Which preposition to use with buttress

of Occurrences 46%

Then, all at once, something caught my vision, something that came 'round one of the huge buttresses of the House, and so into full view.

with Occurrences 8%

ZAIDA OF TOLEDO Upon a gilded balcony, which decked a mansion high, A place where ladies kept their watch on every passer-by, While Tagus with a murmur mild his gentle waters drew To touch the mighty buttress with waves so bright and blue, Stands Zaida, radiant in her charms, the flower of Moorish maids,

at Occurrences 6%

The first of these, on the rear of the church, is an otagonal structure with pinnacled buttresses at each angle.

in Occurrences 4%

This spire was of timber covered with lead; "but, not long after, they began to build them of stone, and to finish all their buttresses in the same manner."

against Occurrences 4%

And she dropped lightly on to the snow-slope beaten by the wind into an icy buttress against the wall.

on Occurrences 4%

This, which dates in its foundation from long before the Conquest, is to-day a great cruciform building consisting roughly of Norman nave and transepts, the nave buttressed on the north in the thirteenth century, fifteenth-century chancel and western tower, and thirteenth-century north porchaltogether one of the most glorious churches left to us in England.

from Occurrences 2%

It had been sunny since morning, and the snow had melted from the roads, but the hills across the plain were still white and great drifts were piled against the ramparts, forming a natural buttress from the summit of the steep river bank almost to the deep embrasures of the wall.

to Occurrences 2%

The Federalists, on the other hand, held that want of strength was the principal defect of the system, and were for adding new buttresses to the Constitutional edifice.

for Occurrences 2%

21,22 I his eldest son, the chosen of his heart, 23,24 Imgur-Bel and Nimetti-Bel 25,26 the great walls of Babylon, completed: 27 buttresses for the embankment of its fosse, 28 and two long embankments 29 with cement and brick I built, and 30 with the embankment my father had made 31,32 I joined them; and to the city for protection 33,34 I brought near an embankment of enclosure 35 beyond the river, westward.

like Occurrences 1%

The smooth, soft stone was used throughout the building, harder stone being used for the vaultings, and on the exterior the buttresses and pinnacles, as well as the flying buttresses like small bridges between them, were of the hardest granite, which from age had taken a golden colour, and which protected and supported the airy delicacy of the interior.

beyond Occurrences 1%

But the builder was rash enough to build the north-west buttresses beyond the edge of the old excavation and resting on the looser material.

beneath Occurrences 1%

They had no time to talk, but with, a speed winged by fear got to the school, sprang on the buttress beneath the window, effected their entrance, and vanished after replacing the barEric to his study, and Wildney to his dormitory.

over Occurrences 1%

The flying buttress over the south aisle restores a feature of the old building which had disappeared.

by Occurrences 1%

And out of them, buttress by buttress, growing and going upwards, aspiring tower by tower, rose the cathedral.

into Occurrences 1%

The mouldings and slopes dividing buttresses into stages.

Which preposition to use with  buttress