Which preposition to use with blotched

of Occurrences 37%

And now she came up to him, a little timidly, and she, too, looked back to the dark blotch of life out on the lake.

with Occurrences 13%

When they leave the Souris valley the hills are blue with distance and seem to promise wooded slopes, and maybe leaping streams, but a half-day's journey dispels the illusion, for when the traveller comes near enough to see the elevation as it is, it is only a rugged bluff, bald and bare, and blotched with clumps of mangy grass, with a fringe of stunted poplar at the base.

on Occurrences 11%

Her complaint may be even worse than typhoidI can't quite make out certain whitish blotches on her skin.

in Occurrences 10%

A table drawn out center and within range of the gas-range was a blotch in the gloom, three figures surrounding it with arms that moved vaguely among a litter of dishes.

at Occurrences 4%

It has lanceolate leaves that are glutinous above, and thickly covered with a whitish tomentum on the under sides, and large and showy vhite flowers with a conspicuous purple blotch at the base of each petal.

under Occurrences 2%

Its bill was held to the large blotch under my arm, and kept there till the fowl died from the noxious matter it drew forth.

to Occurrences 2%

Kazan and the sledge became only a dark blotch to her.

with Occurrences 1%

Had the spirit then so rife really prevailed, the map of America to-day might have been no less blotched with the morbid tetter of particularism than that of the Germany of sixty years ago.

beyond Occurrences 1%

Suspicion rested on them, as they had failed to take out inspection papers for moving the cattle, and what few people had seen them declared that one half the cattle were brand burnt or blotched beyond recognition.

against Occurrences 1%

The lantern which illuminated the interior of the room showed only a round blotch against the darkness.

Which preposition to use with  blotched