Which preposition to use with crooning
"Sis' Johnnie is comin' back; she sure is comin' back soon," Laurella was crooning to her baby.
There is another class of songs, half of the sea, half of the shore, which the fishermen and coasters croon in their lonely watches.
"Poverino!" said the gondolier softly, while Marina crooned over him an Ave Maria, and the gondola glided noiselessly to its cadence.
It was long after midnight now, and if one listened carefully he could catch the customary noises of the woods at such a time, from the soft crooning of the breeze as it sighed through the pine tops, to the occasional note of some night-bird calling to its mate, or the plaintive voice of a hungry young coon waiting impatiently the return of its foraging mother.
A quaint recitative of his own, which he generally contrived to vary each night, was the song, a loving croon of sleep and rest.
A foolish rustic thing the shepherd wives In our Abruzzi croon by winter fires, Of their husbands in the plains.
The sea was crooning behind him over the half-buried rocks.
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.
So also croon from (Fr.)
I SUFFER THE HEATHEN'S RAGE As I stumbled through the moonlit forest I heard Ringan's tunes ever crooning among the trees.
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!
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