Which preposition to use with bower

of Occurrences 171%

That night we made her a bower of green branches, and as we ate our supper round our modest fire she sat like a queen among us.

in Occurrences 26%

For Elspeth we made a bower in one corner, which we thatched with pine branches; but the rest of us slept in the open round the fire.

at Occurrences 6%

And you'll think of him, If you can step into his bower at Stepney.

with Occurrences 6%

Him to the secret bower with blushing cheek

on Occurrences 6%

[Illustration: "The bower on the mountain.

for Occurrences 4%

There is dew for the floweret, And honey for the bee, And bowers for the wild bird, And love for you and me.

under Occurrences 3%

So saying, Sir Fidelis arose, and taking the wallet in one hand and setting the other 'neath Beltane's arm, led him to where, deep-bowered under screening willows, a fire burned cheerily, whereby were two beds of scented bracken.

by Occurrences 3%

That bower by the loch, too, was favourable to the fondlings of a secret love; nor was it sometimes less to the prisoner a refuge from the eeriness which comes of ennuiif it is not the same thingunder the pressure of which strange feeling he would creep out at times when Annie could not be with him; nay, sometimes when the family had gone to bed.

about Occurrences 2%

Within a little parlour bowered about With garden-noises, filled with garden scent, As some sweet sea-shell rings with pearly chimes And sighs out fragrance of its mother's breast.

as Occurrences 2%

Nay,I must pray your knighthoodsYou must honour Our dais and bower as private guests to-day.

beside Occurrences 2%

This leaving me ample time to smoke a gasper or two in a shady bower beside the lake, I did so, repairing to my room round about the hour of three.

into Occurrences 2%

Coleridge is printing "Christabel," by Lord Byron's recommendation to Murray, with what he calls a vision, "Kubla Khan," which said vision he repeats so enchantingly that it irradiates and brings heaven and elysian bowers into my parlor while he sings or says it; but there is an observation, "Never tell thy dreams," and I am almost afraid that "Kubla Khan" is an owl that won't bear daylight.

over Occurrences 2%

Alder, Maple, and Nuttall's Flowering Dogwood make beautiful bowers over swift, cool streams at an elevation of from 3000 to 5000 feet, mixed more or less with willows and cottonwood; and above these in lake basins the aspen forms fine ornamental groves, and lets its light shine gloriously in the autumn months.

during Occurrences 1%

So long as the period lasts, she stays in the bower during the day-time, but is not again covered with sand.

between Occurrences 1%

"It was never so well understood at 'The Wayside' that its owner had retiring habits as when Alcott was reported to be approaching along Larch Path, which stretched in feathery bowers between our house and his.

within Occurrences 1%

To hold his dame in the greater surety, the King had built a bower within the wall; there was no fairer chamber beneath the sun.

round Occurrences 1%

It was a secluded little nook under an old oak-tree, where the moss grew thick and green, and bushes of all sorts and sizes formed a natural bower round the gnarled trunk.

than Occurrences 1%

It seemed altogether more like a fairy bower than a human habitation.

through Occurrences 1%

Tarsus was probably almost hidden then, as now, by its gardens, except just where it touched the river; and the dazzling vision of the Egyptian Queen, as she came up conquering and to conquer, must have been all the more bewildering, from the lovely bowers through which she sailed.

to Occurrences 1%

From bower to temple I went oft to sing, Or spread my wings above the mount divine, And viewed the fields from heights cerulean.

around Occurrences 1%

Overhanging trees formed a grateful bower around us.

among Occurrences 1%

My only guide, a brook whose joyous song, Seemed like a boy's light-hearted roundelay, As down it rushed, the leafy bowers among, Scattering o'er bud and bloom its pearly spray A beauteous semblance of life's opening day.

near Occurrences 1%

ROSAMOND, FAIR, a daughter of Lord Clifford, and mistress of Henry II., who occupied a bower near Woodstock, the access to which was by a labyrinth, the windings of which only the king could thread.

Which preposition to use with  bower