perhaps less evident in the scene in which we should most readily look for itthat, namely, in which the Lady defends herself from the persuasions of the Sorcerer, where a certain fervour of feeling raises her utterances above a merely colourless levelthan in the long soliloquy in which she indulges on first appearing on the stage.

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