Which preposition to use with bugs

in Occurrences 21%

"Yes, you can lock your door, Mrs. Gilligan, and we'll lock ours, and we'll all be as snug" "As bugs in a rug," finished Laura, putting an arm about Violet and pushing her into the other room.

on Occurrences 6%

It made her so nervous that she had to have Wilburthat's her husbandgo out and put a bug on the Ginny before she would allow the flag to drop.

of Occurrences 6%

"In supposing it to be a bug of real gold."

for Occurrences 5%

It was Ignacio, the little Indian who cared for her horse, ran errands, and fought garden bugs for herIgnacio, the note-bearer.

with Occurrences 4%

As (owing to the present facilities of freighting, etc.,) the Potatoes of Pendleton may eventually find the New York market, which always invites the superior esculent, we would like to suggest to Mr. JOHNSON that this Mixture be administered to the Bug with a spoon, and not sprinkled promiscuously on the ground.

from Occurrences 3%

The two continued on in silence, Dick trolling along, switching the bugs from the pink blossoms that filled the air with an enervating odor.

between Occurrences 2%

Its post-house is also noted, as I can vouch for, for the largest and most venomous bugs between Teherán and Ispahán.

to Occurrences 2%

If he even see a straddle-bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get toto wherever he was going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle-bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road.

at Occurrences 2%

Again, the down-stream angler contends that when a fish is fastened on a hook, taking the lure in a current, that he is more likely to be well hooked, hence more certain of capture when the line is tense, than when rising to a floating bug at the end of a looping line and leader.

out Occurrences 1%

Peter Siner stood in the sunlight just outside the entrance, watching his old mother clean the bugs out of a tainted ham that she had bought for a pittance from some white housekeeper in the village.

over Occurrences 1%

"I know the time when you were bugs over her yourself, Rann.

by Occurrences 1%

And whether, in Mathews' Bible, A.D. 1537, the 5th verse of the 91st Psalm is not thus rendered: "Thou shalt not need to be afraid of any bugs by night"? literally, in the Hebrew, "Terror of the night.

across Occurrences 1%

Drawing the artificial bugs across and slightly up stream over the mirrored bosom of a pool is apt to leave a wake behind them which may not inaptly be compared with the one created by a small stern-wheel steamer; an unnatural condition of things, but of such is a trout's make-up.

about Occurrences 1%

Haddon, she's got a bug about that dress, and she says she wants to take it to London with her, to use on the opening night.

along Occurrences 1%

And over all, like a monstrous race of ants, was flung an army of menmud-covered, dirty, dishevelled men, who crawled in and out of the holes of their digging, crept like big bugs along the flumes, and toiled and sweated at the gravel-heaps which they kept in constant unrestmen, as far as the eye could see, even to the rims of the hilltops, digging, tearing, and scouring the face of nature.

Which preposition to use with  bugs