Which preposition to use with worried
"Worrying about the schooner.
Years ago, when we were living in Rome, four sisters, before any of us were married, a charming Frenchwoman, Duchesse de B., who came often to the house, was very worried about this family of girls, all very happy at home and contented with their lives.
A great friend of mine, an American, who had lived all her life abroad, and whose husband was a member of the diplomatic corps in Vienna, was always worrying over the misdemeanours of the Americans who never paid any attention to rules or court etiquette.
Also, lest I become discontented with my poverty, I note the strain and worry of the faces that I meet.
All the way down they worried for fear they would be late, but when they reached Roland at last they found that their rural driver knew the habits of trains in that part of the country better than they did, for they had a full thirty-five minutes to wait.
There she lay, a little, gaunt, scarred creature, starved and worried to death by him.
It's quite beyond me, and I'm nearly worried to death over it.
McLeod says the worry in getting over the pass is terrible, and he has no desire to repeat the experience.
I do not want Madame worried with these questions, so I told him Madame was away in the motor in the country; but he says he will come again and again till he sees her.
The Grand Duke talked a great deal, principally politics, to W. He expressed himself very doubtfully about the stability of the Republic, and was evidently worried over the possibility of a general amnesty, "a very dangerous measure which no government should sanction."
"Don't worry on that score," put in Andy briskly.
She was also worried by his odd tone of flippancy.
If your beloved father had only left me alone I should have worried through all right.
The three fellows ahead kept turning around every dozen seconds, as if worried at the rapid approach of the others.
One of my hips was so badly injured that it will never be quite right again, and my Aunt Martha was dreadfully worried for fear I would become a tax upon her.
He was very anxious about the state of affairs in Francesaid Bismarck was very worried at the great step the Radicals had made in the new Parliamentwas afraid the Moderate men would have no show.
"Yes, the people of the States manage to worry along some way without any nobility.
Kiss me, my pet; bid papa good night very prettily, so that he may not feel worried in leaving you.
Carpets are at the same time taken up and beaten, except where the mistress of the house has been worried into an experiment by the often-reiterated question, "Why beat your carpets?"
As he spoke Gifford could not help a slight feeling of wonder that this girl, from whom he would have expected an attitude rather of indifference, should allow herself to be so greatly worried by the affair.
But Mary Arkroyd was disquieted, worried as to how she stood with Irechester, vaguely but insistently worried over the whole Tower Cottage business.
But abroad in the town there was not enough of this complaisance nor of this passion for mere numerals to prevent worry from creasing the brow of Solon Denney.
That story is probably an allegory, signifying that Euripides was after all worried out of life by the curs of criticism in his old age.
As if I needed more worries than the one I have had ever since I arrived here!
"He is about as worried as anybody, for he has already spent several thousand dollars, and if we lose he won't know how to pay it back," "We'll lend him the cash," said Tom promptly, and for this Nellie gave him a grateful look.