Which preposition to use with footed

of Occurrences 5668%

I leant over, and glanced down to the foot of the wall, to see whether the body of the Thing I had shot the night before was still there.

in Occurrences 2945%

After the first rush, the flow of water eased down to a steady stream, maybe a foot in depth; though I could not see this, until I had procured one of the lighted candles, and, with it, started to reconnoiter.

above Occurrences 986%

Captain Parkinson, stiff and erect in his chair, staring fixedly at a spot two feet above the reporter's head, seemed to weigh, as a judge weighs, the facts so picturesquely, set forth.

on Occurrences 951%

With my foot on the first step, I paused.

from Occurrences 778%

If you should visit it within a year or two, you will perhaps notice some forked stakes standing a few feet from the place of the fire, and a bed of withered and dry boughs (now fresh and green).

to Occurrences 561%

A couple of feet to the right of the nearer end, was a great dent in the ground; showing where it had struck.

with Occurrences 463%

Flossie sits on the flagging at her feet with an intent eye upon the ball of worsted.

by Occurrences 292%

Inch by inch we crept forward: foot by foot we made leeway.

at Occurrences 221%

A sharp pain in my knee nearly doubled me to the ground and yet I remember clamping to the thought that I must keep my feet, keep my feet at any cost.

into Occurrences 206%

It then rushes down a steep, shelving rock some twenty feet into a great rocky basin; then down again over a shelving rock in a fall of twenty feet into another rocky basin; and then again in another fall of twenty or thirty feet, over a steep, shelving rock, shooting with a swift current far out into the lake.

below Occurrences 200%

For a brief instant, I watched its fall, and saw the light shine on a tumult of white foam, some eighty or a hundred feet below me.

for Occurrences 182%

After travelling on foot for a day and a night; drenched by rain; scorched by the sun; crippled by rocks and roots; frightened by rattle-snakes and panthers; blistered and swollen by poisonous insects; nearly starved; tired to death; and presenting the most pitiable appearance in the world, Mr. P. reached the encampment of Mr. MURRAY, proprietor and exhibitor of the Adirondacks.

per Occurrences 102%

To complete the first task more easily, I arrested the motion of the vessel till she rose only a few feet per minute.

against Occurrences 96%

About halfway up the cellar, I stubbed my foot against something that gave out a metallic sound.

as Occurrences 79%

She dropped her hurried walk and frankly took to her heels, Joe doing the same; but as she was nearly as fleet of foot as Muckluck, in spite of her fat, she still kept a lessening distance between herself and her pursuer.

like Occurrences 76%

He stamped his foot like an angry child as he imagined her in her thin summer clothes.

under Occurrences 70%

The old woman was six foot under ground afore I could chaw.

through Occurrences 69%

Meanwhile, all the inquiries set on foot through the agency of the Atterburys failed to bring any tidings of Barney Moore.

out Occurrences 63%

I never have any pleasure, I never put my foot out of the house except to go to market,and what thanks do I get for it?

over Occurrences 63%

It was undoubtedly a portion of some ruined building; yet now I made out that it was not built upon the edge of the chasm itself, as I had at first supposed; but perched almost at the extreme end of a huge spur of rock that jutted out some fifty or sixty feet over the abyss.

behind Occurrences 50%

Uncle Pros, yet gasping, was trying to help Gray into the seat; but with his hampering manacles and the jerking of the car, the younger man was still on his knees, when the chase burst through the bushes, scarcely more than three hundred feet behind them.

before Occurrences 44%

You did not blanch; you immediately walked straight into the shaft of light although you could not see a foot before you.

within Occurrences 43%

" While the three battleships went back over their courses in more stately fashion, the launches darted here and there, until it seemed as though they must cover every foot within a square mile.

between Occurrences 41%

Only thirty feet between him and safety!

without Occurrences 39%

" Not only here, but over the whole county of Norfolk, the well-sinker might carry his shaft down many hundred feet without coming to the end of the chalk; and, on the sea-coast, where the waves have pared away the face of the land which breasts them, the scarped faces of the high cliffs are often wholly formed of the same material.

Which preposition to use with  footed