Which preposition to use with fences

of Occurrences 96%

Look over the fences of the houses and into the hedges.

in Occurrences 82%

But there he was on his feet across a ten-foot fence in a ploughed fieldyes, he flew the fence and running, running furiously in the opposite direction, when the dust cleared away.

with Occurrences 76%

Also the cañon walls and gorges, which form so considerable a part of the area of the range, while inaccessible to domestic sheep, are well fringed with honey-shrubs, and contain thousands of lovely bee-gardens, lying hid in narrow side-cañons and recesses fenced with avalanche taluses, and on the top of flat, projecting headlands, where only bees would think to look for them.

at Occurrences 33%

All eyes fix upon the agitated Mr. BUMSTEAD, as he wildly attempts to step over the tall paling of the Gospeler's fence at a stride, and goes crashing headlong through it instead.

on Occurrences 32%

In speaking of Madame Delphine's house, mention should have been made of a gate in the fence on the Royal-street sidewalk.

into Occurrences 29%

He tumbled backward over the fence into the bleachers and for a few moments there were some who thought that he had been seriously injured.

around Occurrences 24%

A boy said that he had gotten a pot of paint, and painted in large letters on the fences around his father's farm: "Spare the toads, don't kill the birds.

for Occurrences 18%

He said when he was a young man he and a railroad brakeman got busted at Topeka, and they had an order book printed, and went all over Kansas taking orders for Osier willows, which they warranted to grow so high in two years they would make fences for the farms that no animals or blizzards could get over or through, and make shade for the houses and the whole farm.

to Occurrences 16%

Finally, Samuel came to the break in the woodland, an open field of rye, green as springtime grass, and his own exquisitely neat abode beckoning across the gray rail-fence to him.

about Occurrences 13%

Yet after men began to gather there the place had inviolability in name without its effects; for it was so fenced about that no one at all could any longer enter it.

from Occurrences 10%

That the Second Minnesota was in close contact with the enemy was evident all along its line, blasts of fire and belching smoke coming across the fence from Mississippi muskets.

by Occurrences 10%

The undaunted driver instantly sprang from his box, tore a stake from a rail fence by the road-side, laid it across under the body of the coach, and was off again before I properly recovered the use of my senses, which were completely bewildered by the jolting I had undergone.

near Occurrences 8%

A magnificent young horse thrust his head familiarly over the fence near by, and under the shade of a great tree Primrose, with her graceful calf beside her, was lazily chewing her cud.

like Occurrences 8%

You never see him losing time by going round by the streets, but away he goes over the garden fences like a cat, or he will whip through a house, if standing in his way, as if he were its owner, should the door happen to be open.

against Occurrences 7%

Every one ought to fence against the Temper of his Climate or Constitution, and frequently to indulge in himself those Considerations which may give him a Serenity of Mind, and enable him to bear up chearfully against those little Evils and Misfortunes which are common to humane Nature, and which by a right Improvement of them will produce a Satiety of Joy, and an uninterrupted Happiness.

than Occurrences 5%

"We all know that Ransom and Jake Farge hev had trouble over the claim that Farge staked out inside o' Ransom's fence; an' we know that Ransom has no more right to the land he fenced than the coyotes that run on it.

under Occurrences 5%

A gate is that part of a fence under which many tracks and many scents go; it is also a section which swings a little and rattles annoyingly in a wind.

before Occurrences 4%

"The English had built up a fence before them with their shields and with ash and other wood, and had well joined and wattled in the whole work, so as not to leave even a crevice; and thus they had a barricade in their front through which any Norman who would attack them must first pass.

across Occurrences 4%

Next he made a hasty fence across the canon's mouth, and turning the sheep out of the pen, he drove them by slow stages toward the rest of the flock.

along Occurrences 4%

* I went out this morning with my axe and hammer to mend the fence along the public road.

as Occurrences 4%

Having stuffed out his man of straw, he proceeds gravely to argue with him, as if he were as cunning of fence as Duns Scotus.

behind Occurrences 4%

A ragged row of them borders the dilapidated picket fence behind which, crowding up to the sociable road, stands the house.

between Occurrences 4%

McGee had decided to build a fence between the farm he had purchased and that of White, and, during the winter, his teamsters were set to hauling the rails; and, in unloading them, they accidentally threw some of them over the line on to White's land.

without Occurrences 4%

He would leap an ugly fence without moving an inch in his saddle, and both in skill and the quality of his mounts he was an easy victor.

round Occurrences 3%

Why you put fence round a house, like pound for sheep?" "Because I intend to stay there.

Which preposition to use with  fences