Which preposition to use with wenches

in Occurrences 20%

And, Sir, you have all Encouragement; her Brother, you heard, refus'd to pay her Portion, and you know the Fate of a handsom young Wench in this Town, that relies on weak VirtueThen because she is in The House with her Uncle, this same Steward has contriv'd matters so, to bring you in at the Back-door, her Lodgings being in the Garden.

of Occurrences 12%

"I hear they've had a rare job to get him to drop his beer, and if it had not been for that great red-headed wench of his they'd never ha' done it.

with Occurrences 7%

It was a theatre where free farcical pieces were produced, and on its walls were posted huge portraits of its "star," a carroty wench with a long flat figure, destitute of all womanliness, and seemingly symbolical of perversity.

like Occurrences 6%

now you go crying vp and downe after your wench like a boy that had lost his horne booke.

at Occurrences 6%

Sweet Rogues, your companie to me is like musick to a wench at midnight when she lies alone and could wish,yea, marry could she.

to Occurrences 5%

Now cometh this woeful wench to me vowing she heard their voices i' the night, and, to quiet these voices besought of me a pardon.

from Occurrences 4%

Stand still becalm'd, and let an aged Dotard, a hair-brain'd Puppy, and a Bookish Boy, that never knew a Blade above a Pen-knife, and how to cut his meat in Characters, cross my design, and take thine own Wench from thee, in mine own house too?

for Occurrences 4%

Now 'twere a good jest, if I could cosen the old churl of his daughter, and get the wench for myself.

without Occurrences 3%

My Stomach was up before me, Friend; and I'm damnably hungry; 'tis strange how a man's Appetite increases with his Greatness; I'll swinge it away now I'm a Lord,then I will wench without Mercy; I'm resolv'd to spare neither Man, Woman, nor Child, not I; hey, Rogues, Rascals, Boys, my Breakfast, quickly, Dogslet me see, what shall I have now that's rare? Page.

of Occurrences 2%

HONEYCOMB, who disguises his present Decay by visiting the Wenches of the Town only by Way of Humour, told us, that the last rainy Night he with Sir ROGER DE COVERLY was driven into the Temple Cloister, whither had escaped also a Lady most exactly dressed from Head to Foot.

on Occurrences 2%

Our postilion was sitting near a table, with a huge flagon beside him, and a wench on his knee.

in Occurrences 2%

It is at this time that we see the young Wenches in a Country Parish dancing round a May-Pole, which one of our learned Antiquaries supposes to be a Relique of a certain Pagan Worship that I do not think fit to mention.

than Occurrences 1%

"I would rather have a Venusinian wench than thee, Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi," &c. 5793.

into Occurrences 1%

I believe she helped them, and they got on board ship, and brought a token to my father; but the old mother was feeble and imbecile, and could not move, and the monks and the dragoons frightened and harassed this poor wench into what they called conforming.

By Occurrences 1%

No, I am not in humour for a Wench By Heaven, I hate the Sex.

before Occurrences 1%

" He who sermonized thus unctuously and with eyes fixed with stern disapproval on the buxom wench before him, was a man who had passed the meridian of life not altogetherit may be surmisedwithout having indulged in some recreations which had not always the sanctification of his own immortal soul for their primary object.

as Occurrences 1%

So the knight sat down to supper with strange company, and discoursed of chivalry to the bewilderment of all present, treating the inn as a castle, the host as a noble gentleman, and the wenches as great ladies.

out Occurrences 1%

Were I to take a cinder-wench out of the Rue Poissonniere, I could at my will raise her up until the highest in France would be proud to bow down before her.

Which preposition to use with  wenches