Which preposition to use with crooned

to Occurrences 16%

"Sis' Johnnie is comin' back; she sure is comin' back soon," Laurella was crooning to her baby.

in Occurrences 11%

There is another class of songs, half of the sea, half of the shore, which the fishermen and coasters croon in their lonely watches.

over Occurrences 11%

"Poverino!" said the gondolier softly, while Marina crooned over him an Ave Maria, and the gondola glided noiselessly to its cadence.

of Occurrences 5%

A quaint recitative of his own, which he generally contrived to vary each night, was the song, a loving croon of sleep and rest.

by Occurrences 3%

A foolish rustic thing the shepherd wives In our Abruzzi croon by winter fires, Of their husbands in the plains.

into Occurrences 1%

But in the mean time we shall commit the error of supposing that History does nothing but repeat itself, fretfully crooning into the "dull ear" of age a twice-told tale, if we do not allow for the modifications amid which the primitive impulses find themselves at work.

from Occurrences 1%

So also croon from (Fr.)

above Occurrences 1%

She'd jes' croon above de babies, she'd jes' sing when t'ings went wrong, An' no matter what de trouble, she would meet it wid a song; She jes' prayed huh way to heaben, findin' comfort in de rod; She jes' "stole away to Jesus," she jes' sung huh way to God!

among Occurrences 1%

I SUFFER THE HEATHEN'S RAGE As I stumbled through the moonlit forest I heard Ringan's tunes ever crooning among the trees.

behind Occurrences 1%

The sea was crooning behind him over the half-buried rocks.

about Occurrences 1%

The feed-pump eccentric-shaft of this engine, which was very poor and flaky, suddenly gave out about five in the afternoon, and I had to stop in a hurry, and that sweet invisible mechanism which had crooned and crooned about my ears in the air, and followed me whithersoever

Which preposition to use with  crooned