Which preposition to use with isles

of Occurrences 1048%

France has an Emperor, Prussia a King to lead them; we have a Queen who takes walks in the Isle of Wight; and her sonbah!

of Occurrences 52%

But such has not been the case in the French and British Isles of the West Indies, although in those islands the proportion of the white population is far below that at the South.

in Occurrences 21%

Likewise of the wonderful kings who once dwelt in Peru, and the little isle in the Pacific where all the birds were nightingales and the Tree of Life flourished; and the mountain north of the Main which was all one emerald.

to Occurrences 13%

The chief of the band to which this Indian belonged came to the post and demanded pay for his loss, which he contended was occasioned by the traders having moved from Belle Isle to Forty Mile, thus causing them to descend this dangerous rapid, and there is little doubt that had there not been so many white men in the vicinity he would have tried to enforce his demand.

in Occurrences 8%

On July 8, in the gardens of Kensington Palace, London, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, presented to General Steele, for the Canadian forces, a silken Union Jack and a silver shield, given by the women and children of the British Isles in acknowledgment of Canada's good will and valuable co-operation.

for Occurrences 5%

No Tortugas or Spanish isles for Ninian Campbell. Give him the steeps of Glenorchy on an October morn when the deer have begun to bell.

At Occurrences 5%

A faint smile Parted his lips, as a thought unexpressed Were speaking in his heart; and for a while He gently laid his head upon her breast; His thought, a bark that by a sunny isle At length hath found the haven of its rest, Yet must not long remain, but forward go: He lifted up his head, and answered: "No "Maiden, I have loved other maidens."

on Occurrences 4%

No other Englishman seemed so fit to be associated with the enterprise as the warlike poet, who had twelve years before linked his fame to that of "grey Marathon" and "Athena's tower," and, more recently immortalized the isles on which he cast so many a longing glance.

to Occurrences 4%

Lizard Island, and the Direction Isles to the south-westward, are of very different character to the other islands which front this coast, being high, rising to peaks, and of granitic formation.

by Occurrences 4%

It was clear that the little society had marooned me to an isle by myself.

with Occurrences 4%

Enthroned in light and bathed in balm, In lonely majesty the Palm Blesses the isles with waving hands, High-Priest of the eternal Calm.

off Occurrences 3%

In 1761 he was wounded at the storming of Port Andro during the attack on Belle Isle off the west coast of France.

beyond Occurrences 2%

For this hath Science searched on weary wing, By shore and sea, each mute and living thing? Launched with Iberia's pilot from the steep, To worlds unknown, and isles beyond the deep? Or round the cope her living chariot driven, And wheeled in triumph through the signs of heaven?

at Occurrences 2%

To our remonstrances against the complicated and transcendent injustice of this innovation the first reply was that the orders were reluctantly adopted by Great Britain as a necessary retaliation on decrees of her enemy proclaiming a general blockade of the British Isles at a time when the naval force of that enemy dared not issue from his own ports.

into Occurrences 2%

Have we not converted these muddy isles into a mart for half Christendom, and now they are dissatisfied that they cannot retain all the monopolies that the wisdom of our ancestors has accumulated.

on Occurrences 2%

It has been contended that raids by 'armaments with 1000, 20,000, and 50,000 men on board respectively' have succeeded in evading 'our watching and chasing fleets,' and that consequently invasion of the British Isles on a great scale is not only possible but fairly practicable, British naval predominance notwithstanding.

like Occurrences 2%

Umbrageous woods, green dells, and mountains high, And bright cascades, and wide cerulean seas, Slumbering, or snow-wreathed by the freshening breeze, And isles like motionless clouds upon the sky In silent summer noons, late charmed mine eye, Until my soul was stirred like wind-touched trees, And passionate love and speechless ecstasies Up-raised the thoughts in spiritual depths that lie.

by Occurrences 2%

Suppression of the Lordship of the Isles by James IV of Scotland.

under Occurrences 1%

LORD OF THE ISLES, assumed title of Donald, a chief of Islay, who in 1346 reduced the whole of the Western Isles under his authority, and borne by his successors, and, as some allege, his ancestors as well.

against Occurrences 1%

This was the Irish defiance of the Dutch: the Emerald Isle against the Low CountriesSt.

amid Occurrences 1%

Familiar to the childish mind were tales Of rock-girt isles amid a desert sea, Where unexpected stretch the flowery vales To soothe the shipwrecked sailor's misery.

as Occurrences 1%

Another source of horror to the Right was that Dussoubs had, it was said, passed three years at Belle Isle as a political prisoner, a penalty incurred by the "Limoges Affair."

from Occurrences 1%

Because the meaning isled from sin or folly.

over Occurrences 1%

When the spicy breezes began to blow soft as those of Ceylon's isle over the river and every whiff talked Turkey, the population of Dunderbunk listened to the wooing and began to follow its several nosessnubs, beaks, blunts, sharps, piquants, dominants, fines, bulgies, and bifidson the way to the several households which those noses adorned or defaced.

than Occurrences 1%

I have gained more gold by one lucky shipment of fruits from the isles than by all their night-work.

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