Which preposition to use with barrier

of Occurrences 262%

A mad desire took possession of me to take my husband with me, and so to keep him from her, and also to have his company when I passed the barriers of life.

between Occurrences 135%

May it not be, that the time is coming when the barrier between the living, and the disembodied spirit is to be broken down?

to Occurrences 109%

The outrages perpetrated upon nature by the conventionalities of the world alone, would be an insurmountable barrier to the realization of your idea.

against Occurrences 76%

They were still hard at it, four days after the Jesuit had gone his way, surrounding the Big Cabin with a false wall, that final and effectual barrier against Boreasfinishing touch warranted to convert a cabin, so cold that it drove its inmates to drink, into a dwelling where practical people, without cracking a dreary joke, might fitly celebrate a House-Warming.

in Occurrences 45%

"Where there is no over-stepping of barriers in the practice of the higher virtues, there may be freedom to pass in and out in the practice of the lower ones.

with Occurrences 19%

Now whiles they sat thus in talk, up rose the sun, before whose joyous beams the stealthy mists slunk away little by little, until Beltane beheld Duke Ivo's mighty camplong lines of tents gay with fluttering pennon and gonfalon, of huts and booths set well out of bowshot behind the works of contravallationstout palisades and barriers with earthworks very goodly and strong.

at Occurrences 17%

On one occasion, when he passed the barrier at Vincennes, our agents fell upon him and searched him, under pretence of robbing him.

on Occurrences 9%

Thus we traversed without a single mishap the regions of the northeast and of the southeast trades, the stormy seas of the "roaring forties," the fogs of the fifties, the ice-filled sixties, and reached our field of work at the Ice Barrier on January 14, 1911.

for Occurrences 9%

And now all the paths are free wherever there is a mountain-pass or a river-ford; the roads are all blessed, and they are all open, and no barriers for those who will.' 'Oh,' she cried, 'dear friend, is that true for all?' He looked away from her into the depths of the lovely air, and he replied: 'Little sister, our faith is without bounds, but not our knowledge.

across Occurrences 6%

Admiral Bacon suggested later the extension of the minefield to the westward of the Varne Shoal, so as to make it a complete barrier across the Channel.

from Occurrences 5%

TABLE OF DISTANCES showing the length of the Outward and Return Marches on the Barrier from and to One Ton Camp.

as Occurrences 4%

There was before them a promised land in the extreme distance, but there intervened a tract of land which seemed as impassable a barrier as the much talked-of, but seldom inspected, Chinese Wall of old.

before Occurrences 4%

It is indeed a mighty barrier before the Lord.

within Occurrences 4%

Steinmetz knew of the mental barrier within this Anglo-Russian soul, against which prayer and argument were alike unavailing.

by Occurrences 3%

There were no natural barriers by which he could protect his flanks; and not only was he certain to be overlapped on either wing by the vast lines of the Persian army, but there was imminent risk of their circling round him, and charging him in the rear, while he advanced against their centre.

behind Occurrences 2%

Uninvited, and by methods not always of the gentlest, we have broken down the barriers behind which these ancient nations sought to conceal from the world without the mysteries, perhaps also, in the case of China at least, the raps and rottenness of their waning civilisations.

through Occurrences 2%

Frequently the trails were sodden, and often obliterated; soft snow piling up like drifts of feathers into fleecy barriers through which the dogs, with the aid and encouragement of their Master, fought their way, inch by inch.

than Occurrences 2%

Reduced at one time to buffalo-tallow and coffee for sustenance, there was not a day during the transit across the mountains when any stronger barrier than the lives of a few half-starved mules interposed between them and death by famine.

over Occurrences 2%

The part of the Barrier over which we had gone heretofore has an average height of 165 feet and looked like a flat plain which continued with slight undulations without any marked features that could have served for orientation.

without Occurrences 1%

It is these sudden breezes that are so fatal to ships caught off the outer barrier without an opening to get within its shelter.

above Occurrences 1%

The height of this barrier above the waves of the ocean was but a little less than a hundred feet, and when the summit was reached, a common exclamation of surprise, not to say delight, broke from the lips of both.

after Occurrences 1%

His spring work of surveying and sledging out to Corner Camp and the man-hauling, with Lashly, across the Barrier after the breakdown of the motors, had been successfully accomplished; this sequel to the Glacier and Summit marches was an unexpected blow.

along Occurrences 1%

By this time the wind had got round to the southwest, and was blowing quite fresh, bringing him well to windward of the mountain, but causing the ice-bergs to drift in towards the land, and placing an impassable barrier along its western shore.

among Occurrences 1%

I saw him seized by one maneven by the Red Axeraised high in the air, and flung over the barriers among the ravening and leaping blood-hounds.

beyond Occurrences 1%

The barriers beyond the suburb are called Lines, and between the Suburbs and the old town is an Esplanade.

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