Which preposition to use with volunteer

with Occurrences 487%

Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will remain freely available for generations to come.

for Occurrences 90%

I had heard that officers were being recruited for Tonquin, and I determined to volunteer for this service.

in Occurrences 67%

It was true, probably the precise truth, but it seemed to have been volunteered in a rather remarkable way and worded with careful purpose.

from Occurrences 43%

When some volunteers from the audience had picked up the Giant and put him on a stretcher and carried him to the hospital, where the doctors did their best to mend him, the Female Samson had a chance to explain, and the finding of a long scarf-pin on the platform, just under the bar, was evidence that she had told the truth, and corroborated the red stain on her stocking.

at Occurrences 25%

"Once in Bordeaux," he volunteered at last, "there was a man whom I fear I provoked quite needlesslyall because I was walking in the garden with a headache, and my chocolate was lateLay out the other shirt, Brutus, I must be well dressed today.

of Occurrences 23%

The Piazza had been renamed by the Italians "Piazza Ubbidisco," and under cover of darkness they set up one night on the mountain side just above the town a memorial stone to Garibaldi and his volunteers of 1866, a provocative target for Austrian gunners.

under Occurrences 14%

After bravely defending the fort for more than a week, the little garrison was relieved by the arrival of about 200 mounted volunteers under command of Col. McPhail, being the advance of Gen. Sibley's command.

to Occurrences 13%

"It's all right," Darrow volunteered to Captain Selover, as he came over the side.

as Occurrences 9%

MY DEAREST NINA,Your New Year's Day letter shows that you write as well as a volunteer as on compulsion....

on Occurrences 8%

It is true they both served in the war of 1870-71; but at the outset this parallel fell flat, too, because one had been a junior officer on the German side and the other a volunteer on the French side.

than Occurrences 4%

The fact is that many more men were raised at these places by volunteering than by impressment.

without Occurrences 3%

" While they were talking there came a knock at the door, and when it was opened, there stood Bertie from the livery stable, with a long green-wrapped box in his hand, which he gave to Mrs. Watson, volunteering without delay, all the information he had regarding it.

against Occurrences 3%

[Footnote 2: Prince Eugene of Savoy, grandson of a duke of Savoy, and son of Eugene Maurice, general of the Swiss, and Olympia Mancini, a niece of Mazarin, was born at Paris in 1663, and intended for the church, but had so strong a bent towards a military life, that when refused a regiment in the French army he served the Emperor as volunteer against the Turks.

by Occurrences 3%

Under the second call for volunteers by the President, the State of Illinois raised a regiment of colored soldiers, and Governor Tanner officered that regiment with colored officers from colonel down; and that, as you might say, before they had earned their "rank."

near Occurrences 1%

As the firing ceased, I knew the Indians had fled; this seemed also the opinion of the volunteers near me, who simultaneously left their hiding-place, and pushed forward to the scene.

into Occurrences 1%

Having made up his mind how to proceed, Cook went to a rendezvous at Wapping and volunteered into H.M.S. Eagle, a fourth-rate, 60-gun ship, with a complement of 400 men and 56 marines, at that time moored in Portsmouth Harbour.

forfor Occurrences 1%

"Edwin, it's comehe's leaving meit" "Speaking of service, II guess I might have mentioned it before, mother, butbutwhen war was declared the other day, aa bunch of us fellows volunteered forfor the university unit to France, andwell, I'm accepted, motherto go.

over Occurrences 1%

And quite as certainly, the Laureate stipend never extracted from poet panegyric more fulsome, ill-placed, and degrading, than that which Laureate Dryden volunteered over the pall of Charles II.

round Occurrences 1%

He raised some fifty volunteers round Cahokia and Kaskaskia, perhaps as many more on the Wabash, and marched to the Maumee River.

during Occurrences 1%

Volunteers during Civil War.

between Occurrences 1%

The volunteers between 1860 and 1878, or 1880, when pay began to be introduced for attendance in camps, gave their time and their attention with no external inducement whatever.

before Occurrences 1%

If the old regiments should not be filled up by volunteers before the 1st day of September, a special draft will be ordered for the deficiency.

among Occurrences 1%

On the arrival of the news at Jacksonville, Colonel John E. Ross raised a company of volunteers among the miners and hastened to the scene of butchery.

after Occurrences 1%

I made some evasive answer to Curtis, for I did not care to volunteer after my long day's ride.

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