Which preposition to use with garret

of Occurrences 37%

Once, when I was a little older, I came upon one of his discarded wooden legs as I was playing in the garret of the house.

in Occurrences 28%

" Mentioning Thomson, and other descriptive poets, he remarks, that writers fail in their copies, for want of acquaintance with originals, and justly ridicules those who think they can form just ideas of valleys, mountains, and rivers, in a garret in the Strand.

with Occurrences 7%

They found long rooms, vast garrets with filthy walls and low ceilings, furnished with wooden tables and benches.

without Occurrences 6%

This great work I wrote in a garret without fire, on candle wrappers, on snuff papers" At this point, from one corner of the parlour, a crow of childish laughter went off like a rocket.

to Occurrences 6%

In order to reach the garret from this part of the house she must go directly down the hall to where it parted at the L, where the stairs reaching the garret were shut off by a door, on the other aide of which was a square landing, where you could turn down and descend directly from the garret to the buttery.

for Occurrences 5%

"There hasn't been a servant in that garret for many a long year," said she.

at Occurrences 4%

" I stumbled after Mr. Jones up a dark, narrow, iron staircase till we emerged through a trap-door into a garret at the top of the house.

into Occurrences 2%

Having been arrested some days before us, they were rather more conveniently lodged, and taking the wretchedness of our garret into consideration, it was agreed that Mad.

above Occurrences 2%

The corresponding three-eighths, or the remaining half of the front, and the whole of the west wing, were given to visiters, and were now in possession of the people of the valley; as were all the rooms and garrets above them.

by Occurrences 2%

" "Betty is in the garret by now," she faltered.

over Occurrences 2%

" Now after Sir Launcelot had supped, his hostess showed him to the lodging she had provided for him wherein to sleep, and the lodging was in a fair garret over the gateway of the court.

about Occurrences 1%

A friend of mine went to see him, and after mounting up to a little garret about the size of a chessboard, au vingt-septième, he interrogated the owner as to the dog's education and acquirements, to which the man replied, 'Pour ca, monsieur, c'est un chien parfait.

on Occurrences 1%

It was she who washed the dishes, and scrubbed down the stairs, and polished the floors in my lady's chamber and in those of the two pert misses, her daughters; and while the latter slept on good feather beds in elegant rooms, furnished with full-length looking-glasses, their sister lay in a wretched garret on an old straw mattress.

beneath Occurrences 1%

Where their pathway entered the alders, below the lane, they vanished from our sight; and, leaving Mount to watch I went back to the house, to search it thoroughly from cellar to the dark garret beneath the eaves.

from Occurrences 1%

In order to reach the garret from this part of the house she must go directly down the hall to where it parted at the L, where the stairs reaching the garret were shut off by a door, on the other aide of which was a square landing, where you could turn down and descend directly from the garret to the buttery.

under Occurrences 1%

Two more men piled the pieces into huge sacks and staggered with those on their backs up the five flights of stairs to the top garret under the peak of the house, which belonged to the Wellanders.

underneath Occurrences 1%

A garret underneath the roof, off there in Paris, in the Latin Quarter!

down Occurrences 1%

During his abode at Reading an accident had like to have put an end to his follies and his life together; for he had the ill-luck to fall from his garret down the whole flight of stairs; but being destined to lengthen out a useless life for some time longer, he escaped with only a severe bruising.

like Occurrences 1%

No doubt most of it would be done in the office, but some of it would be done at home; and at nightfall he would descend from his garret like a bat from the eaves.

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