Which preposition to use with cots

in Occurrences 31%

Madame S. was sorry she couldn't set me up a cot in the wash-room, but would be compelled to let me have a double front-room over the bar.

to Occurrences 8%

O! happy girl I may never faithless love, Or fancied splendour, lead thy steps astray; No cares becloud the sunshine of thy day, Nor want e'er urge thee from thy cot to rove.

of Occurrences 8%

While, Memory at my side, I wander here, Starts at the simplest sight th' unbidden tear, A form discover'd at the well-known seat, A spot, that angles at the riv'let's feet, The ray the cot of morning trav'ling nigh, And sail that glides the well-known alders by.

on Occurrences 7%

It was a long time before Joan rose from the cot on which the man had placed her.

with Occurrences 7%

There is a doll's cot with a few dolls of various sizes.

at Occurrences 7%

As he lies in his cot at midnight, he will expound the passing message without striking a light to see it.

from Occurrences 4%

She turned to the steward "Who is in the third cot from here?" "Let me see.

for Occurrences 3%

And so, when Laurella could no longer sit up, they brought another cot for her, and she lay all day babbling childish nonsense, and playing dolls within hand-reach of the sick-bed; while Johnnie with Lissy's help, tended on them both.

over Occurrences 2%

It is remarkable for the large square bell-cot over the W. gable (cp.

into Occurrences 2%

We brought G.'s cot into our room and George

beside Occurrences 2%

Cot, in the sense of a light bed, or cradle, is not much used in England, but is given in Webster's and other dictionaries, with the same Saxon derivation, as the "cot beside the hill" which the poet Rogers sighed for.

under Occurrences 2%

"That's what makes me cot under the hollar!

until Occurrences 2%

The little chauffeur went to bed in the tent and slept soundly upon his cot until daybreak, when the coyotes withdrew and the Canadian got up to make the coffee.

by Occurrences 2%

Now, the house was small where the cradle lay, As it swung in the winds by night and day; For a thicket of underbrush fenced it round, This lone little cot by the great sun browned.

without Occurrences 1%

And over in the corner was an old cot without any sheets or anything and, oh, gee, it looked bad because I've got a dandy bed up in my denall brass and filigree workyou know.

above Occurrences 1%

Note externally (1) bell-cot above chancel (cp. Wrington), (2) groined S. porch with parvise above: internally (1) plain altar-tombs on either side of sanctuary, (2) groined vault to tower, (3) at S.W. end the tomb, with effigy, of one Camel, an abbey official (observe camels on panels below), (4) finely carved stone pulpit, (5) wooden roof of nave, (6) good E. window.

alongside Occurrences 1%

He slept in a small cot alongside Suzette's bed, so it was her job, and not mine, to smack his head.

amid Occurrences 1%

and he turned away across the road, under the windows of the ward where Ailsa was on duty, and so around to his store-room dwelling-place, where he sat down on the cot amid the piles of boxes and drew from his pocket the crumpled sheets of the letter that Ailsa had given him.

near Occurrences 1%

Without waiting for a reply, she carefully deposited her toys on the nurse's cot near her.

opposite Occurrences 1%

"I can't see why I can't remember," she said to Larry as he sat down on the edge of the other cot opposite her.

out Occurrences 1%

It might be just as well to get that cot out of the way and have all the lights going?" "The lights are already going, sir," he said.

up Occurrences 1%

Getting an iron cot up a steep hill is not the easiest thing in the world, and when they had it up at the top of the hill they all sat down on it and panted awhile before they could make it up.

about Occurrences 1%

For ten nights I never lay down in my room; but slept, all I did sleep, lying on a cot about the center of Ward Four, and two cots from the man minus a bone.

Which preposition to use with  cots