Which preposition to use with chuckling

to Occurrences 61%

There is no such thing as 'Sulphate of Bilgerius,' or 'Silica Bilgica,' or anything like them", and then the old fellow chuckled to himself over my supposed ignorance.

at Occurrences 55%

"I ain't much of a man myself"there were dark rumors about Milligan's past and the crowd chuckled at this

over Occurrences 48%

Now it was that I expected the old man would return to my side and chuckle over our good fortune; but he remained at the edge of the thicket while I might have counted twenty, and then a second member of the garrison had clambered up beside the first.

with Occurrences 37%

The cowboys began whispering among themselves and chuckling with glee, as if they were enjoying some huge joke.

of Occurrences 32%

I asked, and Jacob replied, with what sounded very like a chuckle of satisfaction: "Who else, save the Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley?"

in Occurrences 27%

Pulz chuckled in his throat.

from Occurrences 13%

The action drew a chuckle from the crowd.

of Occurrences 5%

It is when the young go out of the nest on their first foraging that the parents, full of a crass and simple pride, make their indescribable chucklings of gobbling, gluttonous delight.

like Occurrences 5%

A good many little cubs, as well as a few ole Bears, have been gobbled up by your confounded efforts at runnin' up gold, while you grin and chuckle like the laffin' hyena, when ransackin' Navy Yards and whisky distilleries.

on Occurrences 5%

Frank chuckled on hearing this.

behind Occurrences 4%

" A light chuckle behind you, as the last words are spoken, brings you sharp round on your heels; and you discern huddled in the semi-darkness of the corner what appears in the miserable light of the cocoanut oil lamp to be a Goanese boy.

as Occurrences 3%

What defeat will mean?" "Oh," Deacon shrugged; "of course," he went on a bit carelessly, "we want to see Baliol on top as often" He stopped, then broke into a chuckle as the stroke of the gentlemen's eight suddenly produced from the folds of his sweater a bottle from which he drank with dramatic unction while his fellow-oarsmen clamoured to share the libation and the coxswain abused them all roundly.

under Occurrences 2%

"Two," said the Political Officer promptly, and he chuckled under his grey moustache.

through Occurrences 2%

New York, murmuring and chuckling through the vast galleries of the Garden, applauded the little man's flying coat-tails.

beyond Occurrences 1%

You don't suppose that men are going to turn their dying thoughts to any such screaming, kicking harridans as them suffragettes over there in England, do you?" Kate heard a chuckle beyond the doorthe disrespectful chuckle, as she took it, of the master of the house.

than Occurrences 1%

" He laughed a choked laugh, more like a chuckle than like a laugh.

until Occurrences 1%

He continued chuckling until the man on duty by the door announced to the "assembled lords and princes" that the muezzin summoned them to prayer.

up Occurrences 1%

Being tired and hungry, he pictured wistfully a cabin there, and a light in the window when he went chuckling up the long mesa in the dark, and the widow inside with hot coffee and supper waiting for him.

for Occurrences 1%

" He pulled himself away and Captain Plum could hear his queer chuckling for some time after.

into Occurrences 1%

He sat down beside me and chuckled into his beard; and when his neighbour on the right asked what had amused him he turned the question into a bawdy joke.

inside Occurrences 1%

He could not help chuckling inside himself as he thought of what would happen that day, for once a gun-shy dog, always a gun-shy dogthat was his experience.

without Occurrences 1%

Twice he was heard to chuckle without apparent cause; once he strove, but failed, to detain her hand; while the feeble winks which from time to time he bestowed on Mr. Thomasson when her back was towards him were attributed by that gentleman, who should have known the patient, to reflections closely connected with her charms.

down Occurrences 1%

and he reckoned they'd better send de kerridge after him"an innocent remark that made Uncle Carey send a boot after the old butler, who fled chuckling down the stairs, and left Uncle Carey chuckling in his room.

along Occurrences 1%

Bright and tawny, full of fun And storm and sunlight, taking change and chance With laugh on laugh of triumphwhy, you know How they plunge, pause, chafe, chide across the rocks, And chuckle along the rapids, till they breathe And rest and pant and build some bright deep bath For happy boys to dive in, and swim up.

Which preposition to use with  chuckling