Which preposition to use with bumped

into Occurrences 77%

If he really does bump into a rock he cuts in an arithmetic book for his latitude and longitude and lets it go at that.

against Occurrences 44%

" "But that's all right," said Patsy, smiling at the praise; "we'd never have dared to start a newspaper anywhere else, because a journal that will do for Millville might not make a hit if it bumped against experienced competition.

on Occurrences 36%

Those bumps on the head, that swollen eye, and nose, camedid they?from swinging this here club for exercise.

of Occurrences 31%

You have brilliant talents, but your bump of cash payments is remarkably small.

over Occurrences 24%

With a nod, but without a word, the Sergeant got into the car, and in cautious whispers directed its course to the shelter of the clump of trees; they reached it after a few hundred yards of smooth road and some thirty of bumping over the heath.

in Occurrences 14%

The Devil a bit she shall, good Father mine, no, no, I have more years than you, Sir Father, and understand what Women are, especially when married to ancient Men, and have the Conversation of young Menwhose Eyes like Basilisks destroy Modesty with looking on 'em; the very Thought on't has rais'd a Bump in my Forehead already.

down Occurrences 6%

The owner of those eyes, and of a surprising head of florid hair, had barely time to draw back into the shadow of the corridor and notice an approaching face like that of one walking in his sleep, when the clove-eater swung disjointedly by him, with jingling lantern, and went fiercely bumping down the stairway.

along Occurrences 5%

What agonies the stricken man within endured, tossed from side to side as the cart bumped along the rough road, through ruts and over rocks and stumps of trees, must have been beyond description, but not once during all that long night did I hear a groan or complaint from him.

from Occurrences 4%

We pulled onto the grass as there came thundering past, bumping from one rough place to another on the poor road and going at a sickening pace, a string of huge motor cars crowded with infantrymen.

to Occurrences 3%

Bessie was fond of romping games, and preferred by far getting a few knocks and bumps to being helped or guided by others when she was at play.

at Occurrences 3%

He kept perfect silence for about two minutes, while the car skidded and bumped at the rear of the procession.

through Occurrences 3%

The wagon bumped through the beet patch to where, at the edge of a thicket, a trench had been dug.

across Occurrences 2%

But Sir George allowed no respite: in five minutes they were clear of the houses and riding hard for Chippenham, the next stage on the Bristol road; Sir George's horse cantering free, the lawyer's groaning as it bumped across Studley bridge and its rider caught the pale gleam of the water below.

out Occurrences 2%

He listened calmly to Mother Shipton's desire to cut somebody's heart out, to the repeated statements of the Duchess that she would die in the road, and to the alarming oaths that seemed to be bumped out of Uncle Billy as he rode forward.

onto Occurrences 1%

But on Easter Eve a heavy packing-case was bumped onto my doorstep.

within Occurrences 1%

190 Arrived, by pure necessity compell'd, On her majestic marrow-bones she kneel'd: Then to the water's brink she laid her head, And as a bittour bumps within a reed, To thee alone, O lake, she said, I tell, (And, as thy queen, command thee to conceal!)

behind Occurrences 1%

We stopped once more to hitch on a small wood-cart, and with that bumping behind us, we trailed along fearfully slowly.

past Occurrences 1%

But he had a view of what satisfied him that to this accident he owed his life, and it was a sense of gratitude for his escape, that prompted the exclamation I heard as he went bumping past me.

than Occurrences 1%

But even as he did so, a bigger bump than any they had yet encountered jerked him abruptly from his place.

as Occurrences 1%

It blocks up the floor under my hooks, and when I hang things up I fall over it backwards, when I sit on the floor, which I have to do every time I pull out my trunk, it hits me savagely on the spine, and once, when I tried balancing it on a small chest of drawers, it promptly fell down on my head and I have still a large and painful bump as a memento.

amongst Occurrences 1%

She was shown into the room where the doctor was hard at work; but Teddy lay like a waxen image, with the sweetest smile on his lips, his fair curls clustering round his brow, and only an ugly bump amongst the curls told the reason of his sinking under the water again so suddenly.

toward Occurrences 1%

He felt a lump growing in his throat, and to keep down the tears that for some reason were creeping into his eyes, he let drive at a ball that came bumping toward him and kicked it so hard that Selkirk had to chase it half down the field.

under Occurrences 1%

She had no time or room to turn and get clear by backing out through the belt of pack stern first, getting heavy bumps under the counter and on the rudder as she did so, for the ice was heavy and the swell considerable.

up Occurrences 1%

to harrow it back and begin in her behalf the remarkable engineering which had laid out for herself that broad highway across all the thrifty and energetic bumps up to Veneration (who knows how much it had had to do with mixing them in one common tingle of mutual and unceasing activity?) and down again from ear to ear.

for Occurrences 1%

Of all such persons, the one with microscopes in his bumps for eyes is the most bumptious.

Which preposition to use with  bumped