Which preposition to use with huns

in Occurrences 15%

And that no foreign garrisons were ever maintained for any continuance of time in these parts, appears from a circumstance related by their annalists;[AA] who say, that an inroad of the Huns in 670, when external forces would probably have been very acceptable to the natives, was repulsed merely by a concourse of the inhabitants.

in Occurrences 11%

It was destroyed and sacked by Attila and his Huns in the year 452, and again in 568 by Alboin and his Lombards.

at Occurrences 8%

These anti-aircraft guns are known as "Archies" BelowMen of the 313th U.S. Field Artillery cleaning and polishing 75-millimeter shells, to be sent over to the Hun at night.

without Occurrences 4%

You could not have even Huns without horses; or horses without horsemanship.

of Occurrences 3%

One of China's most notable rulers was Tsin Chi Hwangti, who was studious in providing for the security of his empire, and with this object began the construction of a fortified wall across the northern frontier to serve as a defence against the troublesome Hiongnou tribes, who are identified with the Huns of Attila.

out Occurrences 3%

One of them told me that when his regiment drove the Huns out of his own village he had found his mother disemboweled, his wife violated and murdered, his sister left a maimed thing to become the mother of a Hun, his daughter carried off, and his little son crippled for life! ...

to Occurrences 3%

I wish I could believe I'd get safe back home, with a few Huns to my creditthe Croix de Guerreand an officer's uniform.

of Occurrences 3%

And now we hear he has had blackwater, and, recovering, has resumed his elusive journeys from one discouraged company to another all over the narrowing area of operations that alone is left to the Hun of his favourite colonial possessions.

from Occurrences 3%

[Illustration: An American battery of howitzers ready to fire upon the Huns from the ruins of a town in France.

at Occurrences 3%

A battalion of infantry from the Ninety-First American Division and a battery from the Fifty-Third Brigade, fresh from the beating they had given the Huns at Oudenark a few days before, were prominent in the lines, and shared in the plaudits a liberated people showered upon their own heroic troops.

with Occurrences 2%

He used his right arman' the motions he makes are the ones he made when he killed the Huns with his bayonet.

by Occurrences 2%

The idea is to discourage the Hun by ignoring those conditions or explaining them away.

out Occurrences 2%

LEGGE his self-imposed task of convicting the Hun out of his own mouth ofwell, of being a Hun.

under Occurrences 2%

On one of them, a Jesuit father, by name Dupierreux, they found a note-book containing the following note in French, "When I used to read about the Huns under Attila devastating towns, I smiled.

ON Occurrences 2%

THE GERMAN SISTER HUNS ON TREK AN ENEMY DETACHMENT ON TREK.

along Occurrences 1%

He harried the Huns along the unhealthy districts of the coast, until a patrol, in ambush, laid him low near Gazi.

as Occurrences 1%

The Chinese had for many centuries set down the Huns as uncultured barbarians; but the inferiority complex thus engendered in the Huns had virtually been overcome, because in the course of time their upper class had deliberately acquired a Chinese education and so ranked culturally with the Chinese.

than Occurrences 1%

And then the Reverend Harry Lauder, M.P., Tour was ready to go backnot to safety, at once, but to a region far less infested by the Hun than this one where we had been such warmly received visitors!

behind Occurrences 1%

Don't take any notice of them, but just order a big general offensive; and before you can say Jack Robinson we'll have the Huns behind the Rhine.

for Occurrences 1%

" "He doesn't look precisely meek to me," Annersley had said remembering the answering flash he had caught in those blue eyes when he was begging the boys to get in an extra lick against the Huns for his sake.

on Occurrences 1%

Huns on a charge!

for Occurrences 1%

I was minded to tak' a gun in my hand, and go out to seek to kill twa Huns for my bairn.

into Occurrences 1%

Invasion of the Huns into Italy.

during Occurrences 1%

Noo, it's those same folk, those who helped the Hun during the war by talking of the need of peace at any price, who said that any peace was better than any war, who are maist anxious noo that we should let the Bolsheviks frae Russia show us how to govern ourselves.

along Occurrences 1%

"Then again those Huns along the line would send word back, for they must know what we're aiming at.

Which preposition to use with  huns