Which preposition to use with locality

of Occurrences 119%

A few nights afterwards two officers swam out to sea across the river mouth and crept up the right bank of the stream within the enemy's lines to ascertain the locality of the ford and its exact width and depth.

in Occurrences 74%

There was a refinement in her aspect quite out of keeping with the locality in which she lived, and he was hesitating how to proceed, when fortune favoured him by driving against his knees a small lad on an ill-directed sled, bringing him almost to the ground and upsetting the child who began to scream vociferously.

for Occurrences 32%

One of those periodical outbreaks of war, which seem to have occurred from time immemorial, for the possession of cattle, had burst forth in the land, and had so changed the relations of the tribes to each other that I was obliged to set out anew to look for a suitable locality for a mission-station.

on Occurrences 13%

This is the district to which Varus is supposed to have marched; and Dr. Plate adds that "the names of several localities on and near that spot seem to indicate that a great battle had once been fought there.

at Occurrences 10%

Neither were they gifted with the intellectual attainments possessed by the inhabitants of the same locality at the present time.

from Occurrences 9%

By levying on Belgium a war contribution which already exceeds £40,000,000by transporting to Germany food, merchandise and various products to the value of more than £200,000,000by seizing and despatching to their own country the greater portion of our raw material, machines and accessoriesby issuing threatening edicts to prevent localities from using the unemployed on their own important works of public utility.

as Occurrences 8%

The tritoma, with its brilliant red blossom, is familiar in most localities as the "devil's poker," and the ground ivy has been nicknamed the "devil's candlestick," the mandrake supplying his candle.

with Occurrences 6%

We say supposing, not being for our own part entirely able to reconcile this locality with the presence of certain cans and flagons, which had been fuller than they were.

to Occurrences 6%

But foremost amongst their requirements was the power of locomotion wherewith to enable them with supernatural rapidity to travel from one locality to another.

than Occurrences 5%

In war danger comes less from conditions of locality than from the enemy's power to hurt.

near Occurrences 3%

The various peace treaties regulating the present territorial situation bear the names of the localities near Paris in which they were signed: Versailles, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Trianon and Sèvres.

by Occurrences 3%

They lent distinction to the locality by getting written up in a Sunday supplement, Willy Woolly being specially photographed therefor, a gleam of transient glory, which, however it may have gratified our local pride, left both of the subjects quite indifferent.

around Occurrences 2%

Of all the localities around Alfoxden, this grove is the one chiefly associated with Wordsworth.

into Occurrences 2%

Can any biography shed light on the localities into which the Midsummer Night's Dream admits me?

during Occurrences 1%

The records of York, Lincoln, and Cumberland counties contain references to large numbers of Irish people who settled in those localities during the early years of the eighteenth century.

along Occurrences 1%

At the beginning of 1625, when a census of the colony was made, the negroes, then increased to twenty-three in a total population of 1232 of which about one-half were white servants, were distributed in seven localities along the James River.

over Occurrences 1%

Roads have discriminated in favor of one shipper over others, and of one locality over others.

throughout Occurrences 1%

The heavy north-east winds which prevail in this locality throughout the winter sweep the snow into long wave-like ridges called sastrugi (sas-troo'-gee), which are always perpendicular to the course of the wind, and which almost invariably run in a north-west and south-east direction.

after Occurrences 1%

He must have been quietly cruising around the country ever since, disguised and posing as an artist, working himself into one locality after another where he could get information that was of service to his fatherland.

Which preposition to use with  locality