Which preposition to use with workings

of Occurrences 884%

After all is said, it is not quite the same task to examine and classify either protoplasm or the most highly organized forms of nature, that it is to analyze and understand the mysterious workings of the heart, the intricacies of conscience and conduct, the possibilities of spiritual development or of moral downfall, and the many questionings, agonies, and ecstasies of the soul of man.

out Occurrences 49%

One or two examples of the working out of this might make the application clearer.

in Occurrences 17%

This is the doctrine of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm; and the transition from the generic working of the Creative Spirit in the Cosmos to its specific working in the Individual is what is meant by the doctrine of the Octave.

with Occurrences 8%

Say, I seen you in the halldid you know who you was talking to?" The red flooded Johnnie's face as she knelt before her loom interrogating its workings with a dexterous hand; even the white nape of her neck showed pink to Mandy's examining eye; but she managed to reply in a fairly even tone: "Yes, that was Mr. Stoddard.

at Occurrences 6%

What progress we may make in it depends on our practical application of the principle; but simply as principle there is nothing in the principle itself to prevent its complete working at any moment.

to Occurrences 5%

Stoddard noticed her intent examination of the machine, and began explaining its workings to her.

than Occurrences 5%

It is probably a mere verbal unwritten understanding, but, neverthelesss is more potent in its working than the written treaties.

under Occurrences 3%

But it was David Bushnell that invented and built the first practical working submarine boat, and in point of efficiency and practical working under service conditions in actual readiness for hostile action the American boats excel to-day.

on Occurrences 3%

We may perhaps make this principle a little more clear, if it be necessary, by illustrating its working on a small scale and within narrow limits.

of Occurrences 2%

This gives the young Lady wonderful Workings of Imagination, what is to pass between her and this Husband that she is every Moment told of, and for whom she seems to be educated.

as Occurrences 2%

The shapes and forms that follow the working as its results or products, whether the shapes cognizable by sense or the forms distinguished by the intellect, are after all but the particularizations of this working; its proper names, as it were, as John, James, Peter, in respect of human nature.

by Occurrences 2%

A railway manager who wishes to discover the highest rate of charges which his traffic will bear is not interested if he is told that the rate when fixed will have been due to the law that all men seek to obtain wealth with as little effort as possible, modified in its working by men's unwillingness to break an established business habit.

from Occurrences 1%

" "There is a working from us beyond our own.

for Occurrences 1%

The story that his wife, a worthless woman, sat for his Madonnas, and the legends of his working for money to meet pressing needs, seem justified by numbers of his paintings, faulty in their faultlessness and want of spirit.

evermore Occurrences 1%

But leaving this, It was no madness, for the bodily eye Amid my strongest workings evermore Was searching out the lines of difference

up Occurrences 1%

The Epitasis or Working up of the Plot, where the Play grows warmer; the Design or Action of it is drawing on, and you see something promising, that it will come to pass. "Thirdly.

during Occurrences 1%

The results of the working during these years were as follows:

without Occurrences 1%

And these, I did look into; and afterward did take out a small compass that I had been give by the Master Monstruwacan, so that I might find of its workings without the Great Redoubt; and, he had said unto me, that it might be that I should pass far off into the Night Land, and lose the Mighty Pyramid amid so great a Country and so plentiful a Darkness.

around Occurrences 1%

Such a movement could not fail to attract the attention of the Duchess of Gordon who, living so entirely in the presence of the Spirit, was able to realise the workings around her.

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