Which preposition to use with youngest

than Occurrences 382%

We were both boys, younger than fifteen, then, and each possessing, probably, quite as much discretion as valor.

of Occurrences 367%

" "Will you listen to me for one moment?" says Dr. Dridrano, the youngest of the three gentlemen.

in Occurrences 170%

In the months of May and June, the wild sheep bring forth their young in solitary and almost inaccessible crags, far above the nesting-rocks of the eagle.

for Occurrences 95%

With a sweeping glance of his eye he took my measure from head to foot, and then said: "My boy, you are too young for a pony express-rider.

as Occurrences 75%

Because I love, is that a Wonder, Madam? Have you not Charms sufficient at first sight To wound a Heart tender and young as mine? Are you not heavenly fair?

with Occurrences 52%

And at length the welcome spring began to peep forth, calling to the old folks, "Come out, and grow young with the young year!"

at Occurrences 43%

Love and marriage are, as might be expected, well represented in the dream-flora; a circumstance, indeed, which has not failed to impress the young at all times.

to Occurrences 31%

By the time he was twenty-five, Boccaccio had fallen in love with the Lady Maria, a natural daughter of King Robert of Naples, who had caused her to be adopted as a member of the family of the Count d'Aquino, and to be married when very young to a Neapolitan nobleman.

by Occurrences 26%

Two flannel petticoats for the young by Thursday morning.

from Occurrences 13%

He could tell good liquor from bad, the young from the old.

on Occurrences 12%

Ye ne'er, like hapless human wanderers, throw Your young on winter's winding sheet of snow.

among Occurrences 8%

Though this boy is the youngest among you," I continued, "you will now learn from his lips words of good counsel, which I hope you will profit by.

like Occurrences 7%

One is well placed here, one sees all the valley; I am young like it, I feel youth within me demanding to accomplish its task" My uncle calmed me.

during Occurrences 6%

Commencing in April, she rears three broods of young during the season, and her mate prolongs his notes until the last brood has flown from the nest.

under Occurrences 6%

We are told, that the manner of Tamerlane giving his blessing to his two sons, by bowing down the head of the elder, and chucking the youngest under the chin, was a presage of the elevation of the latter in prejudice to the former, was grounded on the 48th chapter of Genesis, where Jacob is represented laying his right hand on the head of the younger, forseeing by inspiration that he would be the greater of the two.

against Occurrences 6%

The scientific virus, like vaccine lymph, if passed through too long a succession of organisms, will lose all its effect in protecting the young against the intellectual epidemics to which they are exposed.

about Occurrences 6%

This would lead to the belief that this species of bear brings forth its young about the beginning of the new year.

without Occurrences 6%

A youth of frolics, an old age of cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without lovers, old without a friend; A fop their passion, but their prize a sot; Alive, ridiculous, and dead, forgot!

into Occurrences 5%

Madame Grevy was thrown suddenly not very young into such an absolutely new milieu, that she was quite bewildered and couldn't be expected to recognise half the women of the diplomatic corps, but the German ambassadress impressed her

through Occurrences 3%

The only probable conjecture respecting its extraordinary situation was, that it had fallen when young through the bars or grating at the entrance of the drain, (which was of sufficient width to receive it if very young,) but was found at a great distance from it, on digging for the foundation of the college, (A.D. 1437.)

out Occurrences 3%

Christianity represents to the poor, not Christ tender to the sinful, visiting the leprous, the brother of publicans, at Whose feet sat the harlots and were comforted, but the gentleman taking sides with God against the poor and oppressed, an elder brother in the courts of heaven kicking the younger out of doors.

after Occurrences 2%

" So far from this, it seems, on the contrary, to keep the parents young after their time.

beneath Occurrences 2%

He folded his child still nearer to his heart, while the athletic Sigismund shielded his drooping sister, as the fowl shelters its young beneath the wing.

OF Occurrences 1%

"I PRESUME, MY KIND YOUNG FRIEND, THAT YOU ARE THE YOUNGEST OF THE THREE BROTHERS WHO ARE GOING OUT TO SEEK THEIR FORTUNES?" Clever Youth.

along Occurrences 1%

Like the innovative Ivan Fera, who died young along with the promise of immense talent and many bylines in journals like The Illustrated Weekly.

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