Which preposition to use with luggers

in Occurrences 8%

or contrabandiers with the lugger in the offing, and your life in your hand.

of Occurrences 5%

" "You are to tell the truth; we suspect the lugger of being French; and by putting the proof in our hands, you will make us your friends, and serve yourself.

into Occurrences 4%

I made the best of a necessity, therefore, and, shrugging my shoulders, I passed over the side of the lugger into the little boat.

from Occurrences 4%

' 'But you are French?' 'Yes.' 'When did you arrive?' 'To-night.' 'How?' 'In a lugger from Dover.'

at Occurrences 4%

" "Nay, Signore, we have guns of our own and could easily dispose of so small a vessel, once assured of her being an enemy," returned the vice-governatore, with a little pride and loftiness of manner; "convince us of that fact, and we'll sink the lugger at her anchors.

with Occurrences 3%

He was gone missing for a week before, and twice within that week I had sat through the night upon the hill behind the church, watching to warn the lugger with a flare she could not put in for the surf upon the beach.

to Occurrences 2%

I have seen all services, and handled every rig, from a lugger to a double-decker!

than Occurrences 1%

I think you have never navigated as far north as the Bay of Biscay and our English Channel, or you would know that a Guernsey-man is better acquainted with the rig of a lugger than with that of a ship.

under Occurrences 1%

Captain Cuffe was aware that his enterprise had failed as soon as he perceived the lugger under her canvas, playing around the felucca, and the boats held in perfect command.

until Occurrences 1%

All we ask of you is to detain the lugger until morning; then we will see to it that she will never trouble the Italian coast again.

like Occurrences 1%

There does not seem to be any hiding-place along this shore for a lugger like the Folly, after all, Strand.

among Occurrences 1%

What success attended the artifice of Ithuel it was impossible to tell, so far as the frigate was concerned; though the appearance of mutual intelligence between the two vessels had a very favorable tendency toward removing suspicion from the lugger among those on shore.

as Occurrences 1%

He must know as much about the lugger as Yvard himself?" "Quite true, sir; I was thinking of proposing something of the sort, not a minute since.

for Occurrences 1%

In due time we will chase you in the boats, and then you must make for the lugger for protection as fast as you can, when, betwixt the two, I'll answer for it, you get this Master Yvard, by fair means or foul.

after Occurrences 1%

Clinch had not seen the movements of the lugger after dark, in consequence of his retiring to the village of St. Agata, to seek lodgings, as soon as he perceived that his own ship had gone to sea, and left him and his boat's crew behind.

on Occurrences 1%

Of course the Proserpine was on one side of this islet and the strange lugger on the other.

over Occurrences 1%

"A regular-built snake-in-the-grass!" growled the boatswain, Mr. Strand, who was taking a look at the lugger over the hammock cloths of the waist, as he stood on the heel of a spare topmast to do so; "I never fell in with a scamp that had a more dn-my-eyes look!"

Which preposition to use with  luggers