Which preposition to use with excursions

to Occurrences 218%

During my third year at that place, in one of my excursions to Philadelphia, and for which I was always inventing pretexts, I became acquainted with one of those faces and forms which, in a youth of twenty, to see, admire, and love, is one and the same thing.

into Occurrences 131%

This was my companions' first excursion into the High Sierra, and as I was almost always alone in my mountaineering, the way that the fresh beauty was reflected in their faces made for me a novel and interesting study.

in Occurrences 96%

They decided to remain several days, at the least, while I concluded to make an excursion in the mean time to the untouched summit of Ritter.

on Occurrences 50%

In Act iii, I, she evidently intended Francisco and his party to be seized as they were returning home by sea, at the end of the act she arranges their sea trip as an excursion on a yacht.

of Occurrences 46%

"I stopped over night at Cape Vincent, last summer, on my way to 'the Thousand Islands,' on a fishing excursion of a week.

from Occurrences 41%

During his first summer on the waters of the Columbia he made Fort Vancouver his headquarters, making excursions from this Hudson Bay post in every direction.

with Occurrences 38%

Dick remarked these excursions with growing impatience, and visited his anger upon Rosa in protests so pungent and woe-begone that she was forced to own to him that she only pretended an interest in the captain, so that he might not think he was shut out of the confidence of the circle.

up Occurrences 21%

"In the first seven months he puttered around the little fumers, with an occasional excursion up to the main crater.

through Occurrences 18%

A good, strong traveler, who knows the way and the weather, might easily make a safe excursion through it from Yosemite Valley on snow-shoes during some tranquil time, when the storms are hushed.

for Occurrences 16%

We read of excursions for all kinds of purposes, of Indian games out of Fenimore Cooper, and of "Homeric battles."

among Occurrences 12%

In my excursions among the glaciers I occasionally meet bees that are hungry, like mountaineers who venture too far and remain too long above the bread-line; then they droop and wither like autumn leaves.

at Occurrences 11%

In the autumn her husband took her a journey into the north of England, going by Warwick, Stratford-upon-Avon, Chester, Liverpool, and the Lakes, some of the excursions at which she went on horseback.

down Occurrences 10%

Mr. Punchinello: It is just possible that you never went on a fine fishing excursion down the Bay with a party of nice young men.

by Occurrences 8%

Thus, anything like a "pleasure" excursion by water, in the neighborhood of New York, has been rendered impossible during the present season, by the New York Rendering Company.

across Occurrences 7%

They must have thought that I was some unsophisticated young ingenue that never had been further away from State street than an occasional excursion across the lake to St. Joe.

against Occurrences 6%

They essayed no great extension of their dominions; they did not try to extinguish their dangerous neighbors the schismatic Fatimites; and though they possessed and used fleets, they ventured upon no excursions against Europe.

along Occurrences 5%

In the spring of 1823, Byron persuaded them to occupy the Villa Paradiso, and was accustomed to accompany them frequently on horseback excursions along the coast to their favourite Nervi.

around Occurrences 4%

Just as they arrived, in one of their perambulatory excursions around the walks, at a small gate which opened on the hill-side, they discovered approaching them a worthy of the pedlar description, who carried on his broad German shoulders a large pack, which, as the pedlar jogged along, made, pretences continually of an intention to dive forward over his head, but always without carrying this intention into execution.

during Occurrences 4%

Nothing gave the children greater pleasure than to have permission to go with Mary and Kennedy in a large roomy birch canoe for a moonlight excursion during one of those warm, brilliant nights.

over Occurrences 4%

After this discovery, I made excursions over all the High Sierra, pushing my explorations summer after summer, and discovered that what at first sight in the distance looked like extensive snow-fields, wore in great part glaciers, busily at work completing the sculpture of the summit-peaks so grandly blocked out by their giant predecessors.

than Occurrences 4%

Up to this time our trip had seemed more like a Sunday-school excursion than anything else.

towards Occurrences 3%

It was now Kennedy's intention to make an excursion towards the Gulf of Carpentaria.

like Occurrences 3%

We often used to talk of a little excursion like this in London.

after Occurrences 3%

Unfavorable winds at Kaguiac delayed our sailing, so we passed the time in excursions after ptarmigans and mallards.

off Occurrences 2%

XXIV A LETTER PROM GERMANY Mother Carey walked down the village street one morning late in August, while Peter, milk pail in hand, was running by her side and making frequent excursions off the main line of travel.

Which preposition to use with  excursions