Which preposition to use with hawthorn

in Occurrences 9%

A fortnight ago, when I last came up this lane by night, it was the flash of the white hawthorn in the starlight that burst upon me with such a sudden beauty.

of Occurrences 2%

presentimentsThe hawthorn of the LouvreDistress of BassompierreExpostulation of the KingMelancholy forebodings.

by Occurrences 2%

She thankèd them; and then her leave she took, And flew into a hawthorn by that brook; And there she sate and sungupon that tree "For term of life Love shall have hold of me" So loudly, that I with that song awoke.

to Occurrences 1%

I killed hundreds of them, to no purpose, and at last, to relieve my horse, tied a bunch of hawthorn to a string, by which I swung it under his belly and against the inner side of his flanks.

along Occurrences 1%

In the morning the hawthorns along the fences were found crushed to pieces and drenched with blood.

without Occurrences 1%

What difference does it make if a bush is a hawthorn or not?and anyhow, I know it's a hawthorn without studying botany.

as Occurrences 1%

It would alter England nearly as much in aspect, if the unsparing despotism of pounds s. d. should root out the hedge-row trees, and substitute invisible lines of wire for the flowering hawthorn as a fencing for those fields which now look so much like framed portraits of Nature's best painting.

flowersfrom Occurrences 1%

Take away its history and its song from her daisy-eyed meadows, and shaded lanes, and hedges breathing and blooming with sweetbrier leaves and hawthorn flowersfrom her thatched cottages, veiled with ivyfrom the morning tread of the reapers, and the mower's lunch of bread and cheese under the meadow elm, and you take away a living and beautiful spirit more charming than music.

Which preposition to use with  hawthorn