Which preposition to use with grain

of Occurrences 743%

" He inquired of me what these societies were; and on explaining their history, observed: "By what you tell me, it is indeed a small beginning; but if they can get this grain of mustard-seed to grow, there is no saying how much it may multiply.

in Occurrences 92%

Everyone longed to touch and feel about in the glittering pile, but no one as yet had dared to lay a finger on the smallest grain in the hoard.

for Occurrences 58%

You'd fight, wouldn't you, to save your grain for our soldiersbread for your own brother Jiman' for your own land?" "Fight!

from Occurrences 48%

" "But sir," said Mr. P. "the war may cause a great exportation of grain from the West, and then your road will profit.

to Occurrences 42%

If the year be bad inside the Ho, I remove as many of the people as I can to the east of it, and convey grain to the country inside.

with Occurrences 37%

" "It goes against the grain with him, any way you fix it," said Mr. FIELD, with a festive air.

on Occurrences 19%

We bought flour and grain on a sixty days' credit, which I carried to the Kennebec, Portsmouth, Boston, New Bedford, and other eastern ports, calculating upon the returns of the voyage to take up our notes.

into Occurrences 14%

The way they make this bread is as follows:From large round panniers filled with wheat they take out a handful at a time, sorting it most carefully and expeditiously, and throwing every defective grain into another basket.

by Occurrences 12%

On one occasion he was cutting rice with a score or two of his fellow-disciples, when some hungry thieves came upon them to take away their grain by force.

as Occurrences 11%

At one point the main difference between Sir Robert Peel, the leader of the House of Commons, and Lord John Russell, the leader of the opposition, seems to have been nothing more than this, that Peel still regarded grain as a necessary exception to the principle of free trade, and Lord John Russell was not clear that the time had come when it could be treated otherwise than as an exception.

at Occurrences 9%

By the Act of 1815 wheat might be exported upon a payment of one shilling per quarter customs duty, but the importation of foreign grain was practically prohibited until the price of wheat in England had reached eighty shillings a quarter, that is to say, until a certain price had been secured for the grower of grain at the expense of all the consumers in this country.

than Occurrences 9%

But Etta Sydney Bamborough had to deal with metal of a harder grain than the majority of us.

per Occurrences 8%

In one of the islands, where provision-ground did not answer one year in three, the allowance to a working Negro was but from five to nine pints of grain per week: in Dominica, where it never failed, from six to seven quarts: in Nevis and St. Christopher's, where there was no provision-ground, it was but eleven pints.

before Occurrences 7%

"The order was given, and the French ranks fell as grain before the sickle.

under Occurrences 5%

In vain Cato inveighed against this shortsighted policy: the rise of demagogism had a part in it, and these extraordinary, but presumably very frequent, distributions of grain under the market price by the government or individual magistrates became the germs of the subsequent corn-laws.

out Occurrences 4%

He was busy digging the remaining gold-grains out of the crack and the knothole.

without Occurrences 2%

The pews are of various dimensionssome long, some square, all highand, whilst grained without, they are all green within.

after Occurrences 2%

Garrison and Phillips and Douglass and the rest had planted, Birney and Gerrit Smith and Chase and the rest watered, and the Union party, led by the great emancipator, garnered the grain after a bloody harvest.

among Occurrences 2%

One might as well start to gather the hundred finest among the leaves of a forest, or to pick up the hundred most glittering grains among the sand on a beach.

down Occurrences 2%

Large raft-like barges convey this grain down the rivers, from the interior of the country to the seaports.

off Occurrences 2%

Nobody spoke and everybody watched, and when, finally, with his hand, he brushed the remaining grains off the torn paper into the envelope, poured them into the gaping sack-mouth, and lazily pulled at the buckskin draw-string, everybody sat wondering how much, if any, of the precious metal had escaped through the tear, and how soon Dillon would come out of his brown study, remember, and recover the loss.

toward Occurrences 2%

Rebekah, when she came to fill her earthen pitcher at the palm-shaded well, looked out with dusky, dreamy eyes across the golden grain toward the mysterious east.

beyond Occurrences 1%

After this triumphal celebration he entertained the populace splendidly, giving them grain beyond the regular measure and olive oil.

between Occurrences 1%

But upon this platform of ignoring the political strife of six consecutive years, in which he had himself taken such vigorous part, he and his followers were of course but as grain between the upper and nether millstones.

beside Occurrences 1%

But never has applause sounded so sweet to me as it did along those dusty roads in France, with the poppies gleaming red and the cornflowers blue through the yellow fields of grain beside the roads!

Which preposition to use with  grain