Which preposition to use with narrower

in Occurrences 72%

But there is nothing narrow in his outlook: the name of this chapter is deliberately chosen, the whole world is the child's oyster, his interests are all-embracing.

to Occurrences 66%

They had thrown me down across the first rise of the little sand dunes back of the tide sands, and from it I could at once look out over the sea full of the restless shadows of dawn, and the land narrowing to the mouth of the arroyo.

at Occurrences 47%

The coat of the spore gives way, and each portion then emerges as an independent organism, which has the shape of a bean, rather narrower at one end than the other, convex on one side, and depressed or concave on the opposite.

for Occurrences 43%

As we advanced, the alders and willows encroached more and more upon the channel, until it became too narrow for rowing.

as Occurrences 31%

Fold these strips lengthwise as narrow as possible, and smooth the edges down flat with your finger.

of Occurrences 28%

I spoke to the leader of the post, and he was for falling upon them in the narrows of the Rapidan.

than Occurrences 27%

The home intellectual background may vary, but on the whole cannot be reckoned on very much; though in some ways it is more narrow than the suburban one, it is often less superficial.

into Occurrences 11%

The in the earth gradually deepened and narrowed into a[n] .

between Occurrences 8%

But in full face I thought he was narrow between the eyes.

by Occurrences 6%

By moving a lever, the rails upon which the train is advancing are, at a certain place, broadened or narrowed by about the eighth of an inch.

on Occurrences 6%

Adeline watched while the long lines of the beech-trees narrowed on them, till the dogcart swung out between the ball-topped pillars of the Park gates.

with Occurrences 5%

The broad main street, with its rows of trees, narrowed with perspective until it became a gray spot of desert sand.

towards Occurrences 5%

EARSComparatively small and gradually narrowing towards the tip, covered with feather not longer than the ear, set moderately low and hanging close to the cheeks.

through Occurrences 2%

His is represented as being naturally a religious and mystical soul, but blighted and narrowed through the influence of Catholicism.

from Occurrences 2%

By the term contracted foot, otherwise known as hoof-bound, is indicated a condition in which the foot, more especially the posterior half of it, is, or becomes, narrower from side to side than is normal.

beside Occurrences 1%

" Miss Hassiebrock drew herself up and, from the suzerainty of sheer height, looked down upon Miss Beemis there, so brown and narrow beside the friendship-bracelet rack.

beneath Occurrences 1%

Straight at the throat of the chestnut he dived and his teeth closed on the throat of Alcatraz just where the neck narrows beneath the jaw.

toward Occurrences 1%

Matteùccia struthiópteris Fronds two to eight feet high, growing in a crown; broadly lanceolate, pinnate, the numerous pinnæ deeply pinnatifid, narrowed toward the channeled stipe.

around Occurrences 1%

The night was fast closing on the Coquette, and at each moment the horizon narrowed around her, so that it was only at uncertain intervals the men aloft could distinguish the position of the chase.

under Occurrences 1%

It is as if the total universe of inner life had a sort of grain or direction, a sort of valvular structure, permitting knowledge to flow in one way only, so that the wider might always have the narrower under observation, but never the narrower the wider.

like Occurrences 1%

The streets are narrow like those of Bagdad; a necessary evil in Eastern climates, to exclude the power of the sun; but they are even more noisome and filthy.

beyond Occurrences 1%

" The metaphoric 'Angel' of enamored swains is at once so trite and obvious, that both the invention and vocabulary of the lover who abides by it so perpetually must have been poor and narrow beyond anything we can conceive of Spenser's fecundity of language and imagery, if we sit down content to imagine that no more is meant by its recurrence than meets the eye.

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