Which preposition to use with foam

of Occurrences 73%

Nearly all of his music is sweet and tender, lapsing from his round breast like water over the smooth lip of a pool, then breaking farther on into a sparkling foam of melodious notes, which, glow with subdued enthusiasm, yet without expressing much of the strong, gushing ecstasy of the bobolink or skylark.

with Occurrences 49%

He was also of that band of scoffers who used to rouse Lort Mansel from his slumbers in the lodge of Trinity; and when he appeared at the window, foaming with wrath, and crying out, "I know you, gentlemen; I know you!" were wont to reply, "We beseech thee to hear us, good Lort.

at Occurrences 48%

Two half-grown llamas, which are naturally as quiet and timid as sheep, bit each other very furiously, until they foamed at the mouth.

on Occurrences 30%

Our way from Murphy's to the cave lay across a series of picturesque, moory ridges in the chaparral region between the brown foot-hills and the forests, a flowery stretch of rolling hill-waves breaking here and there into a kind of rocky foam on the higher summits, and sinking into delightful bosky hollows embowered with vines.

from Occurrences 24%

She remained riding an unconscionable length of time, and when she drew rein again before her father's house, the black was flecked with foam from his clamped bit, and there was a thick lather under the stirrup leathers.

in Occurrences 22%

Shut your eyes, and you would swear a capacious bowl of punch was foaming in the centre, with beams of generous Port or Madeira radiating to it from each of the table corners.

over Occurrences 16%

The snow flew past their faces like the foam over the gunwale of a boat that is thrashing into a ten-knot breeze.

like Occurrences 11%

One ran to east, and one to south; They leaped and sparkled in the sun; They foamed like racers at the mouth, And laughed as if the race were won.

about Occurrences 8%

It is possible at first the Spaniards imagined the pirates intended to escape past their stern, for they instantly began backing oars to keep them from getting past, so that the water was all of a foam about them; at the same time they did this they poured in such a fire of musketry that it was a miracle that no more execution was accomplished than happened.

along Occurrences 8%

So have I seen a river gently glide, 60 In a smooth course and inoffensive tide; But if with dams its current we restrain, It bears down all, and foams along the plain.

around Occurrences 7%

There was no foam around the rock where he sat; no wave beat against its granite sides.

down Occurrences 7%

The train had long passed Hornberg, and far below the streams tumbled in white foam down the limestone rocks.

against Occurrences 5%

This is a custom that has been observed since time immemorial; and one should have been there when the first sea-wave was dashed into foam against the shore, to be able to explain just why Kullaberg was chosen as a rendezvous, in preference to all other places.

through Occurrences 5%

From the bridge which spans the Tyne at Chollerford one of the finest views of the river, both up and down the stream, is to be seen; and to watch the swift brown stream, after a flood or a freshet, foaming through the arches is an exhilarating sight.

to Occurrences 4%

She lay beating upon a rock, against which the tempest hurled breakers that dashed their foam to a height of thirty feet.

under Occurrences 4%

And its wave sweeps by Just a great wave of the air, Tossing the leaves in its sea, And foaming under the eaves of the roof That covers me.

behind Occurrences 4%

We spoke not as the shore grew less, But gazed in silence back, Where the long billows swept away The foam behind our track.

by Occurrences 4%

The of foam by the roadside proved that his horse had been going fast.

within Occurrences 3%

Well might be seen the foam within their mouths, and the flames that issued from their jaws.

as Occurrences 3%

He is the mountain streams' own darling, the humming-bird of blooming waters, loving rocky ripple-slopes and sheets of foam as a bee loves flowers, as a lark loves sunshine and meadows.

among Occurrences 2%

His recovering senses were distracted by a ceaseless watery din, for the breaking waves, rushing with a prodigious swiftness from the harbor to the shore before the driving wind, fell with uproarious crashing into white foam among the rocks.

between Occurrences 2%

Down through the weird and fairy-haunted cleft of Henhole, as we have seen, the little brown stream of Colledge Water splashes its way, breaking into golden foam between mossy banks as it reaches the outlet, and turns northward to join the Till.

past Occurrences 2%

It is so sensitive that one can almost see it respond to the most distant shower; but directly the rain falls and it is fed by a thousand Apennine torrents it foams past this bridge in fury.

into Occurrences 2%

Yesterday it was the cider-press, and I stood about, at Amélie's, in the sun, half the afternoon, watching the motor hash the apples, and the press squeeze out the yellow juice, which rushed foaming into big vats.

before Occurrences 2%

Now, the pony foams before us; now, swift as the wind, it is gone.

Which preposition to use with  foam