Which preposition to use with attic

in Occurrences 13%

When these two gentlemen had parted, and the Reverend OCTAVIUS SIMPSON had been escorted to the ferry, as promised, by MONTGOMERY PENDRAGON, the latter, after a long, insane walk about the city, with the thermometer at 98 degrees, returned to his attic in time to surprise a stranger climbing in through one of the back windows.

of Occurrences 12%

Jacopo was again in the attic of the Doge's palace, accompanied by the gentle Gelsomina.

with Occurrences 11%

In the bitter cold winters he fed and clothed the poor of Belleville, going from attic to attic with money and consolation.

at Occurrences 11%

While he was doing so, a tiny part of her brain was, as it were, automatically exploring a box of old books in the attic at home and searching therein for a Gasc's French-English Dictionary which she had used at school and never thought of since.

for Occurrences 5%

He locked me in the attic for safe keeping, but I got free, and here I am, on my way totoon my way to find work.

to Occurrences 5%

I come from my attic to this, and I am afraid.

as Occurrences 3%

A man who can make two or three hundred a year by sticking colours anyhow, at any hazard, on canvases by producing alleged pictures that in Alice's secret view bore only a comic resemblance to anything at allthat man had to be taken seriously in his attic as an artisan.

under Occurrences 3%

An attic under the thatched roof with all one end knocked out completed the outfit.

on Occurrences 3%

I fancy that he went spying in the attic on a rainy day.

over Occurrences 2%

In the attic over this old 'adobe,' Don Juan Soberanes, from whom we bought this ranch, kept his cash in gold dust and slugs in a clothes-basket.

after Occurrences 1%

'She came to our attic after that with her mother; they came to see my old master, and she was pleased to see the snowdrops.

without Occurrences 1%

Fyfe had finished it from basement to attic without a word to her that he had any such undertaking in hand.

along Occurrences 1%

They would spend the days playing together, going through the whole pile of music sheets they kept stored in the attic along with those accursed medical books.

behind Occurrences 1%

Over each column of the principal building is an isolated statue with an attic behind them, after the manner of the ancient building called by Palladio the Forum Trajan at Rome.

during Occurrences 1%

I was driven out of my attic during the middle hours of the day, and the others found it pleasanter on the doubly shaded stoop than in their chambers.

from Occurrences 1%

The omission of these details not only weakened the support given to the arches of the dome, but it also lent a stilted effect to the cupola by abruptly separating the perpendicular lines of the drum and attic from the segment of the vaulting.

into Occurrences 1%

Nancy, her sleeves rolled up, her curly hair flecked with dust and cobwebs, flew down from the attic into Kathleen's room just after supper.

like Occurrences 1%

While Gelsomina sought the key of the door before which they stopped, in the large bunch she carried, the Bravo breathed the hot air of the attic like one who was suffocating.

next Occurrences 1%

"Oh, it's nothing really," answered Vance; "only somebody said once that the house is haunted, and Kennedy and Jacobs say the ghost must be in the big attic next their room.

than Occurrences 1%

And with these exceptions, he will employ his sallies of wit and his facetiousness in such a manner as I have never found any one of those men do who consider themselves Attic speakers, though there is nothing more Attic than that practice.

throughout Occurrences 1%

you have not escaped the scientific mania that is mounting from area to attic throughout this country.

Which preposition to use with  attic