Which preposition to use with automobile

in Occurrences 56%

Nine miles is nothing these days, but when you first came to the farm there was only one automobile in the township.

with Occurrences 23%

It was not till they were well down the road to Cottonville that she realized the bald fact that she, a mill girl, was riding in an automobile with one of the mill owners.

at Occurrences 13%

The zebras and giraffes are the dudes of the show, and you can imagine, if they were human, they would play tennis and golf, drive four in hands and pose to be admired, while the Royal Bengal tigers, if they were half human, would drive automobiles at the rate of a mile a minute on crowded streets, run over people and never stop to help the wounded, but skip away with a sneer, as much as to say: "What are you going to do about it?"

on Occurrences 12%

Sight-seeing automobiles on mission and commission bent allow Altoona, Iowa City, and Quincy, Illinois, fifteen minutes' stop-in at Ching Ling-Foo's Chinatown Delmonico's.

to Occurrences 12%

If you take an automobile to California, John, you must put it on snowshoes and connect it with a steam heating-plant.

of Occurrences 10%

"Why that's an automobile of course," and started for the front door.

for Occurrences 10%

By the time they had finished the simple meal Wampus had had his coffee and prepared the automobile for the day's journey.

from Occurrences 9%

We drive our automobiles from one place to another, at furious speed, not knowing what we shall do when we get there.

by Occurrences 5%

Through the wide use of automobiles by the farmer we shall get, in time, that most valuable agency for prosperity, the good road.

down Occurrences 3%

Music at full blast, roar of traffic, voices like whisperin' without end, flash of red an' white an' blue, shine of a thousand automobiles down that wonderful street that's like a canon!

toward Occurrences 3%

It was mid-afternoon; and all day, since early breakfast, we had been working our way in automobiles toward this destination.

out Occurrences 3%

We will take an automobile out to the spot where young Prescott is to meet the foreign agent.

without Occurrences 2%

Sabrina returns to the chorus so that she can keep an apartment, a maid and an automobile without causing comment.

before Occurrences 2%

Advocate a further regulation of the speed of automobiles before (a) automobile-owners, (b) non-owners.

like Occurrences 2%

For me, I American, sir, and my name celebrate over all the world for knowing automobile like father knows his son."

past Occurrences 2%

Huge trams swam past him like glass houses, and hansoms shot past the trams and automobiles past the hansoms; and phantom barges swirled down on the full ebb, threading holes in bridges as cotton threads a needle.

into Occurrences 1%

There was, it is true, the single small instance of the excited noncom. who poked a large, unwholesome-looking automatic pistol into my shrinking diaphragm when he wanted me to get off the running board of a military automobile into which I had climbed, half a minute before, by invitation of the private who steered it.

under Occurrences 1%

"I should regret exceedingly," he remarked at our first involuntary stop, "to return from this altogether extraordinary trip without seeing the automobile under adverse conditions.

up Occurrences 1%

They said that a camp fire had abruptly picked itself up bodily and was slipping rapidly as a speeding automobile up a bare white slide of rock so steep that a mountain goat would give one glance and hunt up an easier trail.

across Occurrences 1%

It is monotonously lonesome running an automobile across country alone; the record-breaker may enjoy it, but the civilized man does not; man is a gregarious animal, especially in his sports; one must have an audience, if an audience of only one.

about Occurrences 1%

" "Then you didn't mean what you were saying in the automobile about having doubts?" "Not a word of it.

Which preposition to use with  automobile