Which preposition to use with felling

to Occurrences 15%

I could see, however, that the negro had different men to deal with here, and if he had not taken his departure, he would, without a doubt, have been kicked or felled to the ground, on the least further provocationa course pursued without hesitation in cases where a negro assumes anything like equality in the south.

of Occurrences 15%

As you go eastward, for instance, across the evacuated ground you notice everywhere signs of increasing haste and flurry, such as the less complete felling of trees and telegraph posts.

in Occurrences 12%

The age of one that was felled in the Calaveras Grove, for the sake of having its stump for a dancing-floor, was about 1300 years, and its diameter, measured across the stump, 24 feet inside the bark.

for Occurrences 6%

Several of these trees were felled for other purposes into a lake, when an epidemic fever of a very mortal kind prevailed at Loxa in Peru, and the woodmen, accidentally drinking the water, were cured; and thus were discovered the virtues of this famous drug.

at Occurrences 5%

That occasionally some trifling event may have the most momentous issues is thus exemplified: "The smallest axe may fell the largest oak;" Although, on the other hand, it is said that: "An oak is not felled at one chop.

of Occurrences 5%

In the Hebrides, Orkneys, and the Highlands of Scotland, it is also found; and sometimes, though rarely, among the fells of Northumberland and Cumberland.

across Occurrences 4%

"The magnificent tall fir-trees which are so characteristic of Belgian roads, had been felled across the highways.

with Occurrences 3%

On the other side, a line of rugged fells with summits lost in snow clouds, rose dark and forbidding.

from Occurrences 2%

The forests, which had been felled from the Golden Farm to Fair Oaks to form an army's vast abattis, were burning in sections, sending roaring tornadoes of flame into rifle pits, redoubts, and abandoned fortifications.

during Occurrences 1%

The trees are felled during winter.

about Occurrences 1%

There was at Norwood one oak that had mistletoe, a timber tree, which was felled about 1657.

by Occurrences 1%

His experienced ear told him that the horseman was approaching by the Dardale road, which, after crossing that wide and dismal moss, passes the southern fells by Dunner Cleugh and finally enters the town of Golden Friars by joining the Mardykes road, at the edge of the lake, close to the gate of the Vicar's house.

into Occurrences 1%

It seemed quite otherwise in New York, where Canada was represented as a ripe plum ready to fell into Uncle Sam's mouth when he should open it.

like Occurrences 1%

Is it not very explicitly stated in Holy Writ that though the wicked may flourish for a while they are presently felled like green bay-trees?"

beyond Occurrences 1%

All the large trees that Jonas had felled beyond the brook, he cut up into lengths, and hauled them up into the yard, and made a great high wood-pile of them, higher than his head; but all the branches, and the small bushes, with all the green leaves upon them, lay about the ground in confusion.

on Occurrences 1%

"A dismal moss is Dardale Moss, sir; and a bleak clim' up the fells on t' other side.

than Occurrences 1%

She found out also that, just as a doe is easier felled than a horned buck, certain of this new kind of game were more easily taken than the others.

around Occurrences 1%

Trees had been felled around the whole area, with the open spaces filled by branches, in a way to form what is termed a brush fence.

along Occurrences 1%

I sought not honour on so base a train, Such cowards by our women may be slain; I felled along a man of bearded face, His limbs all covered with a shining case: So wondrous hard, and so secure of wound, It made my sword, though edged with flint, re-bound.

within Occurrences 1%

Although of immense size, the trees are almost invariably sound; and as they can be felled within a few yards of the beach, it is not impossible that at some future period timber may form a valuable article of export.

above Occurrences 1%

He used to walk through the woodlands on the slopes of the fells above Mardykes, muttering to himself, picking up the rotten sticks with which the ground was strewn, breaking them in his hands, and hurling them from him, and stamping on the earth as he paced up and down.

Which preposition to use with  felling