Which preposition to use with ant

in Occurrences 24%

Lizards glide about on the rocks enjoying a constitution that no drought can dry, and ants in amazing numbers, whose tiny sparks of life seem to burn the brighter with the increasing heat, ramble industriously in long trains in search of food.

on Occurrences 11%

Cheating, lying and stealing are hard words, and I don't mean to apply them to all who swarm about below there like ants on an ant-hillthey have other names for these things, but I'm old-fashioned and use plain words.

of Occurrences 9%

Oh, that an ant of the heaviest might weigh down his tongue!

at Occurrences 7%

They were still so far away that even a camel would have looked no larger than an ant at that distance, but they were assuredly human beings, two who were strangers to the desertfor the palm knew the people of the deserta man and a woman, who had neither guide, nor beasts of burden, nor tent, nor water-bag.

to Occurrences 6%

Says the ant to the cricket: "I'm your servant and friend, But we ants never borrow, we ants never lend.

with Occurrences 5%

" A famous spring lyric beginning: "Lenten ys come with love to toune, With blosmen ant with briddes roune.

as Occurrences 4%

But I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being; I am ready, with Socrates, to follow the Logos whithersoever it leads; and I hope that Mr. Mivart will reconsider the two latter paragraphs of p. 196, and let his "thoughts play freely" round this curious subject.

into Occurrences 2%

He next tried insect food, and put several ants into the glass to them, but they then betrayed as much cowardice as they had before done of barbarity; for the instant the Mantes saw the ants, they attempted to escape in every direction.

from Occurrences 2%

There was a small canal of water outside to prevent ants from entering the room.

about Occurrences 2%

The noise of many voices in talk and laughter came from within the booths, and in and out ran the attendants like ants about an ant-hill.

like Occurrences 1%

Aye ask her plenty tams, but she ant like me.

near Occurrences 1%

If there be a nest of ants near the camp, place the skull in their immediate vicinity.

for Occurrences 1%

And the trees were bare and brown; And the Grasshopper, being a careless blade, Who all the summer had danced and played, Now came to the rich old Ant for aid,

by Occurrences 1%

Miller's attention was first attracted to this army of ants by noticing a big centipede, nine or ten inches long, trying to flee before them.

over Occurrences 1%

You crawl over the thing like a myopic ant over a building, tumbling into every microscopic crack or fissure, finding nothing but inconsistencies, and never suspecting that a centre exists.

through Occurrences 1%

"It was like looking at a lot of ants through a magnifying glass.

among Occurrences 1%

Full day upon the plaindistances, contours, the great blooms of space; a swarm of bees, a constellation of suns; the traffic of ants among the dropped twigs of the sand, the communion of angels beyond the veils of heaven; the budding of a primrose, the resurrection of a Godand all for men, when the daybreak and the shadows flee away.

up Occurrences 1%

Men were swarming like ants up the long slope reaching to the forest.

after Occurrences 1%

Just as the female ant after coition loses her wings, which then become superfluous, nay, dangerous for breeding purposes, so for the most part does a woman lose her beauty after giving birth to one or two children; and probably for the same reasons.

Which preposition to use with  ant