Which preposition to use with ditch

in Occurrences 34%

We went at a good clip and nearly got ditched in a couple of new shell holes.

on Occurrences 21%

The rest went into the ditch on top of the dead horses and derelict carts.

at Occurrences 18%

Though all attempts to cross the ditch at the gate of St. Romanus were long baffled by the Greeks, and the mining operations at Blachern were discovered and defeated by Johann Grant, still the superior number and indefatigable perseverance of the Ottomans at last filled up the ditch, and the fire of their guns ruined the walls.

with Occurrences 17%

A boy hardly fifteen years old was dragged out of a wet ditch with a gun in his hand.

of Occurrences 17%

ORIGIN OF CELERY.In the marshes and ditches of this country there is to be found a very common plant, known by the name of Smallage.

for Occurrences 12%

"I warrant," said Eurymachus again, "he could not raise a fence or dig a ditch for his livelihood, if a man would hire him to work in a garden.

to Occurrences 9%

Then I got Harley to show me the site of his sortie, and pretty grisly the place looked, but unfortunately the photograph I took, showing the mine lying open like a ditch to the foot of the tower, was a "wrong un."

by Occurrences 8%

He'd lay out his little garden by geometry, and dig his ditches by algebra.

between Occurrences 7%

Linforth found himself upon a balcony overhanging a great ditch between the Dargah and Taragarh Hill.

into Occurrences 6%

The rain falling on the freshly dried herbs and leaves, and filling the pools and ditches into which they have dropped thus clean and rigid, will soon convert them into tea,green, black, brown, and yellow teas, of all degrees of strength, enough to set all Nature a-gossiping.

near Occurrences 5%

" There was a ditch near where the saplings grew and usually there were a couple of boards across it.

around Occurrences 5%

In the dry season, the numerous canals of the suburbs are so many stagnant drains, and at each ebb of the tide the ditches around the town exhibit a similar spectacle.

beyond Occurrences 4%

The reason became equally apparent when, looking towards the north, where no wall bounded them, I sawover a gate in the middle of a dense hedge of flowering shrubs, which, with a ditch beyond it, formed the limit of the park in that directionan extensive farm divided by the usual ditches into some twenty-five or thirty distinct fields, and more than a square mile in extent.

along Occurrences 3%

The body was deposited in Westminster Abbey; but the posthumous honor was in reserve for it, of being torn from the grave after the Restoration, and flung into a ditch along with the remains of three or four other republican leaders.

across Occurrences 3%

Another hour was over; there were but two miles before him to the Gap: but the old mare panted and balked at every ditch across the road.

outside Occurrences 3%

" I had to laugh, because that's always the one thing that most campers who aren't used to it forget aboutI mean digging a drain ditch outside their tent.

from Occurrences 3%

Thus literally inch by inch the files stole forward, sheltered in a narrow ditch from the gusts of German machine-gun fire that constantly swept the terrain.

without Occurrences 2%

A yard she had with pales enclosed about, Some high, some low, and a dry ditch without.

after Occurrences 2%

Now, because Sequoia trunks are never wholly consumed in one forest fire, and those fires recur only at considerable intervals, and because Sequoia ditches after being cleared are often left unplanted for centuries, it becomes evident that the trunk remnant in question may probably have lain a thousand years or more.

alongside Occurrences 2%

I told him that every dark night he came from Sudbury I thought of the deep ditch alongside the road, and wished his horses hadn't blinders on.

among Occurrences 2%

The Kureisch discharged a shower of arrows over the ditch among the entrenched Muslim and then retired a little from their first position, so as to encamp not far from the city and try to starve it into surrender.

as Occurrences 2%

I have seen genii in the spiritual world, who were in a state of preparation for hell, approaching to an angel while he was being entertained by his consort; and at a distance, as they approached, they became like furies, and sought out caverns and ditches as asylums, into which they cast themselves.

before Occurrences 2%

For it is evident that to find the whole time, we must add to the 380 years the time that the vanished portion of the trunk lay in the ditch before being burned out of the way, plus the time that passed before the seed from which the monumental fir sprang fell into the prepared soil and took root.

beside Occurrences 2%

Two years ago last May, on the morning of Thursday, the twenty-second, I awoke to find myself lying in a ditch beside a road.

during Occurrences 2%

It has a canal, but the canal is a mud-puddle during one half the day and an empty ditch during the other.

Which preposition to use with  ditch