We reckoned the improvements of the art of war _among_ the triumphs of science.--EMERSON.
Examples of the looser use of _between_:--
Natural objects affect us by the laws of that connection which Providence has established _between_ certain motions of bodies.--BURKE.
Hence the differences _between_ men in natural endowment are insignificant in comparison with their common wealth.--EMERSON.
They maintain a good correspondence _between_ those wealthy societies of men that are divided from one another by seas and oceans.--ADDISON.
Looking up at its deep-pointed porches and the dark places _between_ their pillars where there were statues once.--RUSKIN
What have I, a soldier of the Cross, to do with recollections of war _betwixt_ Christian nations?--SCOTT.
[Sidenote: _Two groups or one and a group._]
Also _between_ may express relation or connection in speaking of two groups of objects, or one object and a group; as,--
A council of war is going on beside the watch fire, _between_ the three adventurers and the faithful Yeo.--KINGSLEY.
The great distinction _between_ teachers sacred or literary,--_between_ poets like Herbert and poets like Pope,--_between_ philosophers like Spinoza, Kant, and Coleridge, and philosophers like Locke, Paley, Mackintosh, and Stewart, etc. --EMERSON.
460. Certain words are followed by particular prepositions.
Some of these words show by their composition what preposition should follow. Such are _absolve_, _involve_, _different_.
Some of them have, by custom, come to take prepositions not in keeping with the original meaning of the words. Such are _derogatory_, _averse_.
Many words take one preposition to express one meaning, and another to convey a different meaning; as, _correspond_, _confer_.
And yet others may take several prepositions indifferently to express the same meaning.
[Sidenote: _List I_.: _Words with particular prepositions_.]
Absolve _from_. Conversant _with_. Abhorrent _to_. Dependent _on_ (_upon_). Accord _with_. Different _from_. Acquit _of_. Dissent _from_. Affinity _between_. Derogatory _to_. Averse _to_. Deprive _of_. Bestow _on_ (_upon_). Independent _of_. Conform _to_. Involve _in_. Comply _with_.
"Different _to_" is frequently heard in spoken English in England, and sometimes creeps into standard books, but it is not good usage.