Which preposition to use with weeps

for Occurrences 372%

Agatho and a few pettifoggers were weeping for grief, and for once in a way they meant it.

over Occurrences 228%

A year ago you were weeping over Paul's departure; and now, behold, you are going to join him, and lay in his arms the son he has never seen.

with Occurrences 188%

Why did you not speak, Sir, all this while?my Lady weeps with your Unkindness.

in Occurrences 167%

in my arms!" Father and son, locked together in closest embrace, mingled their sobs, while Auguste and his wife, looking on, wept in sympathy.

at Occurrences 108%

And he "wept at my tranquillity.

on Occurrences 72%

Then I would assuredly box your jaws, because I don't yearn to be a poor stricken dear and weep on anybody's bosom.

like Occurrences 70%

" I had been tried too hard, and was all but proving my bravery by weeping like a bairn. CHAPTER XIV.

to Occurrences 23%

And, whilst the lifted murmur met his ear, And o'er the distant billows the still eve Sailed slow, has thought of all his heart must leave To-morrow; of the friends he loved most dear; Of social scenes, from which he wept to part!

by Occurrences 13%

The dreadful scene presented him the mother lifeless, pierced to the heart, on a chair, her daughter yet wildly standing over her with the fatal knife, and the old man, her father, weeping by her side, himself bleeding at the forehead from the effects of a severe blow he received from one of the forks she had been madly hurling about the room.

without Occurrences 11%

And Henrich buried his face in his hands and wept without restraint.

into Occurrences 10%

"The moment that we emerged from the enchanted castle we knew ourselves and each other for what we were, and fell weeping into each other's arms.

beside Occurrences 10%

" She sat and wept beside his feet.

as Occurrences 9%

So she ended and stood weeping as one that is hopeless and weary.

from Occurrences 9%

Father Holt blessed him too, and then they took leave of my Lady Viscountess, who came weeping from her apartment.

before Occurrences 9%

"So, taking everything into consideration, I gave up my plan to marry this girl of Timnath; and I was afterward very glad I did so, for she proved a tricky creature, and entered into a conspiracy to deceive her husband, actually weeping before him seven days in order to worm out of him the secret of his strength.

through Occurrences 7%

Therespect for the dead among the early Greeks was very great, and Miss Lambert quotes the complaint of Petala to Simmalion, in the Epistles of Alciphron, to show how special was the dedication of flowers to the dead:"I have a lover who is a mourner, not a lover; he sends me garlands and roses as if to deck a premature grave, and he says he weeps through the live-long night.

around Occurrences 6%

With no disturbing emotions, no cross conflicting comparisons, drink in the tranquillity of the place, till thou thyself become as fixed and motionless as the marble effigies that kneel and weep around thee.

about Occurrences 4%

"Upon my honor, and when a girl begins to weep about a man I don't need to say he is close to her heart.

above Occurrences 4%

He kissed her mouth, once and again, and wept above her, very tenderly.

after Occurrences 4%

Bertrand was weeping after his excitable fashion.

beneath Occurrences 4%

now I sigh at hoary Chartreuse' doom Weeping beneath his chill of mountain gloom.

behind Occurrences 3%

" I was left weeping behind the chair where lady Harriot had sate, and, as I thought, quite alone.

among Occurrences 3%

It was as true of this poor young lady in her trunkless plight, as of any dishevelled Marius in crinoline, who sits down and weeps among the brand-new ruins of a Carthage of satin, lawns, and laces, that she had Nothing to Wear.

during Occurrences 3%

One of our old travellers on the continent, tells the following anecdote of a capuchin preacher: The friar observed, that whenever he held forth to his congregation, a certain man never failed to burst into tears, and continue weeping during the sermon.

outside Occurrences 2%

This legend reminds us of one told by the poet Shiraz, respecting the origin of the forget-me-not:"It was in the golden morning of the early world, when an angel sat weeping outside the closed gates of Eden.

Which preposition to use with  weeps