Which preposition to use with alone

in Occurrences 1288%

I was a great time dazed, and then I was alone in the blackness of the night.

with Occurrences 1017%

" He would have taken in poor simple Hercules, but 6 that Our Lady of Malaria was there, who left her temple and came alone with him: all the other gods he had left at Rome.

for Occurrences 210%

I didn't quite know what orders to give, hadn't mastered yet the number that would be required; but I sent for him, said I should be alone for dinner, perhaps one or two lamps in the dining-room and small salon would be enough.

on Occurrences 160%

She seemed alone on the bosom of the ocean; and for the life of me I could not but feel that I was embarked on some desperate adventure.

to Occurrences 145%

He is a great, strong, square-shouldered, big-breasted, good-natured specimen of the genus homo, a giant in physical strength, and were I a wolf, I would prefer letting him alone to any man in these parts.

at Occurrences 118%

Thus, on the 24th of September, Allen found himself alone at Long Point with a hundred and twenty men in face of three times as many under the redoubtable Major Carden, a skilled veteran who had won Wolfe's admiration years before.

by Occurrences 105%

Fifteen years ago I was over on Tupper's Lake, shantyin' on the high bank above the rocks, just at the outlet, fishin' and huntin', and layin' around loose, in a promiscuous way, all alone by myself, havin' nobody along but the old black dog that you," appealing to Hank Wood, who nodded assent, remember.

among Occurrences 62%

I looked for Shalah and Onotawah, but they had disappeared, and I was left alone among those lines of dark, unknown faces.

as Occurrences 45%

Zimmerman did not shine alone as the best batter, as he was also the leading maker of home runs and the best two-base hitter of the season.

of Occurrences 39%

Alone of living men, perhaps, Crochard was free to wander there unchallenged.

after Occurrences 35%

Say that Heaven only is great, then was Yau alone after its pattern!

into Occurrences 32%

After lunch I took the dog-cart and drove alone into Dumfries.

than Occurrences 27%

Are you coming, Vi?" "I s-suppose so," said poor Violet, more afraid of being left alone than of facing the ghost in company with the others.

through Occurrences 26%

" With this assurance Marston parted from the old clergyman, and rode on alone through the furze and fern of his wild and somber park.

from Occurrences 25%

He has seen the old Welsh bards on Snowdon,he has seen the beautifullest, the strongest, and the ugliest man, left alone from the massacre of the Britons by the Romans, and has painted them from memory (I have seen his paintings), and asserts them to be as good as the figures of Raphael and Angelo, but not better, as they had precisely the same retro-visions and prophetic visions with themself

against Occurrences 23%

If the "woman who hesitates is lost," it is equally true that the man who pretends to set up his reason alone against beauty, is certain to find that sense is less powerful than the senses.

before Occurrences 20%

Of course, six hundred in Berlin alone before the first Christmas.

without Occurrences 17%

But he might still get through alone without it.

across Occurrences 13%

She's out a good deal, rambling alone across the country with a collie belonging to a neighbouring farmer.

under Occurrences 10%

Night after night it robbed her of her mate, and left her to wander alone under the stars and the moon, keeping faithfully to her loneliness, and never once responding with her own tongue to the hunt-calls of her wild brothers and sisters in the forests and out on the plains.

beside Occurrences 8%

So Sextus stood alone beside the rough-hewn tree-trunk, to which was tied the body of a man who had been dead, perhaps, since sunset.

until Occurrences 8%

I had not one suspicion I was not alone until that handkerchief" "Naturally.

during Occurrences 6%

I was not unpleased to be alone during this period of discipline when my soul was perforce purged of its troublesome ferments.

beneath Occurrences 6%

Let us go from your father, who is unfriendly to me, and seek the barrabora of my father, the mighty chief, that happiness may come upon us,' and Kitt-a-youx said: 'What my lord says is well.' "Then Zampa placed her in his canoe, and alone beneath the stars they sailed and it was well, and Zampa's arm was strong at his paddle.

over Occurrences 6%

The most tempting bribe would not make a native walk alone over that road after sunset.

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