Which preposition to use with dyke

of Occurrences 18%

The dykes of Holland when broken down are the deserts of Arabia, in comparison with Mesolonghi."

at Occurrences 4%

His father had made the dyke at a heavy cost but in places the stones and soil had gradually washed away.

in Occurrences 3%

Landlord's bound to keep dyke in order.

by Occurrences 2%

The friendly year; chosen and arr. from the works of Henry Van Dyke by George Sidney Webster.

down Occurrences 1%

Besides, I see the panjandrum who brings the mail coming up the dyke down yonder.

for Occurrences 1%

I don't ask you to mend the dyke for Osborn's sake but yours.

into Occurrences 1%

Beyond this, the low rice-fields, all clothed in their rugged stubble, divided by dykes into monotonous squares, a species of prospect by no means beautiful to the mere lover of the picturesque.

on Occurrences 1%

The reader knows what I mean; he must remember how, when he has sat himself down behind a dyke on a hill-side, he delighted to hear the wind hiss vainly through the crannies at his back; how his body tingled all over with warmth, and it began to dawn upon him, with a sort of slow surprise, that the country was beautiful, the heather purple, and the faraway hills all marbled with sun and shadow.

over Occurrences 1%

The plain fact is, that the sacred river, pure and life-giving, became a detestable mass of rottennessand with it all their streams and pools, and drinking water in vessels of wood and stonefor all, remember, came from the Nile, carried by canals and dykes over the whole land.

to Occurrences 1%

The maimed churchfor the chancel has never been rebuiltlooks across the Dyke to the shattered keep, and so apparent are the results of the cannonading between them that no one requires to be told that the Parliamentary forces mounted their ordnance in the chancel and tower of the church, and it is equally apparent that the Royalists returned the fire hotly.

across Occurrences 1%

A dyke across the mouth, and a steam-pump on it, as in the fens of Norfolk and of Guiana, to throw the land-water over into the sea, would probably expel the evil spirit of malaria at once and for ever.

with Occurrences 1%

Two mornings later George, walking on the dyke with his mother, saw by the aid of his telescope an English steamer near the pier.

along Occurrences 1%

In 1351 the dykes along the Yellow River burst.

behind Occurrences 1%

And not until it had served as a dyke behind which floods of men in the khaki of King George had had time to arm and drill to rush out to oppose the gray-green floods that had swept through helpless Belgium.

beyond Occurrences 1%

I thanked her, clapped on my dripping bonnet, and made for the dykes beyond the garden.

Which preposition to use with  dyke