Which preposition to use with violent

in Occurrences 66%

Some of the young deputies, just fresh from the war and smarting under a sense of humiliation, were very violent in their abuse of any Royalist and particularly Bonapartist restoration.

than Occurrences 36%

Indeed no storm can be more violent than those of the waterfalls in the midst of which he delights to dwell.

of Occurrences 24%

"I do not suggest that all of them didonly that the more violent of them did so.

as Occurrences 15%

" "I had the additional mortification of approving of the choice she made; for, certainly, as respected her own happiness, your mother did more wisely in confiding it to the regulated, mild, and manly virtues of your father, than in placing her hopes on one as eccentric and violent as myself.

against Occurrences 11%

For your Lordship may easily observe that none are very violent against it; but those who either have not attempted it, or who have succeeded ill in their attempt.

for Occurrences 9%

A much smaller breadth might have been thought to suffice, and was at first intended; but it was found that the current in a narrow channel, the outer sea being many inches higher than the water of the gulf, would have been too rapid and violent for safety.

on Occurrences 7%

One would have thought that this consideration might make the election a quiet one, but it was not so; the struggle was for party supremacy, and it was violent on both sides.

with Occurrences 6%

The others then began to be very violent with me.

at Occurrences 5%

"His mind has been erratic and unbalanced since I can remember," answered Ethel, calmly, "but he first became violent at the time Captain Wegg died, some three years ago.

from Occurrences 4%

When the wind is violent from the west, they come in over the city from the bay outside, strong-winged and undaunted, breasting the gale, now high, now low, but always working to windward, until they reach the shelter of the inland waters.

to Occurrences 4%

[Sidenote: hate, when] As make your bowts more violent to the end, [Sidenote: to that end,]

between Occurrences 2%

On the morning of October 24th soon after nine o'clock the enemy launched a big attack against the Third Army Front, especially violent between Faiti and the Vippacco, and renewed it in the afternoon.

among Occurrences 2%

Still the Girondists kept control, and even elected Isnard, the most violent among them, President of the Convention.

by Occurrences 1%

He died of a fever, made, I am afraid, more violent by uneasiness of mind.

beyond Occurrences 1%

And now the struggle had lasted more than five hours, and dawn began to be visible, when the Tartar king, furious to find so much trouble given him, dealt his enemy a blow sharp and violent beyond conception.

over Occurrences 1%

She wondered where he would attempt a crossing; the water looked so black in the pools, so violent over the rapids.

under Occurrences 1%

He didn't look forward to the job which he thought lay before him; but, of course, it wasn't the first time he had been called in to help calm a man who had become violent under the influence of drink.

during Occurrences 1%

Just because the birth-throes of modern Germany, which extend over the first seventy years of the nineteenth century, were especially violent during the period under consideration, the program of the school had from the outset a strong political bias.

about Occurrences 1%

Mrs. Kinloch has for a long time wanted her to marry that hateful Hugh Branning, and became so violent about it that Mildred was afraid of her.

near Occurrences 1%

The musketry seemed very violent near Vaugirard on the Pont Royal and around the Palais de l'Industrie.

Which preposition to use with  violent