Which preposition to use with erecting

in Occurrences 482%

She had lived through many vicissitudes from the time of her marriage, when she arrived at the Chateau of St. Remy in the Department of Eure-et-Loire (where my husband, her eldest son, was born), passing through triumphal arches erected in honour of the young bride, to the last days when the fortunes of the family were diminished by revolutions and political and business crises in France.

on Occurrences 237%

But though I scrutinized the earth with the greatest care, I could see no signs of anything to show that there had ever been a building erected on the spot, and I grew more puzzled than ever.

to Occurrences 177%

Tommy Atkins had taken up a strong position at the corner of Clerk Road; sentries paced up and down by day and night; machine guns gaped upon the fountain erected to the memory of Le Grand Jacob.

for Occurrences 165%

The hospitals of the army are mostly buildings erected for other purposes, and not fitted for their present use; and the sudden influx of a large military population, with its usual amount of sickness, has often crowded these receptacles of the suffering soldiers.

at Occurrences 150%

Beautiful windows have been erected at Red Cross Hall, Southwark, to commemorate her heroism; but the best memorial is her own expression: "I tried to do my best"for this will live in the hearts of all who read of her self-devotion.

over Occurrences 50%

It is a huge mass of expensive, solemn, and insipid magnificence, erected over the carcasses of as contemptible a family as ever rioted above the earth, or rotted under it.

into Occurrences 48%

The district including the greater part of the forest was afterwards erected into a separate villa called the "villa of Dunkirk."

as Occurrences 48%

This slab is erected as a memento of admiring esteem by the last of his victims.

with Occurrences 40%

Visitors from America were shocked to find no Kindergartens in England, but only large classes of poor little automatons sitting erect with "hands behind" or worse still "hands on heads," and moving only to the word of command.

before Occurrences 24%

" "Yes, but the church in question I have seen; and it was erected before the war of the revolution.

near Occurrences 23%

We found that he had killed two deer, and had the meat from them, cut into thin slips, undergoing the process of "jerking," in a bark smokehouse erected near the tents.

within Occurrences 22%

A great two-storied barrack for the officers of the line had been erected within the stockade, and two magazines of heavy timber.

under Occurrences 18%

And he found her there, erect under the stars, smiling and healthy, a picture of all that is good.

about Occurrences 15%

Also a great wind arose which snapped and scattered the columns erected about the temple of Saturn and the shrine of Fides, and likewise knocked down and shattered the statue of Minerva the Protectress, which Cicero had set up on the Capitol before his exile.

from Occurrences 14%

And since the Dalmatians had been utterly subdued, he erected from the spoils thus gained the porticoes and secured the collection of books called the Octavian, after his sister.

between Occurrences 12%

A telegraph line was erected between Washington and Baltimore.

of Occurrences 12%

All these walls were erected of old by Alexander, for restraining the fierce nations of Scythian shepherds, inhabiting the wilderness, from invading the plains and cities of the southern countries of Persia and Asia Minor.

during Occurrences 11%

In this section of Antwerp, nearly all the old buildings have been torn down and new ones erected during the last few years; and in many other sections the same work of widening streets and erecting new buildings in place of the old, is being done with reckless haste.

against Occurrences 10%

The batteries were then formed; the principal were erected against the gate of Charsias, in the quarter of Blachern, and against the gate of St. Romanus, near the centre of the city wall.

like Occurrences 9%

This great hotel was erected like the great temple described in scripture, practically without hammer or nails.

of Occurrences 9%

So dismal a thing is this commonly judged, that those that at their departure out of this life, are piously and virtuously disposed, do usually reckon the taking care for the relief of the poor Ministers' widows, to be an opportunity of as necessary charity as the mending the highways, and the erecting of hospitals.

by Occurrences 7%

" Robert's gaze followed that of the young Onondaga and was intercepted by the huge figure of Tandakora, the Ojibway, who stood erect by one of the fires, bare save for a breech cloth and moccasins, his body painted in the most hideous designs, of which war paint was possible, his brow lowering.

among Occurrences 7%

Hamyda's daughter then might be compared Unto the morning-star or a tall palm, Alone, erect among the other trees.

out Occurrences 5%

There was a farmhouse, not much knocked about, close to the gun pits and, with the aid of a few tents erected out of sight along a shallow ditch, the whole Battery was very tolerably billeted.

above Occurrences 5%

The roof of the nave, which is finely decorated, depends upon parallel stone columns; but they are rather heavyare massive and numerous enough to support another church, if ever one should be erected above the present edifice.

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