Which preposition to use with geese

of Occurrences 18%

Vielpanser is the goose of the Nile, and wherever this goose is represented on the walls of the temples in colours, the resemblance may be clearly traced."

in Occurrences 17%

There is never a time my cart cometh from London, but the collier bringeth a goose in his sack, and that, with the giblets thereof, is at your service.

on Occurrences 17%

Do you suppose I would sit here like a goose on a gridiron and let you hold my foot if it didn't hurt?

in Occurrences 14%

The bushy mulberry-trees the geese in rows Seek eager and to rest around them close With rustling loud, as disappointment grows.

with Occurrences 14%

Season a fat goose with salt and pepper, and rub well with vinegar.

for Occurrences 10%

But I gave away the goose for a fowl. WIFE.

to Occurrences 8%

As a side issue the blameless baronet had a little goose to wife, who went to Dampier's Maidenhead bungalow and fell into the river.

of Occurrences 8%

The park also had starback tortoises, monitor lizards, ducks and geese of various kinds, monkeys and other small animals.

at Occurrences 6%

" "Thou pratest like an ass," said Robin, "for I could send this shaft clean through thy proud heart before a curtal friar could say grace over a roast goose at Michaelmastide.

on Occurrences 6%

The wild geese on the bushy jujube-trees Attempt to settle and are ill at ease; Suh-suh their wings go flapping in the breeze.

with Occurrences 5%

In the sky above them, wild geese with flashing white wings honked away toward the south, and a meadow lark, that jolly fellow who comes early and stays late, on a red-leafed haw-tree poured out his little heart in melody.

by Occurrences 5%

He sees you take a goose by the crown.

into Occurrences 4%

Clean and cut a fat goose into pieces; season with salt, pepper and ginger.

to Occurrences 3%

Provision was easily to be had, for they killed, almost every day, a hundred geese to each ship, by pelting them with stones.

about Occurrences 3%

Your lordship, with your flock of geese about you, would probably be frolic and gamesome.

as Occurrences 3%

But no one had such a contempt for tame geese as Akka and her flock, and gladly would he have shown them that he was their equal.

before Occurrences 3%

I could go back to the wild geese before sunrise.

for Occurrences 3%

At the proper time, he sold the young geese for the largest sum he had ever seen in his life; for, though to have kept some of them might have proved an additional source of profit, he knew that he had only accommodation for one to hatch.

behind Occurrences 2%

I gave little heed to the mention of this known Circumstance, till, being the other day in those Quarters, I passed by a decrepit old Fellow with a Pole in his Hand, who just then was bawling out, Half an Hour after one a-Clock, and immediately a dirty Goose behind him made her Response, Quack, Quack.

at Occurrences 2%

Beckwith, his editor, says, "Probably no other reason can be given for this custom, but that Michaelmas Day was a great festival, and geese at that time were most plentiful."

into Occurrences 2%

" The boy led the geese into the cowshed, which was rather large, and placed them in an empty manger, where they fell asleep instantly.

like Occurrences 2%

After every meal the feeding place must be cleaned, for, while geese like a clean place, they never leave any place clean in which they have been.

as Occurrences 2%

If that lank-and-leather-jawed gentleman, with complexion bespeaking a temperament dry and adust, and who has long been sedulously occupied in feeling the edge of his fruit-knife with the ball of his thumbdo not commit suicide before September,Lavater must have been as great a goose as Gall.

from Occurrences 2%

"Now I'll take the goose from you anyway," cried he, and held on as hard as ever he could, but he hadn't strength enough to stop Smirre.

over Occurrences 2%

"What d'ye mean?" Before I could answer there came up a man carrying a shotgun in one hand, and a wild goose over his shoulder.

Which preposition to use with  geese