Which preposition to use with cellar

of Occurrences 86%

Therefore to give his wisdom scope, the doctor some time since announced the cellar of the building to be a hospital for dogs.

in Occurrences 34%

From the cellar in Holborn a move was made to a better room, costing half a crown a week; and then, within little more than a year from the commencement, a house and shop were taken at a rent of £26 a year.

to Occurrences 34%

Taking the kitchen lamp down from its hook, I made my way from cellar to cellar, and room to room; through pantry and coal-holealong passages, and into the hundred-and-one little blind alleys and hidden nooks that form the basement of the old house.

with Occurrences 30%

"A damp, gloomy old cellar with tunnels and storerooms in queer corners andBut you were going to tell us about the attic.

for Occurrences 25%

My father went into the cellar for some purpose in the evening, after his return from meeting, and discovered the trout.

at Occurrences 14%

The children of its schools, drilled to run down to the cellars at the first alarm as our children are drilled to empty a school on a warning of a Zeppelin raid, are the gayest and most spirited creatures, as I saw them at their games and action songs; unless indeed it be the children of the réfugiés, in whose faces sometimes one seems to see the reflection of scenes that no child ought to have witnessed and not even a child can forget.

under Occurrences 10%

The lunarians do not, as Butler has it "When the sun shines hot at noon, Inhabit cellars under ground, Of eight miles deep and eighty round.

by Occurrences 9%

They fired into the cellars by the air-holes.

from Occurrences 5%

The leather was still warm, and Roy realized that it must have been dropped into the cellar from the bearded man's pocket when he leaned over to see if Roy had reached the bottom of the ladder.

beneath Occurrences 4%

There were spacious cellars beneath the whole of this building.

like Occurrences 3%

On the other hand, as I argued with myself there was really an exceedingly small chance of a shell exploding on the particular spot where I happened to be standing, and if it didwell, it seemed more dignified, somehow, to be killed in the open than to be crushed to death in a cellar like a cornered rat.

into Occurrences 3%

It proceeded from the cellar into which he had locked the bear.

after Occurrences 2%

His plan was nothing more than to dress in citizen's clothes, enter the cellar after night and carry away some, if not all, of the kegs of apple jack.

on Occurrences 2%

You will suppose that her son Hugh will be shut up in the cellar on bread and water, or sent off to sea in disgrace.

underneath Occurrences 2%

" The old custom of examining the cellars underneath the House of Lords, some hours before her Majesty's arrival, is still observed.

against Occurrences 1%

It had made neat double-length dug-outs where the wounded could be laid in during their passage down the mountain side; well-tended occasional latrines properly limed; dug-outs for sleeping and eating; overhead protections and tool-sheds where needed, and, as one came nearer the working face, very clever cellars against trench-sweepers.

out Occurrences 1%

This verbal ducking into the cellar out of the path of her storm stirred up a tempest.

over Occurrences 1%

In the papers you have seen many pictures of the shattered roofs and the streets piled high with fallen walls and lined with gaping cellars over which once houses stood.

past Occurrences 1%

" A soldier was on guard with bayonet fixed inside that little room, which had passageway to the cellar past the table, among straw beds.

behind Occurrences 1%

I then shut the door of the back cellar behind me, so that he might not hear what was going forward, and tossing the candle away I ascended the kitchen stair.

as Occurrences 1%

Light and ventilation are quite as essential to the healthfulness of a cellar as to other rooms of the dwelling.

without Occurrences 1%

And Morny had answered, "Cellars without air or daylight, twenty-four mètres long, eight wide, five high, dripping walls, damp pavements."

during Occurrences 1%

I spent most of my time in the cellar during the fight, and since they've been gone I'm living in terror lest they return.

between Occurrences 1%

"God Bacchus!" cried the Prince, "you will empty my cellars between you, and I shall not have a sober archer for a month.

Which preposition to use with  cellar