Which preposition to use with vicars

of Occurrences 334%

I was then reading "The Vicar of Wakefield," and had reached the middle of that interesting tale, on the morning of the festival, when my tranquillity was interrupted in the way I have mentioned.

in Occurrences 9%

There are three parsons at our Parish ChurchCanon Parr, who is the seventeenth vicar in a regular line of succession since the Reformation and two curates.

to Occurrences 8%

V. "Tut, tut!" said the Vicar to his breakfast thingsthe day after the coming of Mrs. Skinner.

from Occurrences 7%

A portrait of Walter Farquhar Hook, Vicar from 1828-37 and afterwards Dean of Chichester is hung here.

on Occurrences 7%

It was the sublime effort of Leo to make the Church the guardian of spiritual principles and give to it a theocratic character and aim, which links his name with the mightiest moral movements of the world; and when I speak of the Church I mean the Church of Rome, as presided over by men who claimed to be the successors of Saint Peter,to whom they assert Christ had given the supreme control over all other churches as His vicars on the earth.

for Occurrences 6%

So with loss or insufficiency of the thyroid, there may be pituitary overgrowth, because the pituitary may act as vicar for the thyroid.

with Occurrences 5%

He was not a great believer in the defence of insanityexcept, occasionally, that of the solicitor who set it upand consequently watched the Vicar with scrutinizing intensity.

of Occurrences 2%

At Rothbury, a pele-tower has formed the dwelling of the Vicars of that town from the time that any mention of Whitton Tower is to be found, it being first noticed as "Turris de Whitton, iuxta Rothebery."

as Occurrences 2%

They cleaned their boots on a Sunday morning while the bells were ringing, and walked down to their allotments, and came home and ate their cabbage, and were as oblivious of the vicar as the wind that blew.

at Occurrences 2%

At the present moment when he got into his carriage at the station to be taken home, he was not sure whether or no he should find the vicar at Babington.

about Occurrences 2%

Dr. George Young, certainly the most reliable authority on Cook's early years, who published a Life in 1836, went to Whitby as Vicar about 1805, and claims to have obtained much information about his subject "through intercourse with his relatives, friends, and acquaintances, including one or two surviving school companions," and appears to be satisfied that Cook was of Scotch extraction.

by Occurrences 1%

[Enter AUNTIE and VICAR by door to right.]

under Occurrences 1%

The speaker's thoughts are now directed to his old parish servant, and to the old man's favourite stories of previous vicars under whom he has served.

before Occurrences 1%

For this he was presented by the vicar before the consistory court at Stratford Bow Chapel.

over Occurrences 1%

There are several interesting tombs and a memorial of a former vicar over the arch of the tower.

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