Which preposition to use with crossings

of Occurrences 183%

As I lay there in the silence and desolation, the restless, tossing anguish of fever, those dogs gathered together in State at the crossing of Eagle, just above my boarding-house, and barked!

in Occurrences 26%

It is astonishing how much time is wasted and how much letter-writing is necessitated by the simplest change in a road or railway crossing in France.

at Occurrences 15%

It prevented the crossing at certain points on its front while, on either flank, the Germans, who had gained a footing, pressed forward.

from Occurrences 7%

The seamen are not apprenticed, or as it is usually called, matriculated, but their frequent crossing from island to island, their familiarity with regional tempests, voyages to various parts of America, and the occupation of fishing followed by the inhabitants of the coast, serve to train up a large body of dexterous and able mariners who at all times can be had, without any compulsion, to complete the crews.

on Occurrences 6%

Allen then sent eighty men down to Skenesborough (now Whitehall) at the southern end of the lake, to take the tiny post there and bring back boats for the crossing on the 10th of May.

for Occurrences 6%

Nature has directed this crossing for the best, since the closer the mare breeds after the jack the better the mule.

by Occurrences 5%

About the opening of winter, when one looks for sudden big storms, he had attempted a crossing by the nearest path, beginning the ascent at noon.

to Occurrences 5%

The crossing to Asia was attended with no difficulties, for Prusias king of Bithynia was in alliance with Macedonia.

with Occurrences 3%

At Mustapha Pasha, twenty miles in front of Adrianople, was a solid old stone bridge over the Maritza, whose floods in the winter rains would be a nightmare to engineers who had to maintain a crossing with pontoons.

into Occurrences 3%

So you see how it was that person, who ever he was, could have gone up Main Street or down Main Street, or over the stone crossing into Barrel Alley.

over Occurrences 2%

Consequently, Colonel Russell's function was to preside over meetings, lead the train, locate camping ground, select crossings over fordable streams, and direct the construction of rafts and other expedients for transportation over deep waters.

near Occurrences 2%

PlaceA muddy crossing near a parish school.

than Occurrences 2%

Except the two years that I came ashore for the King Philip business, when every man that could carry a gun was needed on the border, I've never been three casts of a biscuit from salt water, and I tell you that I never knew a better crossing than the one we have just made.

before Occurrences 2%

We are so strongly alike that" "Mistress Betty,"Yorke was at her side again,"I left you to bestow a few shillings on yonder fellow who danced so well, but I could not find him, and Mistress Kitty Cruger tells me he left at once for Breucklen Heights, whence he came, as there is a party crossing before daybreak.

between Occurrences 1%

The medicine-man told me, always with a quaking relish at this point, that while they, grown bold by success, were still in the tree, they sighted a Paiute hunting party crossing between them and their own land.

out Occurrences 1%

We have, therefore, here, upon the very pages of this folio, evidence that alterations in pencil not only might have been, but were, made upon it at an early period, even in regard to so very slight a matter as the crossing out of fourteen lines; and that these pencilled lines served as a guide for the subsequent permanent erasure in ink.

as Occurrences 1%

The latest and most familiar narrative represents the crossing as a superlative miracle and the waters of the rushing river as piled up like a wall on either side.

Which preposition to use with  crossings