Which preposition to use with fells

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.

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.

of Occurrences 3%

His relations, fearing lest the partisans of the house of York should avenge the death of the young Earl of Rutland on the young Lord Clifford, then a mere infant, concealed him for the next twenty-five years of his life in the Fells of Cumberland, where he grew up as hardy as the heath on which he vegetated, and as ignorant as the rude herds which bounded over it.

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.

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.

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%

[Footnote d: As there are no "naked crags" with "half-inch fissures in the slippery rocks" in the "cultured vale" of Esthwaite, the locality referred to is probably the Hohne Fells above Yewdale, to the north of Coniston, and only a few miles from Hawkshead, where a crag, now named Raven's Crag, divides Tilberthwaite from Yewdale.

on Occurrences 1%

The view from the front of the old mansion is limited by houses, doubtless more so now than in last century; but there is no hill towards the Lorton Fells on the south or south-east, with a road over it, visible from any part of the town.

about Occurrences 1%

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

throughout Occurrences 1%

It was dark; and an awful thunder-storm, whose march, like the distant reverberations of an invading army, had been faintly heard beyond the barriers of Blarwyn Fells throughout the afternoon, was near them now, and had burst in deep-mouthed battle among the ravines at the other side, and over the broad lake, that glared like a sheet of burnished steel under its flashes of dazzling blue.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

during Occurrences 1%

The trees are felled during winter.

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?"

Which preposition to use with  fells