Which preposition to use with huddle
There, to my astonishment, I made him out, huddled in silhouette against the stars, close to the main truck.
Of a sudden, out from the narrow sally-port burst a huddle of choking men, whose gasping cries pierced high above the clamour: "Fire!
" Glancing riverwards, he saw the dirty imp, who had been so wildly entertained by the encounter on the ice, still huddled on his drift-wood observatory, presenting as little surface to the cold as possible, but grinning still with rapture at the spirited last act of the winter-long drama.
These adopted easy classifications; free peasants, serfs, and slaves were often huddled into the lists under a single denomination.
And thus he saw that Sir Gilles' men were few indeed, scarce three-score all told he counted as they lay huddled about the smouldering watch-fires, deep-slumbering as only men greatly wearied might.
Now he got up and walked up and down; he made the fire blaze up; he sat huddled over it until it burned down to a bed of glowing red coals.
From the roof top of the college tower Linforth looked to the city huddled under the Taragarh Hill, and dimly made out the high archway of the mosque.
Like Père Jerome, they had come, through years, to the thick of life's conflicts,the priest's brother-in-law a physician, the other an attorney, and brother-in-law to the lonely wanderer,yet they loved to huddle around this small board, and be boys again in heart while men in mind.
Madame Aubain and the children, huddled at the end of the field, were trying to jump over the ditch.
It was of Jeanie that Avery was thinking as she stood there huddled against the railings while the sleet beat a fierce tattoo on her levelled umbrella and streamed from it in rivers on to the ground.
He did but take what the law allowed, and yet, with men like Jim Holan, or Patrick McQuire, or Peter Flynn, who had seen the roofs torn from their cottages and their folk huddled among their pitiable furniture upon the roadside, it was ill to argue about abstract law.
The rest of the body was huddled with other corpses into a common grave in the cemetery of the parish of St Margaret; so that, at the restoration of the Bourbons in 1815, when Louis XVIII.
The tall grey tower is a landmark at sea, but from the narrow streets of the little town itself it has a disquieting appearance of rising suddenly above the roofs huddled beneath it for the purpose of displaying a black-faced clock with gilt numerals whose mellow chimes have recorded the passing hours for many generations of Sunwich men.
So they reached the old house of which Nash had spokena mere, shapeless, black heap huddling through the night.
He wore a long dressing-gown which was huddled round him as if he were cold, though a fire of logs almost as large as the one in the hall was burning in the open fire-place.
But sixty of the five hundred colonists were found alivesixty haggard men, women, and children, hunger-crazed, huddled behind the broken palisades.
And to me he is a symbol of all the soldiers of Europe, and all the women of Europe who huddle to their breasts their white-faced, sobbing children.
I do not see at first why he cries and then over the hill come the ewes, a dense gray flock of them, huddling toward me.
She shrank into a remote corner of the waiting room and there she huddled until midnight watching the entrances like a child who is fearful of ghosts in the night.
THE NEXT MORNING Ola Serka himself, who was the most distinguished man among the Lapps, had said that he would find Osa's father, but he appeared to be in no haste and sat huddled outside the tent, thinking of Jon Esserson and wondering how best to tell him of his daughter's arrival.
Their last remnants, huddled for refuge in the midst of their morasses, sent a deputation to Caesar, to make submission, saying, "Of six hundred senators three only are left, and of sixty thousand men that bore arms
Tears rolled down the cheeks of the women huddled inside the door before which we stood.
There were no fine houses at that time, and no great counting-houses built of brick, such as you may find nowadays, but a crowd of board and wattled huts huddled along the streets, and all so gay with flags and bits of color that Vanity Fair itself could not have been gayer.
It gave her such an awful sense of shame to see Ann huddled like that.
But, beholding the look in his blue eyes and the smile that curled his mouth, they stumbled to their feet and sought to draw weaponthen Beltane sprang and caught them each about the neck, and, swinging them wide-armed, smote their heads together; and together these men sank in his grasp and lay in a twisted huddle across the table among the spilled wine.