Which preposition to use with dames

of Occurrences 87%

Then come, ye courtly dames of France, Oh!

in Occurrences 45%

The most richly dressed dame in the company was a Madame Gannat, the deity of the most charming drawing-room at the capital.

of Occurrences 36%

The dam of Red Lake is an elegantly modeled rib of metamorphic slate, brought into relief because of its superior strength, and because of the greater intensity of the glacial erosion of the rock immediately above it, caused by a steeply inclined tributary glacier, which entered the main trunk with a heavy down-thrust at the head of the lake.

with Occurrences 18%

And as he rode into the town and galloped to the square, Upon the balconies he saw bright dames with faces bare; They stood, they gazed with eyes of love and gestures of delight, For they joyed to see among them so stout, so fair a knight.

in Occurrences 16%

This current will take us over the dam in about seven minutes, I should judge.

at Occurrences 16%

Another kind of meadow or bog occurs on densely timbered hillsides where small perennial streams have been dammed at short intervals by fallen trees.

at Occurrences 15%

Many commend on the other side Spanish ladies, and those Greek dames at this day, for the blackness of their eyes, as Porta doth his Neapolitan young wives.

on Occurrences 8%

And besides, the first Stapleton seems to have blundered somehow into the House of Burgesses, so that entitles me to be a Colonial Dame on my father's side, too, doesn't it, Olaf?" The colonel laughed.

of Occurrences 8%

Such a spirit indeed was his as in a finer type had already expressed itself in Caen in the two noble abbeys, under whose shadow he passed the greater part of his life, the dignified and sternly simple Abbaye-aux-Hommes of William the Conqueror and the graceful, richly ornamented Abbaye-aux-Dames of Queen Matilda.

to Occurrences 8%

At eleven o'clock in the morning from Notre Dame to the Porte Saint Martin there were seventy-seven barricades.

for Occurrences 8%

As long as you two stick to your work, instead of sticking out your colors and sticking your knives into each other, I am very glad to have you for neighbors, but now that you have shown yourselves to be jack-asses instead of vegetables, I would not give an American Beaver dam for the two of you.

on Occurrences 7%

If the Congress directs that a sea-level canal be constructed its direction will, of course, be carried out; otherwise the Canal will be built on substantially the plan for a lock canal outlined in the accompanying papers, such changes being made, of course, as may be found actually necessary, including possibly the change recommended by the Secretary of War as to the site of the dam on the Pacific side.

for Occurrences 7%

At first she found it a hard matter to gain sufficient money for her labour to recompense the dame for her board and lodging, which she insisted upon doing every time she was paid by her employers.

from Occurrences 6%

"We have to get some pictures of Gatun Dam from the lower side.

with Occurrences 5%

The city was sleeping; some customs officials were taking the air; and the water kept pouring through the holes of the dam with a deafening roar.

across Occurrences 5%

This plan contemplated a sea-level canal from Limon Bay to Bohio, where a dam across the valley created a lake extending to Bas Obispo, the difference in level being overcome by two locks; the summit level extended from Bas Obispo to Paraiso, reached by two more locks, and was supplied with water by a feeder from an artificial reservoir created by a dam at Alhajuela, in the upper Chagres Valley.

by Occurrences 4%

The earl rose from his seat at table; he took his dame by the hand, and went straight from the hall.

against Occurrences 4%

And the ecstasy of such moments is like a dam against reality, pressing it back.

as Occurrences 4%

Moreover, sick is he of mind, for that he loveth one, a lady, methinks good and worthyso bring them together, these twain, not above, as saints in heaven, but first as man and woman that shall beget such men as he, such noble dames as she, and make the world a better place therefor.

by Occurrences 3%

In the mean time I am lying around loose on the deck of this magnificent vessel, the Mercy G. Tarbox, of Nantucket, bred by Noah's Ark out of Pilot-boat, dam by Mudscow out of Raging Canawl.

around Occurrences 3%

"Can you see a mob of those merry dames around that drum?

from Occurrences 3%

It could be no settler's wife, but some dame from the coast country who had not the sense to be timid.

to Occurrences 2%

This is still called Bog River, and though above the dam to Mud Lake, where it takes its rise, it is deep and sluggish, yet it is doing it honor overmuch to dignify it by the name of a river.

like Occurrences 2%

I looked up-stream;the ice had gathered in one high barrier mixed with flood-wood and timber, and, bearing above all the uprooted trunk of a huge sycamore, was coming down upon the dam like a battering-ram.

like Occurrences 2%

"Who the hell would marry a dame like that?" he sobbed.

Which preposition to use with  dames