Which preposition to use with grub

in Occurrences 22%

Gun in hand and grub in pocket, he marched off to play his last trump-card.

for Occurrences 18%

It must be rather a bore having to spend all your money in rings and that sort of thing, instead of in grub; though I really think I'd have given up grub for Miss Eleanor.

at Occurrences 6%

It is a matter of everyday experience that it is difficult to prevent many articles of food from becoming covered with mould; that fruit, sound enough to all appearance, often contains grubs at the core; that meat, left to itself in the air, is apt to putrefy and swarm with maggots.

on Occurrences 5%

We shall be just a-shivering and a-shaking, and a-starving with cold, and short of grub on that 'ere hill; and the Rooshians will be comfortable in the town a-laughing at us.

with Occurrences 4%

He is anxious only for his dinner, and swallows seed-corn and noxious grubs with perfect impartiality.

after Occurrences 4%

Didn't you know there was something better in the world than grubbing after musty old tribes and customs and folk-songs?

among Occurrences 4%

It gave men a passion for pure learning, set Jonson to turn himself from a bricklayer into the best equipped scholar of his day, and Fuller and Camden grubbing among English records and gathering for the first time materials of scientific value for English history.

from Occurrences 4%

Long before dawn, the roads leading townwards are busy with all manner of vehicles, from the great waggon drawn by four white horses driven tandem, and laden with a moving stack of hay, to the ramshackle donkey-cart conveying half a score of cabbages, a heap of dandelions grubbed from the meadows, and the owner.

about Occurrences 3%

The bear was grubbing about on the hillside, and we took our position so that he crossed us under a hundred yards.

of Occurrences 3%

One seemed sick; he was thin, and his back was scarred with marks of the grub of the loathsome berni fly.

into Occurrences 2%

But I am not going to have you throw all of our chances away by dumping grub into the fire.

beneath Occurrences 2%

Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers.

as Occurrences 2%

I have a girl who to-day has done as good a day's work at grubbing as any man, but I could not make her a hand at cotton-picking.

along Occurrences 2%

But she will not ask him for money, and just grubs along on what she can get with the butter money.

out Occurrences 2%

And I saw him picking some fat white grubs out of those old rotten stumps we passed at the time we rested, an hour back.

between Occurrences 1%

When the Boy joined him, there he was sitting up in Nicholas's sled, appallingly emaciated, but brisk as you please, ordering the disposition of the axe and rifle along either side, the tea-kettle and grub between his feet, showing how the deer-skin blankets should be wrapped, and especially was he dictatorial about the lashing of the mahout.

through Occurrences 1%

I could have gone on contentedly grubbing through my musty, sleepy life here, till death had taken me, if only you had not shown me what life might mean!

under Occurrences 1%

To-day the pearl-diver is grubbing under the waves that are lapping the Sooloo Islands, the coast of Coromandel, and the shores of Algiers.

like Occurrences 1%

In front of me fat blue lizards scuttled away, looking like little lilac-coloured dachshunds; silent brown snakes shot out of reach at the sight of my shadow; and every now and then, poking and grubbing like a hedgehog, behold a large tortoise out for prey like his brother reptiles.

up Occurrences 1%

], grubs up the underwood, splits some of the large timber for railing fences, and sets fire to the rest upon the spot; ploughs round the stumps of the large timber, and in May plants maize, or indian corn.

Which preposition to use with  grub