Which preposition to use with growls

of Occurrences 95%

It ceased, and with the growl of a leaping animal a squall furiously beset the ship.

at Occurrences 56%

I really think he might have chanced it, but Handy Solomon, who had been watching me closely, growled at him.

in Occurrences 35%

The car trembled like a great, eager monster, growling in leash.

FROM Occurrences 24%

A GROWL FROM A BRITON.

like Occurrences 18%

We heard a low growl like a muttered imprecation within, and when the door opened there stood upon the threshold a tall, bearded, muscular old fellow in a dirty red shirt, with a big revolver shining in his hand.

to Occurrences 16%

To-night, what with being held off by his snow-shoes, what with utter weariness and a dulled axe, he growled to himself that he was "only gnawin' a ring round the tree like a beaver!"

with Occurrences 8%

Toad-in-the-hole sat down growling with suppressed wrath, and the universal "Hear, hear!" sufficiently showed that he spoke the general feeling.

about Occurrences 7%

I used to lecture him sometimes, and growl about him to Jim, but Jim always said, "Let him alone.

into Occurrences 5%

"I'm glad he doesn't waken Miss Axtell," I thought; and gradually Kino dropped his growls into low, plaintive moans, which in time died away.

over Occurrences 4%

Blood on the carpet, blood on the armchairs and antimacassars, even a little blood spurtled on to the wall, and what was worse, Mrs. Tebrick tearing and growling over a piece of the skin and the legs, for she had eaten up all the rest of it.

for Occurrences 4%

We barked for some letters, and growled for others.

under Occurrences 4%

This was nothing extraordinary, but they started guiltily to their feet when they saw me, and made off, growling under their breaths.

between Occurrences 3%

"Very well," he growled between his teeth, advancing towards me threateningly, his fists clenched in his rage.

on Occurrences 2%

had got down, livid; he had gone into a little courtyard, which they pointed out to me, and where a dog growled on the chain; he had seated himself on a stone close by a dunghill, and he had said, "I am thirsty."

round Occurrences 2%

He pointed to Tregarva; there was a fierce growl round the room.

after Occurrences 2%

It is to this passage that the Wolf owes its name and in a narrow place invisible from the road the water seems to growl after the manner of a wild beast at meat.

out Occurrences 1%

As by this ambitious union with those that are above her, she is always forced upon disadvantageous comparisons of her condition with theirs, she has a constant source of misery within; and never returns from glittering assemblies and magnificent apartments but she growls out her discontent, and wonders why she was doomed to so indigent a state.

along Occurrences 1%

A Dyeri, on being asked why he painted red and white spots on his skin, answered: "Suppose me no make-im, me tumble down too; that one [the corpse] growl along-a-me."

among Occurrences 1%

All at once, as we were passing a great clump of bushes, on our right, Pepper disappeared, and I could hear him sniffing and growling among them, in a suspicious manner.

than Occurrences 1%

Between us" I got no further, for with a sudden exclamationit sounded more like a growl than anything elseTommy had risen from his chair.

around Occurrences 1%

All night the wolves growled around her, but harmed her not; neither was she in the least frightened by them.

against Occurrences 1%

Thus it was that slowly out of chaos came order, yet it came not unopposed, for many and divers were they that growled against this new order of things; but Beltane's hand was swift and heavy, moreover, remembering how he had dealt with Tostig, they growled amain but hasted to obey.

as Occurrences 1%

The tendency disappeared shortly after the experimenter gave up the use of the growl as a method of punishing the animal for what were suspected to be careless choices.

Which preposition to use with  growls