Which preposition to use with elms

of Occurrences 19%

One lovely evening in June, he came upon Agnes, who was now eight years old, lying under the largest elm of a clump of great elms and Scotch firs at the bottom of the garden.

in Occurrences 19%

'Mother,' said a little child of four or five years of age, one evening when the summer air was warm, and the skies were bright above, as she sat beside her mother, on a bench beneath the spreading branches of the tall old elms in front of the house; 'mother, what makes the stars come out, only after the dark has come down, and why don't the moon go up into the sky like the sun in the day time?'

on Occurrences 14%

I remember such a path, the access to which is from Lovers' Grove, a range of tall old oaks and elms on a high hill-top, whence there is a view of Warwick Castle, and a wide extent of landscape, beautiful, though bedimmed with English mist.

to Occurrences 6%

But no one can pass down that great avenue of elms to the glorious north porch, a master-work of the thirteenth century, without rejoicing that when all is said the church was saved to us.

for Occurrences 6%

Let us have Willows for spring, Elms for summer, Maples and Walnuts and Tupeloes for autumn, Evergreens for winter, and Oaks for all seasons.

with Occurrences 4%

Will you walk out and look at those elms with me after breakfast?I said to the schoolmistress.

before Occurrences 3%

The rooks cawed lazily in the elms before the church as if they knew it were Sunday morning and a day of rest.

by Occurrences 3%

The one with the fir trees and the big elm by the gate.

over Occurrences 2%

The great elm over the Pitkin farm-house had been stripped of its golden glory, and now rose against the yellow evening sky, with its infinite delicacies of net work and tracery, in their way quite as beautiful as the full pomp of summer foliage.

at Occurrences 2%

There is a noble old wreck of an elm at Hatfield, which used to spread its claws out over a circumference of thirty-five feet or more before they covered the foot of its bole up with earth.

along Occurrences 1%

I have made a Walk of Elms along the River Side, and intend to sow all the Place about it with Cowslips, which I hope you will like as well as that I have heard you talk of by your Father's House in the Country.

in Occurrences 1%

It has existed as an estate since the time of the early Saxon kings, and the record of the sale of Barn Elms in the time of King Athelstane is still extant.

above Occurrences 1%

The sun surged through the kitchen door and east window, a returned oriole swung and fluted on the elm above the gable.

of Occurrences 1%

Of course, there is not a picture-gallery in the country which would be worth so much to us as is the western view at sunset under the Elms of our main street.

along Occurrences 1%

Gay, sprightly land of mirth and social ease, Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please, How often have I led thy sportive choir, With tuneless pipe, beside the murmuring Loire, Where shading elms along the margin grew, And freshened from the wave the zephyr flew!

around Occurrences 1%

At length, on the third day, at evening, they came to a village on the green with elms around it, and the people there all took off their hats, and made curtsies to my Lord Viscount, who bowed to them all languidly; and there was one portly person that wore a cassock and a broad-leafed hat, who bowed lower than anyone, and with this one both my lord and Mr. Holt had a few words.

behind Occurrences 1%

Perhaps the row of pollard elms behind his birth-place.

beyond Occurrences 1%

Outside, in the high elms beyond the level, well-kept lawn, with its grey old sundial, the homecoming rooks were cawing prior to settling down for the night.

down Occurrences 1%

And I often smile at my consciousness that certain conservative prepossessions have mingled themselves for me with the influences of our midland scenery, from the tops of the elms down to the buttercups and the little wayside vetches.

from Occurrences 1%

Unhappily, the subject was not easy to find, though we marched through most of the streets; but having visited the ancient churchwith its chime of bells, like many others in Spain, arranged on a wheelwe found a spot by the side of a huge elm from which there was a good view of the sacred edifice.

like Occurrences 1%

The day was grimy with clouds; mist had risen, and it hung out of the branches of the elms like a veil of white gauze.

outside Occurrences 1%

Later in the afternoon Teddy made his way to the old elm outside the Hare and Hounds, where several of the men were resting on the wooden benches, some with pots of beer, and round whom some of the admiring villagers had made a little circle.

through Occurrences 1%

It was very desolate and lonely upstairs that day, for Richard was busy in town, and the wind swept against the windows with a mournful, moaning sound, which made Ethelyn think of dear old Chicopee, and the lofty elms through whose swaying branches the same October wind was probably sighing on this autumnal day.

Which preposition to use with  elms