Which preposition to use with buzzing

of Occurrences 118%

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

of Occurrences 46%

And his eyes opened, and he heard the booming of the sea, and the buzzing of the flies, and felt the heat of the sun, and saw that the sugar he had dropped into his sangaree had not yet reached the bottom of the tumbler.

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."

in Occurrences 13%

About this time, the buzzing in the corner ceased; telling me that the clock had run down.

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.

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.

behind Occurrences 2%

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

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.

past Occurrences 2%

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

on Occurrences 1%

"You hear me, Katie?" "Oh yesyeswhat is it?" "I want to tell you" It was swallowed up in a buzzing on the line.

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.

among Occurrences 1%

There was any amount of talking and buzzing among the crowd.

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.

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.

Which preposition to use with  buzzing