Which preposition to use with mails

from Occurrences 79%

| Single Copies, for sale by all newsmen, (or mailed from this | | office, free,) Ten Cents.

to Occurrences 56%

Either of the above sent free by mail to any address on | | receipt of the price.

of Occurrences 44%

One day in March a warm south-wind "quieted the earth" after a long rain, the river began to stir, its mail of ice to crack and heave under the sun's rays.

in Occurrences 40%

" But even as the doctor spoke, there came a sudden clatter of horses' hoofs and a jingle of iron mail in the courtyard below.

for Occurrences 37%

He had made a contract early in the winter to go to Dawson and bring down the mail for Minóok.

at Occurrences 31%

"That won a suit of triple mail at Dunismere joust, and wagered it 'gainst Black Ivo's roan stallion within Deepwold forest upon a time.

on Occurrences 31%

| | | | Circulars sent on application; or, Book sent free by | | mail on receipt of price, $2.95.

with Occurrences 14%

See you the little man yonder, in half-mail with sword as great as himselfhe that pipeth shrill-voiced as a boy?

between Occurrences 9%

Returning the knight a tremendous cuff, it seized his coat of mail between breast and shoulder, and tore away a great strip of it down to the girdle, leaving the skin bare.

as Occurrences 8%

" "Not so, messire," sighed the rueful knight, "for when I chance to meet a gentle youth, young and well beseenas thou, bedight in goodly mail as thou, with knightly sword on thigh, why then, messire, 'tis ever my wont to declare unto him that she I honour is fairer, nobler, and altogether more worthy and virtuous than any other she soever, and to maintain that same against him, on horse or afoot, with lance, battle-axe or sword.

by Occurrences 7%

Our postmaster thought he was not allowed to send the mails by such a conveyance.

under Occurrences 6%

In the night of September 14, 1485, one of the inquisitors, Pedro Arbues, covered as usual with a coat of mail under his robes, and wearing a steel skull-cap under his hatfor he was every moment conscious of guilt and apprehensive of retributiontook a lantern in one hand and a bludgeon in the other; and, like a sturdy soldier of his peculiar Church, walked from his house to the cathedral of that same Saragossa, to join in matins.

without Occurrences 6%

Two were fired at but the balls glanced off their tough coats of mail without hurting or scarcely frightening them.

into Occurrences 4%

'Twas a malamute first scaled the Chilkoot At the time of the great Klondike charge; 'Twas a malamute first saw Lake Bennett And left his footprints at La Barge; They hauled the first mail into Dawson, That Land of the Old Timer's dream, And when Wada first drove in from Fairbanks He was driving a malamute team.

across Occurrences 3%

Bridle and mail across his shoulders hung.

about Occurrences 2%

"Don't you remember what you read in the Daily Mail about the robbery at your offices in Victoria Street?

after Occurrences 2%

If you don't get a letter next mail after this it will mean either that we are entirely out of the reach of post offices, or that a tiger has eaten the dâk-runner.

than Occurrences 2%

I had rather hide this sconce of mine in a hood of mail than in the mitre of a lord bishopnolo episcopare, good brother!

through Occurrences 2%

Formerly he had carried the mail through the desert, a fine rider and brave man, but sharab had loosened the thigh in the saddle and palsied hand and eye.

within Occurrences 2%

The transportation of the mail within five years past has been greatly extended, and the expenditures of the Department proportionably increased.

against Occurrences 1%

Mike, when masters waxed sarcastic toward him, always assumed an air of stolid stupidity, which was as a suit of mail against satire.

throughout Occurrences 1%

The object is the transportation of the mail throughout the United States, which may be done on horseback, and was so done until lately, since the establishment of stages.

during Occurrences 1%

Some of these questions may be sent in by mail during the week, but the greater part of them are handed to the pastor by the ushers.

beneath Occurrences 1%

Then Robin saw, what he had not wotted of before, that the Friar had also a coat of chain mail beneath his gown.

underneath Occurrences 1%

Don Gil was not a man to live long in the pleasant little Provençal court; like a good archbishop of Toledo, he wore the coat-of-mail underneath his tunic, and as there were no Moors to fight he wished to strike at heretics instead.

Which preposition to use with  mails