Which preposition to use with climbs

to Occurrences 385%

We had not long left Vindar's house, before we saw a short fat man in the suburbs, preparing to climb to the top of a plane tree, on which there was one of the tail feathers of a sort of flamingo.

into Occurrences 246%

I remember (and who that was reared in the country does not) when I was a boy, how I went out in the sunny days of autumn, after the frosts had painted the hillsides, to gather chestnuts; and when the breeze rustled among the branches, how the nuts came rattling down; and how if the winds were still, I climbed into the trees and shook their tops, and how the chestnuts pattered to the ground like a shower of hail.

up Occurrences 221%

I looked intently toward it, and, presently, made out another, and then anotherthree dim shapes that appeared to be climbing up the side of the Pit.

over Occurrences 202%

Once, as I was climbing over the fence with a hatful of apples, this dog, which had started for me, caught me by the seat of the pantaloons, and while I clung to the top of the fence he literally tore them from my legs, but fortunately did not touch my flesh.

on Occurrences 145%

Children were playing about in the alleys and broad, open spaces, and climbing on the fountains when the keepers of the garden were not anywhere

out Occurrences 84%

I only know that on Saturday I was looking over our wall, through an opening there happens to be in the shrubs, and saw you fellows climbing out of the old chap's window; and after you'd gone I noticed something lying in the path, and I hopped over, and picked up this knife.

in Occurrences 56%

There is one rock especially which I had climbed in the rain and fog of early morning.

with Occurrences 51%

Moreover, each one of the flock, while following the guidance of the most experienced, yet climbed with intelligent independence as a perfect individual, capable of separate existence whenever it should wish or be compelled to withdraw from the little clan.

from Occurrences 46%

Sometimes climbing from floor to floor, a still warm supply of them looped over one arm, Mrs. Kaufman, who wore bombazine, but unspotted and with crisp net frills at the throat, and upon whose soft-looking face the years had written their chirography in invisible ink, would sit suddenly, there in the narrow gloom of her halls, head against the balustrade.

through Occurrences 37%

I am on the light cruiser of a famous Commodore, and I have just been creeping and climbing through a submarine.

down Occurrences 34%

And so with a great deal of trouble they climbed down the chimney and peeped out....

for Occurrences 26%

Whereupon I came down from my high stump which I had climbed for a longer view.

of Occurrences 21%

A climb of some twelve or fifteen feet to the balcony: one should be able to make that within two minutes, granted freedom from interruption.

along Occurrences 19%

Gladly I climbed along its dashing border, absorbing its divine music, and bathing from time to time in waftings of irised spray.

by Occurrences 17%

They stoop to rise, to mount higher in coming years, by subtle chemistry, climbing by the sap in the trees, and the sapling's first fruits thus shed, transmuted at last, may adorn its crown, when, in after-years, it has become the monarch of the forest.

About Occurrences 14%

Put up thine arms, and climb About my neck: now, kiss me, lips to lips....

after Occurrences 11%

Why, when a native of one of these island groups sets his heart on a particular loaf of bread up his bread-fruit tree, he doesn't bother to climb after it.

among Occurrences 11%

At the Big Tuolumne Meadows I remained more than a month, sketching, botanizing, and climbing among the surrounding mountains.

above Occurrences 11%

The forests and the glaciers and the snowy fountains of the streams advertise their wealth in a more or less telling manner even in the distance, but nothing is seen of the lakes until we have climbed above them.

like Occurrences 10%

Availing ourselves of the observations made yesterday, we succeeded, after a hard scramble of two hours, in getting through the remaining portion of the range, our horses having learned to climb like goats, or they never would have accomplished the passage.

toward Occurrences 10%

Presently, with an "Ah," of satisfaction, he climbed toward a hand's breadth of platform where grew a patch of purple flowers.

at Occurrences 9%

A hundred feet of broken ledges and insecurely heaped rocks were between it and the earth, and because of the rocks, which might be displaced by the touch of hand or foot, but one man climbed at a time.

aboard Occurrences 8%

What Frank was really concerning himself about more than anything else was how he could stow away the two fellows, once they found a chance to climb aboard the hydroplane; and whether he could get enough impetus from the engine with such an unusual load, to rise from the water, once he elevated his planes.

between Occurrences 5%

So he led off to the left, keeping in the shadow, and climbed between several lines of freight-cars, all empty, and finally came out behind the I.W.W.'s.

towards Occurrences 5%

But the Hill Road, the Broadway, the Worple Road, and the various turnings that climb towards the Ridgeway pleased him.

Which preposition to use with  climbs