Which preposition to use with hedges

of Occurrences 146%

Set down the Chest behind yon hedge of Rosesand then put on those Shapes I have appointed youand be sure you well-favour'dly bang both Bearjest and Noisey, since they have a mind to see the Devil.

in Occurrences 45%

The serpents, hedged in from the outer line, uproar in blood-curdling masses, their dull eyes gleaming, and their tongues phosphorescent, darting out in their agony.

about Occurrences 29%

Often, as I came down the street and saw the pretty outside of the cottage, waving with creepers, and hedged about with thorns, whose gay berries decked it as if for a festival, I thought of what a good old preacher among the Friends once said to me: "Sarah, thee will live to find shows are often seems; thee sees many a quiet house, with gay windows, that is hell inside.

on Occurrences 22%

We drove about a great dealthe country at the back of Deauville, going away from the sea, is lovelyvery like Englandcharming narrow roads with high banks and hedges on each sidebig trees with spreading branches meeting overheadstretches of green fields with cows grazing placidly and horses and colts gambolling about.

at Occurrences 21%

The nation of the Franks and Charlemagne himself were but of yesterday; the new Emperor had neither ancient senate to hedge at the same time that it obeyed him, nor old bodies of troops to support him.

to Occurrences 16%

Now, when the frost was past enduring, And made her poor old bones to ache, Could anything be more alluring Than an old hedge to Goody Blake?

with Occurrences 15%

A situation hedged with difficulties has been brought about.

into Occurrences 13%

"Well, they took me across their playing field, and over the hedge into the next, and shut me up in this beastly old hovel.

for Occurrences 10%

The unfortunate occupants of the "Main-top," who were still in the position of scapegoats, were hunted round the place by an indignant mob, and fled, vainly protesting their innocence, from one shelter to another, until they finally escaped from the playing field into the open country, where they hid behind hedges for the remainder of the afternoon.

like Occurrences 7%

The level rainstorm smote walls, slopes, and hedges like the clothyard shafts of Senlac and Crecy.

by Occurrences 6%

The merchant set out, but he had hardly journeyed two miles when a shot from behind a hedge by the road side brought his horse to the ground.

from Occurrences 4%

I am not going to take you to the green fields in which the creature which yielded the Veal was fed, or to discourse of the blossoming hawthorn hedges from whose midst it was reft away.

around Occurrences 4%

In the countries from which they came, of course, such torments were the one monotonous means of driving men on to perish in the dead dynastic quarrels of the north; but to poor Will Cobbett, in his provincial island, knowing little but the low hills and hedges around the little church where he now lies buried, the incident seemed oddnay, unpleasing.

along Occurrences 4%

Search the gutters and all the trees and hedges along the road.

without Occurrences 3%

For hours during the day the place slumbers, and a passenger gliding by in the express may well wonder why a station was built at all in the midst of trees and hedges without so much as a single visible house.

against Occurrences 3%

My main object in such conversation would be to hedge against divisions in the Republican ranks generally, and particularly for the contest of 1860.

as Occurrences 3%

And for this cause they haue made in sundry places certaine hedges as bankes within the water, so that betwixt the hedge and banke of the riuer there remaineth so much water, that the women washing may take water without danger at their pleasure.

of Occurrences 2%

I answer that Judge Cornelius Hedges of Helena wrote the first articles ever published by the press urging the dedication of this region as a park.

before Occurrences 2%

Marianne went to meet her friend with a pleasant smile and welcomed her near the hedge before the cottage; then she conducted her guest around the cottage and up the narrow, wooden stairs.

between Occurrences 2%

In the main too he managed very well with the country people, but one day was amused to overhear a conversation over the hedge between two passing contadini.

near Occurrences 2%

The Roundhead dragoons, dismounted, line a hedge near the Cavaliers, and plant their "swine-feathers"; under cover of their fire the horse advance in line, matches burning.

through Occurrences 2%

[Footnote 10: The consummate hypocrite claims the protection of the sacred hedge through which he had himself brokenor crept rather, like a snake, to kill.

towards Occurrences 2%

Farther away from the stream's bank, on the upland lawn and along the hedge towards the downs, the deep purple of the hyacinth and orchis, and the perfect blue of the little eyebright or germander speedwell, are visible even at a distance.

in Occurrences 2%

Early in 1706 he was one of the Commissioners for arranging the Union with Scotland, and in September of that year he was forced by the Whigs on Queen Anne, as successor to Sir Charles Hedges in the office of Secretary of State.

than Occurrences 1%

A Frenchman goes out, upon a managed horse, and capers in the field, and no more thinks of leaping a hedge than of mounting a breach.

Which preposition to use with  hedges