Which preposition to use with hurled

at Occurrences 106%

From the long grass and bushes spears were constantly hurled at them, and not a few of the men were mortally wounded.

into Occurrences 60%

poor little goat hurled into eternity.

from Occurrences 60%

The sun was now bursting up from the Eastern horizon, like a stupendous rocket, seeming to occupy no more than a second or two in hurling from East to West.

against Occurrences 44%

I began to hear the blasphemies, ferocious cries, screams of anger hurled against the cave walls by the men.

to Occurrences 27%

As it swept along, it sent its fierce winds crashing, and howling, and roaring, through the old forests, uprooting, hurling to the ground, and scattering everything that encountered its fury.

in Occurrences 21%

Mother Shipton saw it, and from a remote pinnacle of her rocky fastness hurled in that direction a final malediction.

with Occurrences 11%

David's clear eye measures the length; With hand thrust back, he cramps one knee, Poises a moment thoughtfully, And hurls with a long vengeful swing.

on Occurrences 8%

This battalion, hurled on the barricade at the double, was received by a brisk fusillade; several soldiers were wounded.

out Occurrences 7%

A great stumbling-block to human progress and especially to the proletarian fight for freedom will have been hurled out of the way" (pp. 27-8).

over Occurrences 7%

After frightening the people the Berlin Government struck its blow in the direction of their political ambitionsto the West, and after the Russians had been allowed to penetrate German territories they were hurled over the Eastern frontiers at the end of August.

through Occurrences 4%

The mate had shot the length of the poop at the shock, and had narrowly escaped from the falling mast, while of his four men two had been hurled through the huge gap which yawned in the bows, while a third had dashed his head to pieces against the stock of the anchor.

across Occurrences 4%

The Pursuit of Fire Reader, if by chance you have the habit of writingwhether they be sermons to hurl across your pews, or sonnets in the Springdoubtless you have moments when you sit at your desk bare of thoughts.

after Occurrences 4%

" They shot away rapidly, while the outraged and discomfited fat man stood in the middle of the road hurling after them torrents of blasphemous abuse that soon grew faint and died away.

about Occurrences 4%

The dreadful scene presented him the mother lifeless, pierced to the heart, on a chair, her daughter yet wildly standing over her with the fatal knife, and the old man, her father, weeping by her side, himself bleeding at the forehead from the effects of a severe blow he received from one of the forks she had been madly hurling about the room.

of Occurrences 3%

She had been having much anarchistic trouble before, killing of kings and hurling of bombs.

along Occurrences 3%

But to Lanyard and Liane Delorme, hurled along a road they could not see at anywhere from forty to sixty miles an hour, with no manner of guidance other than an elusive tail-lamp which was forever whisking round corners and remaining invisible till Jules found his way round in turn, by instinct or second sight or intuitionwhatever it was, it proved unfailingit was a nervous time.

without Occurrences 2%

Still the Indian was not dispatched, for the instant afterward his tomahawk, which had been hurled without effect, came sailing over the bushes, and penetrated a tree hard by, some fifteen or twenty feet above the earth, where it entered the wood with such a force that it remained firmly fixed.

TO Occurrences 2%

DURING THE MOST VIOLENT SHOCKS OF THE TYPHOON THE MAN AT THE PEQUOD'S JAWBONE TILLER HAD SEVERAL TIMES BEEN REELINGLY HURLED TO THE DECK, by Mead Schaeffer.

past Occurrences 1%

And, apart from the way in which the boat met the seas, there was a very sense of terror in the air; the continuous roaring and howling of the storm; the screaming of the foam, as the frothy summits of the briny mountains hurled past us, and the wind that tore the breath out of our weak human throats, are things scarce to be conceived.

therefrom Occurrences 1%

I have utterly forgotten the address of the Rector of my time, and even who he was, but I recall vividly climbing up a statue to tie his colours round its neck and being hurled therefrom with contumely.

By Occurrences 1%

Unconscious hurled By winged thought beyond this present life, I seeming woke in a Dark World where rife Was Nothingness,a darksome mist it seemed, All eke was naught;no light for me there gleamed; And floating 'lone, which way I turned, saw naught; Nor felt of substance 'neath my feet, nor fraught With light was Space around; nor cheerful ray Of single star.

as Occurrences 1%

The brick that Terry McGurk hurled as a matter of principle through Froelich's window produced almost as momentous consequences as the want of the horseshoe nail did in Franklin's famous maxim.

like Occurrences 1%

Old pines and spruces, their branches shaved away in the tumult of the slide, were picked up and hurled like javelins over the cliff; a shower of fragments beat on the body of Bull; and then the main mass of snow washed up over the edge of the cliff in a great mound, and the slide was ended.

towards Occurrences 1%

Darting across the yard he spiked the gun at the other corner, and was back at the door as the remnants of the garrison were hurled towards it by the rush of the assailants.

under Occurrences 1%

Graham remained quite cool until he saw a young girl struck from her protector's arms and hurled under the feet of the crowd.

Which preposition to use with  hurled