Which preposition to use with moles

on Occurrences 30%

This may or may not be the case; but, judging from the persistence with which the great agriculturist advocates sub-soil ploughing, there can be no doubt whatever that he has mole on the brain.

of Occurrences 18%

"'O my son,' exclaimed I, 'in the eyes of faith and right reason these scars are lovelier than the moles of beauty, and the sight of thy bones is like the beholding of hidden treasure!'

in Occurrences 14%

"He sits in there like a mole in his hole and won't come out," said Kurt "Shall I fetch him?

to Occurrences 7%

So, somewhat cheered, we cast our eyes to the right and left, and, seeing nothing to justify our fears, advanced along the mole to the very end, where it juts out into the sea, with great stones around to break the surf.

from Occurrences 4%

Standing near the lamp, I wrote down on a scrap of paper each event in its proper order, from my first sight of Meeker that morning as I arrived at the mole from Saigon.

with Occurrences 3%

It is called the Chlamyphorus, and may be said to unite the habits of the mole with the appearance of the armadillo.

of Occurrences 3%

They succeeded in calming him; he arrived at St. Louis with the caravan.[B10] The sixty-three who embarked near the Moles of Angel, had a longer series of fatigue to endure: they had to go between eighty and ninety leagues, in the immense desert of Zaara.

by Occurrences 3%

In the front of the inn, however, the stream of life glides fast; and a little past it, the road crosses the Mole by Burford Bridge, and winds with geometrical accuracy through the whole of this hasty sketch.

through Occurrences 2%

But besides such as are Moles through Ignorance, there are others who are Moles through Envy.

at Occurrences 2%

The concrete-laden vessels were duly sunk with a view to blocking both harbors, and every gun on the mole at Zeebrugge was destroyed.

for Occurrences 2%

I am, I think, rather delicately than copiously provided with those conduits; and I feel no disposition to envy the mule for his plenty, or the mole for her exactness, in those ingenious labyrinthine inletsthose indispensable side-intelligencers.

near Occurrences 2%

[The UGLY DUCKLING sits on the hill of a MOLE near the brook which winds through the Moor Farm.]

along Occurrences 1%

Sleep, sleep, lovely white soul; Amid the lilies floats the moth, The mole along his galleries goeth In the dark earth; the summer moon Looks like a shepherd through the pane Seeking his feeble lamp again Sleep, sleep, lovely white soul.

below Occurrences 1%

Besides, he enjoyed her company and the small mole below her left ear and her smell which reminded him of a field after rain.

behind Occurrences 1%

The child was certainly born to be exposed to great dangers,the mole behind the left ear was an unfailing sign,and no precaution should be omitted to counteract its baleful influence.

like Occurrences 1%

The horse-dealer remarked such a strange likeness between her and his dead wife Lisbeth that he might have asked the old woman whether she were his wife's grandmother; for not only did her features and her handswith fingers still shapely and beautifuland especially the use she made of them when speaking, remind him vividly of Lisbeth; he even noticed on her neck a mole like one with which his wife's neck was marked.

above Occurrences 1%

Undine, laughing confidently, took up a hand-glass and scrutinized the small brown mole above the curve of her upper lip.

before Occurrences 1%

That elusive mystery, which philosophers have wrapped in the thousand veils of Greek and Latin words, and psychologists, even unto the third and fourth generation of Freudians, have floundered about in, moles before a dazzling sun, is it to be unwound for our inspection?

as Occurrences 1%

As the French still held the castle of St. Elmo, or the citadel that crowns the heights, that in their turn crown the town, the shipping did not lie quite as close to the mole as usual, lest a shot from the enemy above might do them injury; but they were sufficiently near to permit all the idle and curious of Naples, who had the hearts and the means, to pull off and become spectators of the sad scene that was about to occur.

than Occurrences 1%

But there's more of the mole than the pioneer about my work, such as it is!" Gladwin drifted about the next day like a tired fairy.

around Occurrences 1%

Here is one heading towards John O'Groat's, grubbing its way like a mole around the firths, cutting spiral gains into the rock-ribbed hills, bridging the deep and dark gorges, and holding on steadily north-poleward with a brave faith and faculty of patience that moves mountains, or as much of them as blocks its course.

under Occurrences 1%

The mole under its ear, just at the point where the hangman's knot would strike, had foreshadowed dire misfortune.

amid Occurrences 1%

His skin bad none of the freshness and clearness of Montgomery's, but was dusky and mottled, with one huge mole amid the mat of tangled black hair which thatched his mighty breast.

in Occurrences 1%

"The sweet narcissus closed Its eye, with passion pressed; The tulips out of envy burned Moles in their scarlet breast.

between Occurrences 1%

"'O king, hearing these words of Sudeva, Sunanda washed the dust that covered the mole between Damayanti's eye-brows.

Which preposition to use with  moles