Which preposition to use with august

to Occurrences 71%

Seasonable from August to April.

of Occurrences 68%

Some idea of their resources, and of the advantages and disadvantages they offer to bee-keepers, may be formed from an excursion that I made into the San Gabriel Range about the beginning of August of "the dry year."

in Occurrences 35%

Each time I returned from abroad I was always a welcome guest at Greenlaw, as their place outside the city of Burns was called, and this occasion proved no exception, for the country houses of Dumfries are always gay in August in prospect of the shooting.

for Occurrences 12%

These Indians spoke excellent English and the chief loved the white man's money, so a ceremony that has been held during the month of August for many centurieslong before the Spanish conquistadors found this interesting tribewas found to be on tap for that very evening.

at Occurrences 11%

My Alpino friend had been wounded in the leg last August at Rombon, and still walked lame.

with Occurrences 9%

Oh, apropos of my erudite friend, Marthe, he has promised to spend August with us, so you will have to look to your culinary laurels, for he is accustomed to dine at Delmonico's.

from Occurrences 5%

He and I were bringing back my working party on the 10th of August from Versa to Rubbia in a lorry.

as Occurrences 5%

" The first witness called was Inspector Seldon, who gave evidence as to his visit to Riversbrook shortly before 1 p. m. on the 19th of August as the result of information received, and his discovery of the dead body of Sir Horace Fewbanks.

than Occurrences 4%

No one would suspect, glancing into that library, that underneath the usual top layer of light reading, was matter less august than Law, Poetry, Science, and Revelation.

on Occurrences 3%

I arranged to come back next morning to help with the lifting, and went on to another hospital in the Rue Nerviens, to find that little English lady who crossed with me in the Ostend boat in August on the way to her sister's hospital in Antwerp.

after Occurrences 3%

"What o'clock was it when you left Riversbrook on the 18th of August after your master's return from Scotland?" "About half-past seven, sir.

without Occurrences 2%

The landing in France was effected between the 10th and the 20th of August without the loss of a single man, and on the 23d, having joined forces with the French army under General Joffre, commander-in-chief, the British found themselves in touch with the German enemy at Mons in Belgium.

by Occurrences 1%

They may be had in flower from May to August by making two sowings, one in September and the other in February, and keeping them in the greenhouse.

between Occurrences 1%

They knew nothing but what they had seen in their own ditches on the fighting ground, they were sick with horror at the monstrous character of the war, and they had a rankling grudge against the French because they had not been supported strongly enough during those weeks in August between Charleroi and Compiègne.

through Occurrences 1%

Then, too, she had shown herself dignified in her fall, never uttering a regret or a complaint, parading, with her eighty years, so long a succession of fierce appetites, of abominable maneuvers, of inordinate gratifications, that she became august through them.

among Occurrences 1%

Arriving in August among the whalers then settled in Queen Charlotte's Sound, Colonel Wakefield enlisted Dicky Barrett's services, and, passing on to Port Nicholson, entered into a series of negotiations with the Maori chiefs, which led to extensive land purchases.

under Occurrences 1%

The man employed at this time was a certain Cesare da Castel Durante, who was murdered in August under the following circumstances, communicated by Tiberio Calcagni to Lionardo Buonarroti on the 14th of that month: "I have only further to speak about the death of Cesare, clerk of the works, who was found by the cook of the Bishop of Forli with his wife.

until Occurrences 1%

The honeymoon lasted from August until October, 1712, when Montagu had to go to Westminster.

across Occurrences 1%

We travelled the whole of the 31st August across a succession of broken passes; so complicated were the valleys and so broken were the range of hills, that we were unable to tell when we reached the back-bone of the ridge, and we struggled on in doubt and difficulty till we were again overtaken by the shades of night.

about Occurrences 1%

The 14. of August about breake of day in the morning, there came two boats with Pilots and men abord our ship, that were sent out by our owners, and brought vs some fresh victuailes, which done they hoysed vp our ankers, and about noone we sayled into the Tessel, and ankered in the channell, where we had fresh victuailes enough, for we were all weake.

Which preposition to use with  august