Which preposition to use with brawled

in Occurrences 17%

Down this valley Rocky River came brawling in the spring, over-fed and quarrelsome.

with Occurrences 13%

In a bar-room brawl with two pot-valiant cowboys, he had come out supremely "on top."

of Occurrences 9%

Even at this distance you hear the shallow brawl of water on the stones.

at Occurrences 6%

I knew the seaman's trick of throwing, having seen their brawls at the pier of Leith, and I had no notion for the steel in my throat.

among Occurrences 4%

More than threescore Blackfeet braves had been killed within the year in drunken brawls among themselves.

between Occurrences 3%

Mr. Jackson had disappeared, taking his correspondence with him; Mrs. Jackson had gone into the kitchen, and when Mike appeared the thing had resolved itself into a mere vulgar brawl between Phyllis and Ella for the jam, while Marjory, recently affecting a grown-up air, looked on in a detached sort of way, as if these juvenile gambols distressed her.

over Occurrences 3%

"My dear old comrades," he said, "Don't let us brawl over this matter.

by Occurrences 2%

The mad king died; but the rushing river Still brawls by the spot where his donjon stands, And its swift waves sigh to the conscious sands That the curse of King Saloman works forever.

from Occurrences 1%

A desperate clamor, and sounds of brawls from the streets below, rose to his ears.

across Occurrences 1%

The river that floats timber to the town from the mountains does not slide nor rustle like Prairie rivers, but brawls across bars of blue pebbles, and a greenish tinge in its water hints of the snows.

Against Occurrences 1%

For I have sworn to God and all his saints, These arms erected in rebellious brawls Against my father and my sovereign, Shall fight the battles of the Lord of Hosts, In wrong'd Judaea and Palestina.

along Occurrences 1%

each star of summer hide, And fireless are the valleys far and wide, Where the brook brawls along the public

about Occurrences 1%

The external, the immediate, the idiots of the moment, telling tales that signify nothing, yet that so overcry the suggestion of our deeper life as by the sad and weary to be mistaken for the discourse of life itself,these obtrude themselves upon us, and multiply and brag and brawl about us, until we have neither room for better guests, nor spirits for their entertainment.

on Occurrences 1%

I. of this edition, wherein Lamb confesses to a brief sojourn in the stocks at Barnet for brawling on Sunday, an incident for the broad truth of which we have the testimony of his friend Brook Pulham.

through Occurrences 1%

A black brook brawling through a distant wood sounded loud in the stillness.

to Occurrences 1%

The bravery which finds outlet in duels they showed constantly; the bravery which finds outlet in street-fights they had shown from the days when the Duke of Orleans perished in a brawl to the days when the "Mignons" of Henry III. fought at sight every noble whose beard was not cut to suit them.

Which preposition to use with  brawled