Which preposition to use with buzzed

of Occurrences 118%

"Do you think it's her?" A buzz of electric interest went around the group.

in Occurrences 41%

then his whimsical vagaries effectually defy repose; now settling with his tickling bandy legs upon your nose, and industriously insinuating his sharp proboscis, and anon abruptly buzzing in your earno secretoff he shoots again to his own music.

about Occurrences 40%

The head man of the tribe and his followers were soon buzzing about his ears like a swarm of wasps; but seeing he was not to be frightened by their threats they showed themselves ready enough in the future to supply him with cattle in return for payment.

with Occurrences 27%

And he, bare and empty-handed, who now possessed nothing, not even a stone at the edge of a field, would doubtless always possess nothing, neither factory buzzing with workmen, nor mansion rearing its proud front aloft.

like Occurrences 19%

His flight is solid and impetuous, without any intermission of wing-beats,one homogeneous buzz like that of a laden bee on its way home.

around Occurrences 14%

" I looked around, and it struck me that the trade of the place mainly consisted in chops and steaks for chance customers at mid-day, and tea and cake for those swarms of women who each afternoon buzz around that long line of windows of the "world's provider."

round Occurrences 9%

Then he pulled himself together with a sharp effort and entered into the conversation that had begun again to buzz round him.

on Occurrences 8%

Before one of these, for no particular reason distinguishable from the others, Mrs. Burkhardt stepped up two shallow steps and turned a key in the center of the door, which set up a buzz on its reverse side.

from Occurrences 5%

" "And well we know how to guard it, captin!" cried the same ominous voice; and there was a buzz from the length of the company.

at Occurrences 4%

Aix will have gone to bed, and in bed it will peacefully stay unless a military Zeppelin sails over its rooftrees, making a noise like ten million locusts all buzzing at once.

into Occurrences 3%

The operator buzzed into his ear as he took down the receiver; San Francisco was trying to get a message through.

behind Occurrences 2%

These were the hurried sentences that made the buzz behind the scenes; while in front "all the world wondered."

past Occurrences 2%

tossed back the Kid as the flung frying-pan buzzed past his ear."Now

through Occurrences 2%

When the word was given, the horses all got off well and Dexter immediately took the lead,buzzing through the air like a humming-top,followed closely by Lady Thorn, her nose just lapping his off jaw.

along Occurrences 2%

There is a low murmur rather than a buzz along the hedgerow; but over it the hot summer breeze brings the thumping, rattling, booming sound of hollow metal striking against the ground or in contact with other metal.

without Occurrences 1%

All waits the moment when the multitude, already buzzing without at the western entrance, shall spread themselves over the mosaic floor, and throng each chapel, altar, gallery, and transeptwhen anthems of praise shall peal from the double doors of the painted organ, and holy rites give a mystic language to the sacred symbols around.

for Occurrences 1%

Now, what do you mean, Anthony, by not answering the phone when I buzz for you? ANTHONY:

inside Occurrences 1%

"Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?" "Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse.

across Occurrences 1%

Happily, the discussion required no mental effort, and left them both free to hear and make mental comments on the dialogue that buzzed across the way.

off Occurrences 1%

" The signalers leaped to their instruments, buzzed off the call, and getting through, rattled their messages off.

outside Occurrences 1%

It seemed very pleasant, after wandering in the Old World and the New, to be in my own home once more, surrounded by the grand trees I so dearly loved; to see the gorgeous sunsets, the twinkling fireflies; to hear the whippoorwills call their familiar note, while the June bugs and the mosquitoes buzz outside the nets through which they cannot enter.

over Occurrences 1%

Three monoplanes buzzed over us, making sawmill sounds, during the next hour or two.

throughout Occurrences 1%

As the time approaches, and all are in readiness with pen in hand, there is a universal buzz throughout the room.

to Occurrences 1%

But if they think at all, 'tis sure no higher Than matter, put in motion, may aspire: Souls that can scarce ferment their mass of clay; So drossy, so divisible are they, As would but serve pure bodies for allay: 320 Such souls as shards produce, such beetle things As only buzz to heaven with evening wings; Strike in the dark, offending but by chance, Such are the blindfold blows of ignorance.

within Occurrences 1%

" At the moment I address him, Mr. Musgrave is battling angrily with an angrier wasp, but no sooner has he heard my question than he ceases his warfare, and allows it to buzz within half an inch of his nose, as he turns his hazel eyes, full of astonished inquiry, upon me.

Which preposition to use with  buzzed