Which preposition to use with bluffing

of Occurrences 44%

Some show only a narrow crescent of water lying between the shore and sheer bluffs of icy compacted snow, masses of which breaking off float in front like icebergs in a miniature Arctic Ocean, while the avalanche heaps leaning back against the mountains look like small glaciers.

on Occurrences 32%

"Mother isn't putting up a bluff on us, is she, dearie?"

in Occurrences 24%

Thus the Shasta River issues from a large lake-like spring in Shasta Valley, and about two thirds of the volume of the McCloud River gushes forth suddenly from the face of a lava bluff in a roaring spring seventy-five yards wide.

to Occurrences 14%

I was floating down the Missouri River in a mackinaw boat, the sun just topping the high bad land bluffs to the east, when a splendid ram stepped out, upon a point far above the water, and stood there outlined against the sky.

above Occurrences 12%

In the Palace, on its bluff above the river, King Manuel was practically alone.

at Occurrences 11%

The only feasible method of approach to the spot I now sought would be by following this narrow strip of beach, yet this might be attempted safely, as my movements would be concealed by the darker background of the high bluff at the left.

from Occurrences 11%

Scrubby forelands set with cedars, shadow-flecked paths under the scrub oak, meadows where water glimmered, white sails off Center Island and Cooper's BluffCooper's Bluff from the north, northeast, east, southeast, souththis they painted with never-tiring, Pecksniffian patience, boxing the compass around it as enthusiastically as that immortal architect circumnavigated Salisbury Cathedral.

with Occurrences 9%

Every time you go to town on business he comes and sketches with us at" "Oh," said Mr. Carr, with the calm of deadly fury, "so he goes to Cooper's Bluff with you when I'm away, does he?" Flavilla said: "He doesn't exactly go with us; but he usually comes there to sketch.

near Occurrences 7%

We put up our tents the next evening, on a bold bluff near the outlet of Round Pond, a picturesque and pleasant sheet of water, some eight or ten miles in circumference.

about Occurrences 5%

She threw such a strong bluff about suing him for defamation of character that he came across with two hundred cold to keep her quiet.

for Occurrences 4%

"Partner," continued Werther, brushing away the big hand of Drew which would have pulled him down into his seat; "I've seen you bluff for two nights hand running.

before Occurrences 3%

John called a halt and asked: "Shall we go on, or return to the beach?" Blanche gazed on the frowning hills and bluffs before them and thought it best to return.

under Occurrences 3%

But her mind scarcely registered the impression, for a rifle ball struck the shaly edge of a bluff under which the road at this point ran, and tore loose a piece of the slate-like rock, which glanced whirling into the tonneau and grazed Gray Stoddard's temple.

as Occurrences 2%

Jerry with all his skill in the line of shooting had never been given the opportunity to kill a bear, and he felt that the time had gone by for him to class Bluff as a "come-on.

against Occurrences 2%

That this pet toy of the modern millionaire should be set to work out the crude vengeance of wild men in these primitive surroundings, crowded up on a little rocky path of these savage mountains, at the door of a cave spring-housesuch a food-cache as a nomad Indian might have utilized, in the gray bluff against the sky-lineit took the breath with its sinister strangeness.

like Occurrences 2%

It reached the willow bluff like a faint echo.

over Occurrences 2%

Dodd and I managed to pass away the day by drinking tea eight or ten times simply as an amusement, reading an odd volume of Cooper's novels which we had picked up at Gizhiga, and strolling along the high bluffs over the gulf with our rifles in search of foxes.

out Occurrences 2%

The tale is told that Lettow was furious when Fischer, the major in command at Moschi, was bluffed out of his impregnable position there by Vandeventer, evacuated the northern lines, and retired on Kahe, thus saving us the expense of taking a natural fortress that would have taxed all our energies.

along Occurrences 2%

Not that his days were all of teasing and torment, either; for if his comrades did sometimes treat him so, why then there were other times when he and they were as great friends as could be, and used to go a-swimming together in the most amicable fashion where there was a bit of sandy strand below the little bluff along the East River above Fort George.

into Occurrences 2%

Happily for me the most startling of his exploits, that of bending a timid War Committee of the Cabinet to his will in the winter of 1915-1916, and of bluffing into utter submission nearly a hundred thousand rampant munition workers who were eager to "down tools," fulfils all the Dawson conditions of importance.

for Occurrences 1%

Even as we went to and fro there, the leaders of the south and east were gathering their resolve, and the hot answer that shattered Gresham's bluffing for ever took shape and waited.

down Occurrences 1%

"I seen him bluff down the Wyoming Kid, yesterday.

in Occurrences 1%

"I've dealt myself a mighty queer card, but there's no good bluffing in this game.

beyond Occurrences 1%

of course it was land; land already so close at hand, his eyes could trace its conformationthe narrow strip of sand beach, the sharp bluff beyond, the fringe of trees crowning the summit.

below Occurrences 1%

Again and again Wolfe sent his men to storm the bluffs below the town.

Which preposition to use with  bluffing