Which preposition to use with kent

of Occurrences 37%

But they're all men to ride the ford with, if that should come which we ken of.

in Occurrences 20%

Ethelwulf who had been made King of Kent in 828, and succeeded his father Egbert as King of Anglia in 837, was early occupied in resisting and repelling attacks along his coasts, and by several successful pitched battles with the Danish invaders obtained comparative freedom from their visits for eight years.

in Occurrences 16%

He got off with Ken in his power boat in surprisingly short order.

with Occurrences 10%

he queried, squinting toward Ken with a preoccupied eye.

to Occurrences 8%

Not more than three gigantic leaps brought Ken to the spot; he vaulted the wall with a clean and magnificent spring that would have won him fame at school.

on Occurrences 8%

It flickered out in Dom Sebastian, who dragged his country into a mad invasion of Morocco and vanished from human ken on the disastrous battlefield of Alcazar-Khebir.

for Occurrences 8%

Now it was in their hands that the money collected throughout Kent for the building and fencing of the coast against the sea had always been placed.

at Occurrences 6%

At 8 in the morning several of the enemy's shot struck the Kent at the same time; one entered near the foremast, and set fire to two or three 32-pound cartridges of gunpowder, as the boys held them in their hands ready to charge the guns.

about Occurrences 4%

"What do you ken about them?"

at Occurrences 4%

"But at a price, ye ken at a price!

for Occurrences 4%

He cast up-river in search of it and disappeared from civilised ken for seven merciful years.

as Occurrences 4%

These praised the marriage, but counselled Hengist to give the damsel only on such covenant that the king should deliver him Kent as her dowry.

of Occurrences 4%

Some of the young men, indeed, showed signs of affecting my society, including that Mr. Kent of Gracedieu who had been stripped by Ringan.

with Occurrences 4%

ngs, the famous Danish chief, having ravaged all the provinces of France, both along the seacoast and the Loire and Seine, and being obliged to quit that country, more by the desolation which he himself had occasioned, than by the resistance of the inhabitants, appeared off the coast of Kent with a fleet of 330 sail.

as Occurrences 3%

" Later events, however, convinced me that I swam never in Solon's ken as a rival for her smiles.

from Occurrences 2%

Of Byron's two contemporary rivals, Wordsworth had no feverish blood; nothing drove him to the world without; consequently his "eyes avert their ken from half of human fate," and his influence, though perennial, will always be limited.

by Occurrences 2%

KENT, ROCKWELL. Alias Kent by Hogarth, Jr. Authors: Lucy Eugenia Osborne & others.

during Occurrences 2%

Indeed, when I was once in Kent during "hopping," and saw that the women who resided in the neighborhood always gave up half a day's work weekly for the purpose of going home to bake, I used to wonder why they did not purchase their bread from a baker in the village.

to Occurrences 2%

I had selected the southern counties from Kent to Cornwall for it.

before Occurrences 1%

" The great suit between Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury and Odo as Earl of Kent, which is perhaps the best reported trial of the reign, was tried in the county court of Kent before the King's representative, Gosfrid, bishop of Coutances; whose presence and that of most of the great men of the kingdom seem to have made it a witenagemot.

from Occurrences 1%

And for the sake o' goodness gracious, where's your wheel?" "'Turn, turn, my wheel,'" quoted Kent from the Fourth Reader.

across Occurrences 1%

As for the gun, we took it in fair fight, and as' At a sign from Hartmann, Achmet, the corporal, struck Ken across the mouth.

into Occurrences 1%

Brookland, hard to get at, stands on the great road which runs south- westward out of the Marsh and brings you at last out of Kent into Sussex at Rye.

on Occurrences 1%

Chancellor Kent on Moral Obligations in Law and in Equity.

out Occurrences 1%

"I have the final word from Boston," said the ex-manager, when he had walked Kent out of earshot of the train-takers.

Which preposition to use with  kent