Which preposition to use with dived

into Occurrences 158%

And you dove into the small boat, trying to reach the water.

for Occurrences 62%

Each made a dive for a paper and each face wore an expression of genuine delight.

under Occurrences 26%

He was just by the edge of the rock, almost within reach of my landing net, when, with a last desperate effort to escape, he plunged towards the bottom, made a dive under the rock, the line came against its edge, slipped gratingly for a moment, snapped, and the fish was gone.

in Occurrences 23%

With an exclamation of wrath Fletcher made a dive in the direction of the offender, and in a moment the whole gathering was in a state of confusion.

through Occurrences 17%

As he switched up the lights it bounded to its feet and dived through the portières with such celerity that he saw little more of it than coat-tails level on the wind.

at Occurrences 16%

all three dived at me like a rock and bullets flew by me, cutting my plane, so I pulled up at them, fired, swerved so my gunner could let them have it also and then saw the iron cross flash by, so I knew it was the Huns.

to Occurrences 16%

But during the winter, when the stream-banks are embossed in snow, and the streams themselves are chilled nearly to the freezing-point, so that the snow falling into them in stormy weather is not wholly dissolved, but forms a thin, blue sludge, thus rendering the current opaquethen he seeks the deeper portions of the main rivers, where he may dive to clear water beneath the sludge.

from Occurrences 11%

Even when they dived from the spring-board they had a certain kind of a way of jumping, they called it the tiger spring, and nobody could get the hang of it.

after Occurrences 8%

Frank dived after him quickly.

like Occurrences 8%

Finally they dived like rabbits into the forecastle hatch.

with Occurrences 7%

How splendid! He struck out with his legs; he struck out with his arms; he dived with his whole body.

out Occurrences 7%

He makes you dive out of the Strand to see a beautiful doorway, and out of Fleet Street to admire the Henry room.

of Occurrences 6%

[Footnote 9: Korah, Kore, or Kárun, the Dives of his age, was an alchemist.

Below Occurrences 6%

" How refreshing to dive Below the Billow.

among Occurrences 6%

and with a jerk of one long paddle he dives among the weeds.

beneath Occurrences 5%

-So still the Nymphs emerging lift in air 110 Their snow-white shoulders and their azure hair; Sail with sweet grace the dimpling streams along, Listening the Shepherd's or the Miner's song; But, when afar they view the giant-cave, On timorous fins they circle on the wave, 115 With streaming eyes and throbbing hearts recoil, Plunge their fair forms, and dive beneath the soil.

between Occurrences 2%

Driven from the brow they settle on the neck, shaken from the neck they dive between the legs, and but for that far-reaching whisk at the end of the tail, they would found a permanent colony on the flanks and defy ejection, like the raiders of Vatersay.

on Occurrences 2%

Sett'st her dear life against thy moonstruck thought, And slay'st thy dove on Folly's altar-steps.

over Occurrences 2%

23. to dive over head and ears in a cold river, &c. 5613.

past Occurrences 2%

The bird dived past his sight into the fathomless abyss of the ocean.

down Occurrences 1%

" Tom, grinning, made a lightning-like selection of assistants, and dove down the steep and narrow stairway from the kitchen.

beyond Occurrences 1%

And then the ship went sailing, A-sailing o'er the sea; She dived beyond the setting sun, But never back came she,

as Occurrences 1%

Then the pressure on him from without is as water upon the diver; and sooner or later he grows fatigued and comes to the surface to breathe; he is as a flying-fish pursued by sharks below and cruel birds above; and he neither dives as deep nor flies as high as his freer and stronger ancestry.

around Occurrences 1%

All this time Roy had kept the Golden Butterfly hovering above the liner, from time to time taking swoops and dives around it like some monstrous sea gull.

toward Occurrences 1%

Just as he was within hailing distance and about to shout, the figure made a quick dive toward the water and sprang back again with a fish between his paws, and Ted saw that it was a huge bear.

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