Which preposition to use with dwellings

of Occurrences 341%

He then went to the dwelling of the Fair, when a big dog attacked him "on purpose," and lacerated his trousers.

in Occurrences 113%

But my pen is now about to depict the final ending to which love was guided, and, before I do so, I would appeal to your pity and to those soft sentiments which make their dwelling in your tender breasts, and incline your thoughts to a like termination.

on Occurrences 58%

On the left I saw a stone dovecot and a cluster of trees about a gateway; so, knowing how few and remote were the dwellings on the moorland, I judged it wiser to seek guidance before I strayed too far.

for Occurrences 35%

Horace returned to assist father in hauling logs, which were being used in building a dwelling for the family who had moved over from Missouri.

with Occurrences 24%

O that he would come, And in my poor dwelling with me be at home!

at Occurrences 10%

"The damp, unventilated, and undrained huts, in some parts of the camp, produced consequences similar to those in cellar-dwellings at home,"that is, typhus and typhoid diseases.

to Occurrences 7%

Two of them, the comparison of the light in Grendel's dwelling to the beams of the sun, and of a vessel to a flying bird, have been given in the original Anglo-Saxon on pages 16, 17.

as Occurrences 6%

Occasionally one finds its way into a house in quest of frogs, lizards, musk-rats, or some other of the numerous malefactors that use our dwellings as cities of refuge from the avenger, and it is discovered by the Hamal behind a cupboard, or under a carpet.

within Occurrences 5%

It is no marvel if the acquaintance of his wilder times know him not, for he is quite another from himself; and if his mind could have had any intermission of dwelling within his breast, it could not have known this was the lodging.

by Occurrences 5%

The spurs fall in perpendicular cliffs of some 20 feet in height, and in these are traces of numerous caves similar to those already spoken of, and some of which are still used as dwellings by the Balti people, who come to take service as porters between Dir and Chitral.

under Occurrences 5%

No burrower is so unwise as not to have several exits from his dwelling under protecting shrubs.

near Occurrences 4%

'T is said by those long dwelling near his door, That hundreds have been storm-saved by his arm; That never was he known to sleep, or lag In-doors, when danger swept the seas.

between Occurrences 4%

The Beni Aamir, a branch of the great Hawazin tribe dwelling between the Beni Asad and the Beni Lahyan, were friendly towards Medina, and sent Mahomet gifts as a guarantee.

like Occurrences 4%

This "child garden" has a special interest from the fact that it was carried on actually in a block of workmen's dwellings like The Children's Houses of a later date.

without Occurrences 3%

If a man took a fancy to a girl, he merely went to her home or tent, caught her by the hair or anything else which offered a hold, and dragged her off to his dwelling without further ado.

from Occurrences 3%

One would do a great deal to preserve his paternal dwelling from pillage, and his father's grey hairs from violence.

into Occurrences 3%

Glorying in the risk incurred of proscription and imprisonment, they turned their dwelling into a conventicle.

during Occurrences 2%

Without it, indeed, it would not have been possible for the people to quit their dwelling during three entire days.

than Occurrences 2%

Their huts are more substantially constructed and more useful as dwellings than any to the southward, and will contain eight or ten persons; while those to the southward are seldom large enough to hold three; they are arched over and form a dome with the opening on the land side; so that they are screened from the cold sea-winds, which, unless they blow in the character of the sea-breeze, are generally accompanied by rain.

before Occurrences 2%

But there was nothing to warrant misgivings in the aspect of the dwelling before which the car presently drew up.

around Occurrences 2%

There was a rude drawbridge across the moat, and the dwellings around the fort were temporary hovels composed of straw; so suspicious were the occupants of our intentions that they would not allow us access to the interior of the fort.

amongst Occurrences 2%

Not that it is to be believed that every small country parish should be altogether hopeless as to the next life, unless they have a HOOKER, a CHILLINGWORTH, a HAMMOND, or a SANDERSON dwelling amongst them: but it is requisite, and might be brought about, that somebody there should be, to whom the people have reason to attend, and to be directed and guided by him.

among Occurrences 2%

" As they kept along the mountain on the south, and went west for three hundred paces, they found a dwelling among the rocks, named the Pippala cave, in which Buddha regularly sat in meditation after taking his mid-day meal.

along Occurrences 1%

so reportand I dare any one to correct me!that this child"squeezing Virginia's hand"had taken refuge at some dwelling along the road, and that this morningnot later than this morningas Jacob drove along into Waterloo he overtook Virginia walking into town where she was going to seek a position of some kind.

beside Occurrences 1%

Let Kallikles in his dwelling beside Acheron find in my tongue a minstrel of his praise, for that at the games of the deep-voiced wielder of the trident his brows were green with parsley of Corinth; of him, boy, did Euphänes, thy aged grandsire, rejoice erewhile to sing.

Which preposition to use with  dwellings