Which preposition to use with flounders

in Occurrences 67%

When he got back with the Colonel and the whiskey, O'Flynn floundering in the distance, Potts was feebly striking his breast with his arms, and Mac still bent above the motionless little body.

about Occurrences 26%

In the end, four of them occupied the next two hours (to the infinite but masked amusement of the town) in floundering about in the mud, setting up tents in the boggy wood above the settlement, and with much pains transporting thither as many of their possessions as they did not lose in the bottomless pit of the mire.

through Occurrences 20%

Between patches of ragged black spruce, wide stretches of snow-covered moss, under a lowering sky, and a mob of men floundering through the drifts to find a fortune.

into Occurrences 17%

Some of us find the ford and plash through the shallowsshallow ourselveswhile others flounder into deep water.

on Occurrences 5%

He fell without a cry and floundered on the floor, gasping.

among Occurrences 5%

I can manage the part fine, but I flounder among the 'thees' and 'thous.'

to Occurrences 4%

He was just over the boar, and about to deliver his thrust, when his horse stumbled in a rat hole (it was very rotten ground), and came floundering to earth, bringing his rider with him.

at Occurrences 3%

Quicksands all about her in which she would be floundering at this moment but for Mark King * *

across Occurrences 3%

She had hurt her foot by falling from a mossy boulder and Thorn had come to help as she floundered across a shallow pool.

like Occurrences 3%

If he gets up to recite about geography, or about 'a gentleman sent his servant to buy ten and five-eighths yards of fine broadcloth,' or anything of that sort, and if he happens to catch your eye at the moment, he flounders like a caught fish, stares hard at the map of North America on the wall, and sits down in disgrace.

for Occurrences 2%

Here is another example, Married Life (CASSELL), in which Miss MAY EDGINTON, following the mode, unites her hero and heroine at the beginning and leaves them to flounder for our edification amid the trials of double blessedness.

by Occurrences 2%

And as another automobile, in endeavoring to reach such a speed, dissolved into its separate parts, practically disintegrated, and left an astonished driver floundering by himself upon the sand, we may assume that no noticeably greater speed can be attained except by some wholly different method or new invention.

under Occurrences 2%

The steady rain in which we had traveled for eight hours then became a violent thunder-storm; all the brooks and ditches by the way were over their banks, and our horses could hardly flounder under their loads through the heavy going; while we, in the darkness, could not see the road, even where it could he followed, save when the lightning flashes showed it, and so, not being able to walk, rode perforce.

over Occurrences 2%

Half crawling, half sliding, over ridge and furrow, ditch and hedge, somewhat like Satan floundering over chaos, the unhappy minister travelled with all possible speed, as nearly as he could guess, in the direction of the place of refuge.

out Occurrences 2%

He could hear people running, and when a large woman, draping her wrapper about her, floundered out of a basement door near him, he followed her.

along Occurrences 2%

" They floundered along the twisting trench till it turned sharply to the right and ran out into the shallow hollow of the Frying Pan.

with Occurrences 1%

Are you safe?" "Yah, massa!" responded a voice from the depths, as Capua floundered with the remaining horse in the thicket at the lake-edge below.

after Occurrences 1%

At least ten times before sunset he crossed and recrossed the creek, and the disgusted and almost ready-to-quit cub waded and swam and floundered after him until he was nearly drowned.

against Occurrences 1%

A scrawny colt, escaping from the heels of a yearling floundered against him.

beneath Occurrences 1%

Then, just as the other was floundering beneath the surface of the agitated water again, Frank caught hold of his sweater close to his neck, and held on with might and main.

down Occurrences 1%

"Mine, I tell you!" He broke into a run, passing her, leaving the trail, floundering down the ridge the shortest way.

from Occurrences 1%

"Nor thou that flings me floundering from thy back.

onto Occurrences 1%

Once or twice they floundered onto sheer gravel slides which the broncho took by flinging back on its haunches and going down with stiffly braced forelegs.

Which preposition to use with  flounders