Which preposition to use with loiterings

in Occurrences 7%

No more loitering in my lady's bower; Jack, my boy, the carpet will be clear for your knightly pranks after to-night.

about Occurrences 5%

Refilling a Sarsaparilla bottle, for instance, or getting up a masquerade ball or going fishing or playing on Sunday or loitering about a building to overhear what people are talking about inside" "That's no crime," protested the captain scornfully.

on Occurrences 5%

The river steamers had stopped running, and there were crowds of flaneurs loitering on the quais and bridges wondering if the cold would last long enough for the river to be quite frozen over.

along Occurrences 3%

That from myriad spicy cups distils, Loitering along o'er the locust-trees.

by Occurrences 3%

After wandering and loitering by rivers too well fed by the mountains to dry completely up like the perfidious little Alzou, I have returned to Roc-Amadour, my headquarters, the summer being far advanced.

of Occurrences 2%

It is to three of these chance loiterings of this Kipling of Rome in its decadence that we owe the famous stories alluded to above.

through Occurrences 2%

There are many on the continent who might far better have been treading their turnip-fields, or superintending their warehouses at home, than traversing the Alps, criticising the Pantheon, or loitering through the galleries of the Vatican.

under Occurrences 2%

Treading the expanse of daisy-starred emerald lawns, loitering under the elms in the Band Concourse, or wandering through the dwarf trees patterned against humpback bridges in the Japanese Tea Garden, you find new lures in Golden Gate Park with each successive visit.

than Occurrences 2%

When you have finished the discussion, repeat it immediatelyand with no more loitering than before.

for Occurrences 2%

Mrs. Hamilton's sons had been trained to obedience, and James never thought of lingering and loitering for half an hour, as I have seen some boys do, after being told to go.

amidst Occurrences 1%

I would dilate upon my noon-day loiterings amidst wild ruins, and thick forests, and on the shaded banks of riversthe pic-nic partiesthe gipsy propheciesthe twilight homeward walkthe social tea-drinking, and, the last scene of all, the "rosy dreams and slumbers light," induced by wholesome exercise and placid thoughts.[050]

beside Occurrences 1%

In the court, however, he ran across Ah Pat, loitering beside a lantern.

during Occurrences 1%

It is needless to say that this stint was sufficiently large to allow of no loitering during the entire day.

near Occurrences 1%

"And she always says 'diddy-you' instead of 'dij-you,'" broke in my namesake, who, loitering near us, had overheard the name of Mrs. Potts.

with Occurrences 1%

His cross-bow was laid aside, and he seldom or never joined the other boys of the village in their games of running and wrestling, nor did he follow the hunters to the chase on the hills as he had been accustomed to do, or spend time in loitering with his net along the river side.

over Occurrences 1%

So the feast passed merrily, and never had that inn seen such lusty feeders as these four stout fellows; but at last they were done their eating, though it seemed as though they never would have ended, and sat loitering over the sack.

around Occurrences 1%

Looking about for some one to help him, Mr. Graham saw a tall stranger loitering around the polling place, and called to him, "Can you write?"

Which preposition to use with  loiterings