Which preposition to use with castles

of Occurrences 1091%

She verbally replied to it through Fatima; and stated, in her justification, that she was hurried from Benares to a town on the river, whence she was rapidly transported to the castle of Omrah, who had not long before lost his wife, and who was more than four times her age.

in Occurrences 322%

"How long I could have withstood the corrosive effects of my hopeless passion, irritated as it was by my being in the vicinity of its objectby hearing perpetually of her beauty, and sometimes catching a glimpse of it,I know not; but the Omrah, after a few months spent with his father-in-law, returned with his bride to his castle in the country.

on Occurrences 107%

Sometimes the parish church touches the castle on one side, and there is a private entrance for the seigneurs.

at Occurrences 97%

That gap is held by Arundel; the Castle at Amberley was a palace of the Bishop of Chichester, granted to the Bishop of Selsey long before the Conquest; it was only castellated in the fourteenth century.

to Occurrences 75%

Miss Howden was an Infants' Mistress in one of the slums, and knew well the needs of little children in that wide street, once decked with lordly mansions, which leads from the Castle to Holyrood Palace.

with Occurrences 64%

Perhaps some one of the multitude excites special attention, some gigantic castle with turret and battlement, or some Gothic cathedral more abundantly spired than Milan's.

for Occurrences 44%

As no one had lived at the castle for so long, she had decided to put all the beautiful things safely away, in order to keep them from ruin and possible thieves.

by Occurrences 32%

In order to obtain a good view of the entrance and the towers that guard it, it is preferable to approach the castle by the Rue Henri IV.

as Occurrences 25%

A room had been fitted up in the castle as a little chapel.

from Occurrences 24%

From the wadi rises a hill on which is Kustul, a village covering the site of an old Roman castle from which, doubtless, its name is derived.

near Occurrences 19%

So he shipped Allen off to England, where that eccentric warrior was confined in Pendennis Castle near Falmouth in Cornwall.

of Occurrences 17%

We have passed between the Castles of the two Continents, guarding the mouth of the Dardanelles, and are now entering the Grecian Sea.

before Occurrences 11%

Rescue my castle before the hot day Brightens to blue from its silvery gray.

against Occurrences 8%

The earls, after this stratagem, held the castle against the King, who speedily marched to Lincoln.

during Occurrences 8%

He had distinguished himself on the Royalist side in the Civil War, and had paid the penalty for his loyalty by an imprisonment in Windsor Castle during the Commonwealth.

without Occurrences 8%

No argument[d] could induce the houses to consent that the king should name to the government of the forts and castles without their previous approbation of the persons to be appointed; and he demurred to their proposal that both armies should be disbanded, until he knew on what conditions he was to return to his capital.

than Occurrences 7%

My father (that bled out his life 'neath my lord's supper table) knew divers secret ways within the thickness of these wallsso do I know more of Pertolepe's castle than doth Pertolepe himself.

in Occurrences 7%

Burthens like these vile earthly buildings bear, No tribute's laid on Castles in the Air' Churchill's Poems, Night, ed. 1766, i. 89.

under Occurrences 7%

"You see, up in the castle under a big tree sits the sick Castle-Steward.

into Occurrences 7%

Henry threw him into prison, but as soon as he had won the smaller kings of the south separately to make submission to him, and given the chief castles into the hands of his own officers, he conciliated the knights by releasing Fitz-Stephen.

like Occurrences 7%

The latter looked innocently up at the gray towers, remarking that anybody who owned a castle like that would simply be the happiest man in the world.

after Occurrences 6%

Baron Bruno, never once sending word, had arrived in the castle after an absence of eight years and had brought with him a companion by the name of Mr. Demetrius.

among Occurrences 4%

In travelling through Georgia, we found a few villages composed of huts, and some castles among the mountains, but these were rare and distant.

out Occurrences 3%

Now you are to know that he who had thus taken Sir Lionel and those three knights prisoner was one Sir Turquine, a very cruel, haughty knight, who had a great and strong castle out beyond the mouth of that valley in which these knights took combat as aforetold.

over Occurrences 3%

He had stopped walking and was looking across the flowering meadows towards the castle over which rosy clouds were floating on the bright evening sky.

Which preposition to use with  castles