Which preposition to use with bushes

of Occurrences 123%

Next the water there is a girdle of carices with wide overarching leaves, then in regular order a shaggy ruff of huckleberry bushes, a zone of willows with here and there a bush of the Mountain Ash, then a zone of aspens with a few pines around the outside.

in Occurrences 95%

None hindered my movements, so, liking little the smell of wet, uncleanly garments which clung around the fire, I made my bed in a heather bush in the lee of a boulder, and from utter weariness fell presently asleep.

on Occurrences 65%

Next instant, I had burst into a little clear space, just in time to see something, livid white in color, disappear among the bushes on the opposite side.

with Occurrences 59%

With a shout, I ran toward it; but, though I struck and probed among the bushes with my stick, I neither saw nor heard anything further; and so returned to Pepper.

at Occurrences 57%

They had a vague and confused recollection of seeing the boys gathered around something in the bushes at the brook that groaned a little and made queer sputtering noises.

to Occurrences 38%

Then, as I turned homeward, I heard a short, unintelligible noise, among the bushes to my right.

for Occurrences 32%

The boys of the school used to build play-houses or arbors among the trees and bushes for their sweethearts.

by Occurrences 22%

She was standing in among some bushes by the roadside.

near Occurrences 19%

" "It is a bit open jest in front of here; but I took note that further to the westward was a little more of green," Sergeant Corney said, half to himself, and I knew he was picturing in his mind the two of us making the attempt where was not a blade of grass to give shelter, for the "green" of which he spoke was nothing more than the fragment of a bush near the stockade.

behind Occurrences 15%

In an instant a fierce volley is returned, and Barney, who is fairly in the bush behind a huge tree, hears a low groan.

from Occurrences 14%

Seeing Pepper thus mutilated, a furious feeling of anger seized me, and, whirling my staff, I sprang across, and into the bushes from which Pepper had emerged.

into Occurrences 11%

The windthere was generally a wind on the heathstirred the fir-trees and the bushes into a soft movement and a faint murmur of sound.

along Occurrences 10%

The Morris garden was really not a garden but a large piece of ground with the grass worn bare in many places, a few trees scattered about, and some raspberry and currant bushes along the fence.

without Occurrences 10%

Staring into the bushes without a yip, she appeared to be bearing these slurs and innuendos of mine with an easy calm.

about Occurrences 9%

" She scrutinized the sparse growth, the leafless bushes about the spot, looking for signs of a struggle, and the question in her heart was, "My God, was he alive or dead?"

like Occurrences 9%

Run in bush like monkey, without him clo'es.

beside Occurrences 8%

Now as they drew near the moon peeped out, and showed a man huddled 'neath a bush beside the way, whose face gleamed pale amid the shadows.

over Occurrences 8%

And after that one cry Gray Wolf slunk back to the fringe of bush over the river, and lay with her face turned to the stream.

around Occurrences 7%

"Thank you so much!" When Jeanne-Marie returned to the little clearing where she had left Graham, she brought him several milkweed pods, as well as a few cookies she had picked from the bushes around the base of MacDonald's rock.

unto Occurrences 6%

And the message was sharp; and bade me to leap into the bushes unto my left; and to hide there; so that I might chance to take the thing to an advantage.

toward Occurrences 5%

Our Negroes had lagged behind with the provisions; and, hungry and thirsty, we tethered our horses to the trees at the bottom of a gully, and went down through the bush toward a low cliff.

against Occurrences 4%

So much so, that when their own relatives seem about to die they put them out in the bush with a small fire and a gourd of water, protected by a small erection of bush against the mid-day sun, and leave the hyaenas to do the rest.

above Occurrences 4%

The roadway was packed with them, the rocks and the bushes above the river seemed alive with them.

under Occurrences 4%

I have our great philosopher Tur-KeyYes, it should be written with a hyphenwho will give us a little talk among the currant bushes under the tea-roses[To a passing HEN.]

after Occurrences 4%

We were within a day's march of the Indian town, and had lain down in a thicket of spruce bushes after having looked in vain for some signs of a prisoner, as we had done during each of the four days while we were directly behind the band and at no time more than two miles distant.

Which preposition to use with  bushes