Which preposition to use with boulders

of Occurrences 48%

About that time I dropped a boulder of coal, taken from the scuttle, weighing about half a pound, right among them (accidently of course).

on Occurrences 19%

"Never mind," I replied, "throw your fly across towards that boulder on the bank, and trail it home, and you'll see.

in Occurrences 18%

But the Ouzel, born on the brink of a stream, or on a snag or boulder in the midst of it, seldom leaves it for a single moment.

from Occurrences 8%

They had seen him lift great logs, wrench boulders from the earth.

with Occurrences 7%

They had laboured without cessation, breaking up rock, levering out boulders with crowbars, and doing a sort of rough-and-ready levelling, and by the night of the 24th the track was reported passable for guns.

at Occurrences 7%

He sniffed, as he had sniffed once before a long time ago, between the boulders at the top of the Sun Rock.

for Occurrences 7%

Yonder let us spread broad sheets of soil, that man and beast may be fed; and here pile trains of boulders for pines and giant Sequoias.

to Occurrences 7%

Yet these fine fellows walked fearlessly to the brink, and jumped from boulder to boulder, holding themselves in easy poise above the whirling, confusing current, as if they were doing nothing extraordinary.

among Occurrences 3%

Everything that Nature can do to make amends for this uninteresting spot is lavishly squandered upon the valley, for wherever man has left things alone there are heavy canopies of foliage, and mossy boulders among the rushing streams; and if you will but take the trouble to climb up to the heather, even the mines are dwarfed into insignificance.

over Occurrences 3%

I had it hidden by dragging a boulder over it.

against Occurrences 3%

We find also, issuing from under each glacier a stream, carrying the finest mud, the result of the grinding of the boulders against each other and the glacier.

beside Occurrences 2%

A chuckle came from a boulder beside the track, and Holman's cheery voice set my pulses beating.

along Occurrences 2%

One might camp on the rugged shores of these bright fountains for weeks, without meeting any animal larger than the marmots that burrow beneath glacier boulders along the edges of the meadows.

down Occurrences 2%

It was a rough ride, over water-washed boulders down the Dyea Valley; but he roused only when the wagon hit the highest places.

than Occurrences 2%

The statue is immensely massive, a vast ponderosity of stone, not finely spiritualized, nor indeed, fully humanized, but rather resembling a great stone-boulder than a man.

above Occurrences 1%

On Tuesday afternoon we went up to the Big Boulder above Ski slope.

round Occurrences 1%

That icebergs brought and dropped boulders round their flanks.

through Occurrences 1%

They walked the boulder through the gate and to one end of a flower bed.

about Occurrences 1%

Before it was a square pile of boulders about the height of a man's waist, heaped on the top with brushwood so that it looked like a rude altar.

towards Occurrences 1%

Still she seemed to linger in the death-struggle, and we turned at last away; when, lo! a wave, huger than all before it, rushed up the boulders towards us.

around Occurrences 1%

In the middle of the open space was an immense boulder around which many wild beasts had gathered.

behind Occurrences 1%

And, leaning their trembling bodies against a great boulder behind them, they then saw in the midst of the conflagration, or hovering dimly above it rather, the vast outlines of the captured soundsthe Lettersescaping back again into the womb of eternal silence from which they had been with such appalling courage evoked.

under Occurrences 1%

I am half inclined to think that his insistence was mainly intended to abbreviate the martyrdom of Longfellow, whom I conducted every day to the Oaks, to insure pre-Raphaelite fidelity, making him sit on a huge boulder under the tree and even forgetting to carry a cushion for him, so that he sat on the bare stone until at last the discomfort was evident to me, when I folded my coat to cushion his stone seat.

beneath Occurrences 1%

Poor Simplicio must have been pulled under at once and his life beaten out on the boulders beneath the racing torrent.

between Occurrences 1%

There lay Applegate Farm, tucked like a big gray boulder between its two orchards.

Which preposition to use with  boulders