Which preposition to use with gobble

at Occurrences 3%

He spread his legs apart to steady himself, and gobbled at his food like a duck.

for Occurrences 2%

If you really want to know, you lift two of your men out of their revolving-chairs, and hang one over a forty-horse-power cook-stove that's booming along under forced draft so that your dinner won't be late, with a turkey that's gobbling for basting in one oven, and a cake that's gone back on you in a low, underhand way in another, and sixteen different things boiling over on top and mixing up their smells.

down Occurrences 1%

Mama Thérèse and Papa Dupont seemed to have declared an armistice and were gobbling down the rest of their meal in silence and indecorous haste.

from Occurrences 1%

I guess you'd feel the same way if you just imagined you were going to have a piece gobbled from your leg with every revolution you made.

like Occurrences 1%

He stood waving his arms and gobbling like an infuriated turkey while his adversary replied in similar fashion.

of Occurrences 1%

A favorite stratagem was to imitate the call of game, especially the gobble of the wild turkey, and thus to lure the would-be hunter to his fate.

on Occurrences 1%

The material for her Thanksgiving dinner was all aboard: part of it canned and boxed as the steamer had just brought it from Norfolk; and the rest of it, and the best of it, plump and gobbling on the stern.

than Occurrences 1%

You're slower to gobble than most.

before Occurrences 1%

As I went through on foot, each of these dogs picked me up, examined me nasally and passed me on, not generously as though I had stood the test, but rather in deep suspicion that I was a queer fellow, not to be penetrated at first, but one who would surely be found out and gobbled before coming to the end of the street.

Which preposition to use with  gobble