Which preposition to use with youth

of Occurrences 775%

During my third year at that place, in one of my excursions to Philadelphia, and for which I was always inventing pretexts, I became acquainted with one of those faces and forms which, in a youth of twenty, to see, admire, and love, is one and the same thing.

in Occurrences 341%

Not strange, perhaps, for Mr. MCLAUGHLIN, whose very youth in New York, where he was an active politician, found him a frequent nightly familiar of the Tombs; but strange for the organist, who, although often grave in his manner, sepulchral in his tones, and occasionally addicted to coughin', must be curiously eccentric to wish to pass into concert that evening with the dead heads.

with Occurrences 154%

Behind the brazier sat three persons, Fateh Muhammad, a Musalman youth with curiously large and dreamy eyes, and two old Musalman beldames, either of whom might have sat as a model for the witch of Endor.

to Occurrences 147%

How quietly others stole away in their youth to the home of the dead, and how the rest have drifted away on the currents of life and are lost to me in the mists and shadows of time.

from Occurrences 65%

" One or two of the sober ones looked a little embarrassed, but the leader, who I guessed was the youth from Gracedieu, was brave enough.

at Occurrences 65%

Gloria came to the door, the youth at her heels, looking over her shoulder.

for Occurrences 63%

Therefore either death or the youth for whom I languish can alone end my tortures.

on Occurrences 55%

It did not need Wilhelm Meister to set the feet of youth on that trail; it did not need the Crusades.

as Occurrences 44%

Is't not a plague, an horrible abuse, A king, a King of England, should be father To four such proper youths as Hal and Dick, My brother Geoffrey, and my proper self, And yet not give his sons such maintenance, As he consumes among his minions? RICH.

by Occurrences 32%

I will not have my name bandied about in this land as a wanton who sets silly youth by the ears to gratify her pride.

into Occurrences 31%

He, "The Strangler of Finland," had crushed the gallant nation into submission, ruining their commerce, sapping the country by impressing its youth into the Russian army, forbidding the use of the Finnish language, and taxing the people until the factories had been compelled to close down while the peasantry starved.

under Occurrences 25%

But, at least, the youth under my care are destined to fill the most conspicuous stations in future life.

without Occurrences 17%

You may look in your mirror and note these accidents with satisfaction; you may feel young and indulge in the pastimes of youth without effort.

like Occurrences 11%

If I had allowed you to go your way to the proverbial dogs, after whose society gilded youths like yourself appear to be always hankering, I should not be sitting here with cold water running down my back and surrounded by Nature in her gloomiest and dampest aspects.

than Occurrences 10%

As the Lord DE LA NOUE in the sixth Discourse of his Politic and Military Discourses, censureth the books of AMADIS de Gaul; which, he saith, are no less hurtful to youth than the works of MACHIAVELLI to age: so these books are accordingly to be censured of, whose names follow.

out Occurrences 10%

The record of our church's schools for your race prove that it simply is not possible to keep the Negro youth out of school.

about Occurrences 9%

the sparkle had gone out of their meetings, which began to have an air of make-believe youth about them.

behind Occurrences 9%

The princess next her painted charms displays, Where every look the pencil's art betrays; The callow squire at distance feeds his eyes, And silently for paint and washes dies: 80 But if the youth behind the scenes retreat, He sees the blended colours melt with heat, And all the trickling beauty run in sweat.

before Occurrences 7%

"O damsel," she said, "rivet thy gaze on the youth before thee: we have not given thee for lover a Lissa, a Geta, or a Birria, or anyone resembling them, but a person in every way worthy of being loved by every goddess in the heavens.

against Occurrences 7%

"This doctrine of antipathies, contracted by the impatience of youth against the noblest authors of antiquity, from the circumstance of having been made the vehicle of early instruction, is a most dangerous doctrine indeed; since it strikes at the root, not only of all pure taste, but of all praiseworthy industry.

among Occurrences 7%

Long years ago I wandered as a youth among its bowers, And never from my heart has faded quite Its memory, that, like a summer sunset, Encircles with a ring of purple light All the horizon of my youth.

After Occurrences 7%

John Kendrick Bangs To the Men Who Lose........................ Anonymous To Those Who Fail.......................... Joaquin Miller To Youth After Pain........................

beside Occurrences 6%

She indicated with a wave of her hand the lithe-limbed youth beside her.

through Occurrences 5%

A ram, whose fleece was of pure gold, carried the youth through the air in a most obliging manner to the court of his friend.

within Occurrences 5%

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.

Which preposition to use with  youth