Which preposition to use with keeper

of Occurrences 534%

Children were playing about in the alleys and broad, open spaces, and climbing on the fountains when the keepers of the garden were not anywhere

in Occurrences 45%

" Tsz-lu, having lodged overnight in Shih-mun, was accosted by the gate-keeper in the morning.

at Occurrences 26%

I was instructed to leave the animals in the quartermaster's corral at Fort Wallace until I should come back, but instead of doing this I put them both in the care of my old friend Perry, the hotel-keeper at Sheridan.

to Occurrences 16%

Upon being informed of this outrageous proceeding, Aúlád, burning with wrath, summoned together his fighting men, and hastened by the directions of the keeper to the place where Rustem had been found asleep.

for Occurrences 13%

" "How did you secure employment as a book-keeper for Skeelty?"

with Occurrences 11%

For if you pay no poor-rates for their support, the shop-keepers with whom you deal pay poor-rates; and must and do repay themselves, out of your pockets, in the form of increased prices for their goods.

on Occurrences 8%

Recently an Austrian countess was shot while working for the Red Cross, and now a cavalry captain and his chauffeur have been killed by a forest-keeper on the look-out for Russian automobile.

from Occurrences 6%

Since it is not considered fair to have the referee or time-keeper from either class represented in a fight, Edgerton and Wheeler, of the second class, were referee and time-keeper respectively.

by Occurrences 4%

A bee-keeper by the name of Shelton purchased a lot, consisting of twelve swarms, from some one at Aspinwall, who had brought them from New York.

about Occurrences 2%

What are the keepers about!

as Occurrences 2%

This latter is claimed by the book-keeper as his property, and I hired it of him to sleep in, and to be alone when I wished to be so.

over Occurrences 2%

Sir William Dale was well acquainted with Sherwood Forest, for he was head keeper over that part of it that lay nigh to good Mansfield Town; so to him the King turned, and bade him take an army of men and go straightway to seek Robin Hood.

into Occurrences 1%

No special effort to overcome their feelings is necessary, nor do such people require to be worked up in order to take the step; but as soon as the keeper into whose charge they are given leaves them for a couple of minutes, they quickly bring their life to an end.

out Occurrences 1%

" The laugh which followed brought the keeper out of the office in his carpet slippers, a patchwork quilt over his shoulders.

outside Occurrences 1%

In two minutes they were in the hold of the refrigerator-ship, gathering the frost from the frigid cooling-pipes and snowballing each other, while the boat-keeper outside of the three-eighth-inch steel plating was fanning himself with his hat, almost dizzy from the quivering heat-waves that danced before his eyes.

without Occurrences 1%

She starts for rehearsal happily enough from the little room in Bloomsbury, passes the door-keeper without question, and takes up her stand in the wings.

round Occurrences 1%

What more do you want?" The efficient deputy towed the saloon-keeper round the bar and out into the barroom.

than Occurrences 1%

The vow she made unto her good man; love, virtue, religion, zeal, are better keepers than all those locks, eunuchs, prisons; she will not be moved: "At mihi vel tellus optem prius ima dehiscat, Aut pater omnipotens adigat me fulmine ad umbras, Pallentes umbras Erebi, noctemque profundam, Ante pudor quam te violem, aut tua jura resolvam.

through Occurrences 1%

He was conducted by the keeper through the windings of the sombre corridors to the cell of Constance, who greeted him with the words: "Now, Adrian, we can excuse wantonness in the devil, but never slothfulness in religion.

throughout Occurrences 1%

They accord to me and my co-patentee, Sir Francis Mitchell, absolute and uncontrolled power and discretion in granting and refusing licenses to all tavern-keepers and hostel-keepers throughout London.

beside Occurrences 1%

The keeper beside them gave a little laugh and looked to the hammers of his rifle.

after Occurrences 1%

I was through it at once and the young shop-keeper after me.

like Occurrences 1%

In many parts of Europe, where the flocks are guided by the shepherd's voice alone, it is no unusual thing for a sheep to quit the herd when called by its name, and follow the keeper like a dog.

Which preposition to use with  keeper