Which preposition to use with arbors

of Occurrences 17%

Among the other relics of antiquity, is Cheopetra with a little snake creeping over her bosom, Christ on the Cross surrounded by Mary and the Apostles, Madonna in an arbor of roses, Lions Fighting, Mourning Jews, Summer Night on the Rhine, and Galileo in Prison, deserve special notice among the hundreds of other admirable paintings.

in Occurrences 9%

No, no! on the contrary, he is excited and extols this woman whom others have possessed, as proved by these souvenirs of voluptuousness which she had left to him; and from that moment he neglects his office, his family, lets go to the winds the last vestige of his patrimony, and is found dead one day in the arbor in his garden, holding in his hand a long lock of black hair.

at Occurrences 6%

An old ash tree, ugly and ungainly, had been artificially trained to form an arbor at one end of the terrace that was a tennis lawn, and the leaves of it now went rustling together, swishing as they rose and fell.

for Occurrences 5%

More brush-covered tents and arbors for horses were strung along the hillside, one above the other sometimes, in half a dozen terraces.

on Occurrences 5%

The door in the wall had been partly opened as they approached and the young men saw, within the arbor on the terrace, the resident, Herr Reimerhis three-cornered hat on his powdered wig, his arms crossed on the top of the adjacent wall, as he awaited their coming.

with Occurrences 3%

" She found a path between high hedges, that wandered away through the grounds, and along this she strolled until she reached a rose arbor with a comfortable bench.

to Occurrences 3%

But, his call ended, the graceful gentleman, friend of mine, and lover of my wife, would walk but a few hundred paces, then turn and enter my grounds at the rear gate I have mentioned, and pass up the arbor to the pretty summer-house.

under Occurrences 3%

The torn and shattered arbors under their network of twigs, the rolling of an upset cask, the high swing whose wet rope groaned in the damp wind, and the inscriptions over the door, furrowed by bullets; "Cabinets de societéAbsintheVermouthVin à 60 cent.

after Occurrences 2%

Society, we may be sure, began to whisper of these snug parleys in the arbor after dinner, these shadowed mumblings on the balcony when the moon was upand Lady Digby stiffened into watchfulness.

behind Occurrences 2%

They could now see Yeri Foerster, his large felt hat decorated with a twig of heather, his calm eyes, his brown cheeks and grayish hair, seated on the stone bench near his doorway; two beautiful hunting dogs, with reddish-brown coats, lay at his feet, and the high vine arbor behind him rose to the peak of the gable roof.

by Occurrences 2%

"We will step over to that arbor by the garden.

within Occurrences 1%

There was a little arbor within the walls of the park, which for years had been a retreat from the summer heats to the ladies of the Moseley family; even so long as the youth of Mrs. Wilson it had been in vogue, and she loved it with a kind of melancholy pleasure, as the spot where she had first listened to the language of love from the lips of her late husband.

against Occurrences 1%

Soon,after a cautious, hesitating, listening look about,she slipped, swift footed as a fawn, across the garden, andfollowed by the dogdisappeared into the latticed rose-covered arbor against the southern wall.

among Occurrences 1%

The boys of the school used to build play-houses or arbors among the trees and bushes for their sweethearts.

between Occurrences 1%

So I threw up an arbor between them, and the crimson rambler now mounts eight feet in the air.

from Occurrences 1%

Just as she was about to stammer out some disconnected words, however, voices were heard behind the shrubbery, which separated the arbor from a neighboring walk, and this created a diversion.

into Occurrences 1%

As the days pass I fall in love with Sylvia, who has been persuaded to turn my arbor into a reading-room, and is often to be found there of mornings with one of Sir Walter's novels.

near Occurrences 1%

" Now, this silly prattle had been carried on in the arbor near the library, and Wesley, sitting under the curtain, had heard every word of it.

out Occurrences 1%

All us had was church meetin's in arbors out in de woods.

over Occurrences 1%

Two large lemon trees shade the entrance, and a vine, climbing to the top of the house, makes a leafy arbor over the flat roof.

through Occurrences 1%

Trenck dashed into the arbor to seize Resident Reimer, but the only evidence of that personage was his wig, which remained caught in the foliage at an opening in the rear of the arbor through which the resident had made his escape.

toward Occurrences 1%

A roomy arbor toward the front at the right.

Which preposition to use with  arbors