Which preposition to use with awning
My uncle has a stately pleasure barge, Gilded and gay, adorn'd with wondrous charge; The mast is polish'd, and the sails are fine, The awnings of white silk like silver shine; The seats of crimson sattin, where the rowers Keep time to music with their painted oars; In this on holydays we oft resort To Richmond, Twickenham, or to Hampton Court.
We then started for a trip on the lakes, but before long there came a violent squall which obliged the sailors to take down the awnings in double-quick time, and drove every one down into the cabins.
Heavy dew dripped from the awnings on Terrier's bridge and in places trickled through the material, since canvas burns in the African sun.
It was a big double one, with an awning over it to shelter it from the sun's rays, and the horses were drawn up in the shade of a spreading tree.
It was a long, narrowing perspective of arcades, lattices, balconies, zaguans, dormer windows, and blue skyof low, tiled roofs, red and wrinkled, huddled down into their own shadows; of canvas awnings with fluttering borders, and of grimy lamp-posts twenty feet in height, each reaching out a gaunt iron arm over the narrow street and dangling a lamp from its end.
Chairs are placed in great numbers under the awnings before the cafés.
Sukey would halt in the middle of the street, make an awning for herself and begin business, while Edward strolled off to see about selling his peltries.
The sailors pitched a pavilion, with golden tassels, for the captain upon the deck, and then went, all but the helmsman, under a sail that they had hung as an awning between two masts.
The fringe of the course blazed with ladies' finery, and a tent had been set up with a wide awning from which the fashionables could watch the sport.
The crowd was decidedly a heterogeneous one on the edge of which I stood at eight o'clock, A.M., one scorching July morning, under an awning at the end of a rickety pier, waiting for the excursion-steamer which was to convey us to the distant sand-banks over which the clear waters lap, away down below the green-sloped highlands of Neversink,sea-shoal banks, from which silvery fishes were warning us off with their waving fins.
We had no sooner sat down under the awning than the Vicomte and "Antoine" and two other officers turned up.
Most of the nations of the earth are at issue under a stretch of white awning above a crowded deck.