Which preposition to use with deeper

in Occurrences 495%

Hence the quarter-deck was soon alive with men who were wont to be deep in dreams at that hour.

than Occurrences 277%

Love lies deeper than discord.

of Occurrences 181%

All these men, by whatever name or school they are called, are writers of essays or sermons which appeal to the most spiritual deeps of man.

for Occurrences 138%

The winter had set in airly, and the snow had lain deep for months, and the game of the woods had got pretty well starved out.

into Occurrences 83%

It will always be a marvel to me how in a country where one machine gun in defence could hold up a battalion, we made such rapid progress, and how having got so deep into the range it was possible for us to feed our front.

as Occurrences 71%

It is in that aspect that I shall treat my theme; for, as a philosophical or juristic discussion of the American Constitution, my addresses will be neither as "deep as a well, nor as wide as a church door.

with Occurrences 53%

And again it changed and "Come mariner down in the deep with me" went gently and swiftly abroad on the air.

on Occurrences 26%

The loose snow was already over five feet deep on the meadows, making extended walks impossible without the aid of snow-shoes.

at Occurrences 23%

A bridge and a mill dam having been destroyed during winter the only means of crossing was by a ford three feet deep at the mouth, an uncertain passage because the sand bar over which one could walk shifted after heavy rain when the stream was swollen with flood water.

to Occurrences 16%

But greatest of all events in that eventful day was one which went deeper to my feelings.

by Occurrences 11%

Throwing out his signals for retreat, the Algerine was soon to be seen, at the head of his squadron, standing towards the north, under as much canvas as remained to him after the battle, and urged forward through the deep by the whole strength of his oarsmen.

within Occurrences 10%

The iron of those days when she had laughed at him was deep within him, and this she now divined, and said absently: "I used to think you were pretty nice.

among Occurrences 10%

He too is deep among the prophets, the year-servers,the mob of gentleman annuals.

from Occurrences 9%

Arriving opposite it, we walked out on to the projecting arm of rock, and I must confess to having felt an intolerable sense of terror as I looked down from that dizzy perch into the unknown depths below usinto the deeps from which there rose ever the thunder of the falling water and the shroud of rising spray.

Through Occurrences 5%

Thou sea, who wast to me a prophet deep Through all thy restless waves, and wasting shores, Of silent labour, and eternal change; First teacher of the dense immensity Of ever-stirring life, in thy strange forms Of fish, and shell, and worm, and oozy weed: To me alike thy frenzy and thy sleep Have been a deep and breathless joy: Oh hear!

about Occurrences 5%

The wrinkles were deep about his mouth and eyes.

under Occurrences 4%

And up and down the hill reclined A host of statues old; Such wondrous forms as you might find Deep under ancient mould.

beyond Occurrences 4%

He was deep beyond all belief, was Stork's opinion, delivered with reluctant admiration.

over Occurrences 3%

"The clerk downstairs says the snow is nine feet deep over the mountain trails and the wind would cut an iron beam in two.

near Occurrences 3%

The water, about fifteen feet deep near the made embankment, was alive with the tiny fish, squirming in a mass as they were pursued by larger fish.

around Occurrences 2%

By the way, will some rich man, who was reared in the country in the good old times when boys went barefooted in the summer months, when chapped feet, stone bruises, stubbed toes, and thorns that pierced and festered in their soles were the great ills that 'darkened deepest around human destiny,' solve for me a problem of the human mind?

amongst Occurrences 2%

But when she had once begun she did not know how to leave off, and kept going deeper and deeper amongst the trees looking for some still more beautiful flower.

beneath Occurrences 2%

Homer, with a like figure, though expressed in the positive degree, makes Jupiter threaten any rebel god, that he shall be thrown down from Olympus, to suffer the burning pains of the Tartarean gulf; not in the centre, but, "As deep beneath th' infernal centre hurl'd, As from that centre to th' ethereal world.

between Occurrences 2%

The physical geography of France was in those days different from what it is nowthe river Somme, for instance, having cut its bed a hundred feet deeper between that time and this; and, it is probable, that the climate was more like that of Canada or Siberia, than that of Western Europe.

across Occurrences 2%

An idle voice the sabbath region fills Of Deep that calls to Deep across the hills, 355 And with that voice accords the soothing sound [90] Of drowsy bells, for ever tinkling round; Faint wail of eagle melting into blue Beneath the cliffs, and pine-woods' steady sugh; [W] The solitary heifer's deepened low; 360 Or rumbling, heard remote, of falling snow.

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