Which preposition to use with villainies

of Occurrences 33%

Here a sheeted form lay prone on the roadside; there a flickering lamp disclosed through the half-open door a mother crooning to her child, while her master smoked the hubble-bubble with the clay bowl and ruminated over the events of the day,the villainy of the landlord who contemplated the raising of the rent and the still greater rascality of the landlord's 'bhaya' who insisted upon his own 'dasturi' as well.

in Occurrences 6%

What say you to a spring of rankest villainy in February, and a harvest of ripest divinity in May?

to Occurrences 3%

They complained that already were too many pagans in the land, working great shame and villainy to the people.

as Occurrences 2%

"Can it be possible!" said a tall and aged director, rising from his chair and bending upon the culprit a look of great impressiveness"can it be possible that it is our upright and stainless clerk who confesses to such a stupendous villainy as this?

by Occurrences 2%

One day she awoke to find that her husband had crowned his villainy by decamping with her valuables and all her savings.

with Occurrences 2%

Partner and accomplice, covering your villainies with an heroic mantle, look to thyself!

on Occurrences 1%

The discovery of these wholesale robberies, and of other villainies on a smaller scale in other cities, has led to much discussion of the problems of municipal government, and to many attempts at practical reform.

through Occurrences 1%

In the drama of the French Court many a fine-feathered villain "struts his brief hour" on the stage, dazzling eyes by his splendour, and shocking a world none too easily shocked in those days of easy morals by his profligacy; but it would be difficult among all these gilded rakes to find a match for the Duc de Richelieu, who carried his villainies through little less than a century of life.

under Occurrences 1%

Having embarked on a career of villainy under her direct instigation, he might go on of his own accord, indefinitely.

underneath Occurrences 1%

"There's some damned villainy underneath all this, Joyce," I said.

like Occurrences 1%

An accidental concealment, acquiesced in temporarily, for business reasonswhat had that in common with villainy like Morrison's?

at Occurrences 1%

In order to come into the property, Baron Longueville used every endeavor to kill Eugenia and Florian, but all his attemps were abortive, and his villainy at length was brought to light.

before Occurrences 1%

His conscience shrank from the half-perceived villainies before him; but his will failed him.

between Occurrences 1%

In the pirate sloop several letters and papers were found, which Black Beard would certainly have destroyed previous to the engagement, had he not determined to blow her up upon his being taken, which disclosed the whole villainy between the honorable governor of Bermuda and his honest secretary on the one hand, and the notorious pirate on the other, who had now suffered the just punishment of his crimes.

into Occurrences 1%

In the mandate which he scattered broadcast on this occasion he called himself "a vicegerent of the archangel Michael who had come to visit upon all who, in this controversy, should take the part of the Squire, punishment by fire and sword for the villainy into which the whole world was plunged."

among Occurrences 1%

There is not much villainy among them.

Which preposition to use with  villainies