Which preposition to use with feeds

on Occurrences 604%

The lakes, the rivers, and the streams abound in trout, while abundance of deer feed on the lily pads and grasses that grow in the shallow water, or the natural meadows that line the shore.

with Occurrences 191%

Here you will not find Grecian fables adorned with many lies, nor Trojan battles, foul with blood and gore, but amorous sentiments fed with torturing desires.

in Occurrences 157%

I have more than once been thus paddled within thirty yards of a deer while feeding in the water.

for Occurrences 89%

He would feed for a minute or two and then look carefully all around him.

at Occurrences 72%

I have seen wild bees and butterflies feeding at a height of 13,000 feet above the sea.

from Occurrences 58%

From no other crop that can be cultivated does the public derive so much benefit; and it has been demonstrated that an acre of potatoes will feed double the number of people that can be fed from an acre of wheat.

of Occurrences 50%

Three times that week he heard the shouts of menand once he heard a white man's laughter and the barking of dogs as their master tossed them their daily feed of fish.

to Occurrences 48%

Still, besides supplying their own wants, in times of plenty the Indians bring large quantities to market; then they are eaten around nearly every fireside in the State, and are even fed to horses occasionally instead of barley.

into Occurrences 20%

A country feeding into the insatiable maw of war with one hand, and with the other pouring relief-funds into coffers bombarded by guns of its own manufacturequelling the wound with a finger and widening it with a knife up the cuff.

like Occurrences 20%

Walk down the road and you will come to a place where you will be made at home and fed like a king.

by Occurrences 16%

He insisted that he had seen some, by the side of which the largest we had looked upon by daylight, were mere fawns, and thereupon he undertook to establish a theory that the large deer fed by night and the smaller ones by day.

than Occurrences 16%

The Shasta bees are perhaps better fed than any others in the Sierra.

as Occurrences 12%

Children can of course be better and more cheaply fed as a group than as isolated units supplied with a cold home-prepared lunch box.

out Occurrences 12%

They came up to our boat and fed out of Eveena's hand with perfect fearlessness.

along Occurrences 11%

I have been within fair shooting distance of twenty in a single afternoon while floating along one of those rivers, and have counted upwards of forty in view at the same time, feeding along the margin of one of the beautiful lakes hid away in the deep forest.

without Occurrences 7%

Taking with me Mr. Brown and Mr. Harding mounted, and one pack-horse carrying water, we struck through the hills to the eastward, and at six miles came upon a stream-bed that led us to the north-east fifteen or sixteen miles, when, finding it contained no water, we resumed an easterly course over an open sandy and stony plain, covered with triodia, for twelve miles, and encamped in poor feed without water.

during Occurrences 6%

In these the birds sleep during the day; and as soon as evening sets in, the decoy rises, and the wild fowl feed during the night.

among Occurrences 6%

First, that the Priesthood might be altogether at leisure for the service of GOD: and that they of that Holy Order might not be distracted with the cares of the world; and interrupted by every neighbour's horse or cow that breaks their hedges or shackles [or hobbled, feeds among] their corn.

near Occurrences 5%

The banks of the stream are sandstone and sand, and the channel scarcely three yards wide, with a strip of grassy thicket twenty yards in width along the stream, which is the only feed near the river, as the plain through which it runs produces nothing but scrub and banksia with a few grass-trees.

before Occurrences 5%

When feeding before teething is necessary.

about Occurrences 4%

Their usual method is to feed about some high cliffs or rocks, taking an occasional mouthful of brush, and then suddenly throwing up the head and gazing and listening for a long time before again taking food.

after Occurrences 4%

Again, in the Netherlands, experienced shepherds are careful not to let their flocks feed after sunset, for there are wicked elves that prepare poison in certain plantsnightwort being one of these.

under Occurrences 3%

A glance at the Imperial Manoeuvres of 1909 is sufficient to show that many of the operations could never have been carried out had it been a question of the troops being fed under the conditions of war.

above Occurrences 3%

"In a few, very few, whom I have had the pleasure to see reasonably nursed, that were not fed above two or three times in twenty-four hours, and yet were perfectly healthy, active, and happy, I have seen these signals, which were as intelligible as if they had spoken.

through Occurrences 3%

At last accounts half the population of Hamburg was being fed through municipal kitchens and in Great Britain an order has been issued by Lord Rhondda, the Food Controller, authorizing local authorities to open kitchens as food distributing centers.

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