Which preposition to use with neighborhoods

of Occurrences 612%

These blows were given at intervals so regular, that we all suspended smoking, certain that there were other sportsmen beside ourselves in the neighborhood of this lake.

in Occurrences 27%

Such a hospital exists in this neighborhood in the building of a normal college, where every corner is used in housing wounded men.

with Occurrences 23%

Word of our presence had got about the neighborhood with singular speed, and the people flocked in by dozens, until the great hallway, which ran through the house from front to rear, was crowded from end to end.

to Occurrences 21%

I thought I saw, as in the vision of light, as if a people would be gathered in that neighborhood to the knowledge of the truth.

for Occurrences 16%

She is only an hour's distance away from you and is probably going to stay in this neighborhood for a few weeks.

as Occurrences 12%

Let me hear that you have clambered up to Lover's Seat; it is as fine in that neighborhood as Juan Fernandez,as lonely, too, when the fishing-boats are not out; I have sat for hours staring upon a shipless sea.

at Occurrences 8%

The city takes its name from a village which stood in the neighborhood at the time the East India Company located there.

on Occurrences 7%

But Robert, having obtained Devizes, refused to admit the Earl of Gloucester to any advantage of its possession, and commenced the subjection of the neighborhood on his own account.

by Occurrences 6%

A little way within the garden-gate there is a circular temple of Grecian architecture, beneath the dome of which stands a marble statue of the good Doctor, very well executed, and representing him with a face of fussy activity and benevolence: just the kind of man, if luck favored him, to build up the fortunes of those about him, or, quite as probably, to blight his whole neighborhood by some disastrous speculation.

during Occurrences 4%

They are remarkable for the pearl fishery, which is carried on in their neighborhood during the months of June, July, and August; a fishery which, in the sixteenth century, was estimated at 500,000 ducats.

from Occurrences 4%

My fiancé has inherited an estate in this neighborhood from the Jazlowieckis, and came, as you know, from far off.

without Occurrences 4%

By the slave code it was unlawful for a slave to go beyond the limits of his own neighborhood without the written permission of his master.

into Occurrences 3%

By thinking, we pass from the gossip of the neighborhood into the conversation of the years.

like Occurrences 2%

Roofs were torn off, streets strewn with broken glass and brick; yet it is in such houses and their cellars that soldiers fighting in the trenches in a neighborhood like this come back for a rest, dismal little islands which mask the armies one does not see at the front.

near Occurrences 2%

In a somewhat sparsely settled neighborhood near Central Georgia, known as Social Circle, a dozen cases of cancer alone can, in one form or another, be found, and that is one of the most salubrious sections in all the southern country.

throughout Occurrences 2%

The gulls, and particularly that cosmopolite, the herring gull, are met with in this neighborhood throughout the year, though in summer most of them go farther north to breed.

under Occurrences 2%

Soon after he left Bordeaux, a great awakening took place in that neighborhood under the ministry of his successor, while with himself at Paris all seemed darkness and discouragement.

out Occurrences 1%

No one could have dreamed that the tall, homely man, dashing in and out in his shirt-sleeves between the rooms and the moving-van drawn up at the curb, had come down with the deliberate purpose of making a neighborhood out of a chaos, of organizing that jumble of scattered polyglot lives....

over Occurrences 1%

Remaining in the town and neighborhood over the Sabbath, he appeared extremely restless in the house in which he resided, during the whole of Monday.

around Occurrences 1%

With its own corn-mill, saw-mill, and smithery, each plantation is almost independent of the neighborhood around it.

before Occurrences 1%

It isn't necessary for any one to be long in the neighborhood before finding out what those two are doing.

toward Occurrences 1%

While it is the ardent desire of the United States to cultivate the relations of peace with all nations and to fulfill all the duties of good neighborhood toward those who possess territories adjoining their own, that very desire would lead them to deny the right of any foreign power to invade their boundary with an armed force.

towards Occurrences 1%

I was extremely pleased, as we rid along, to observe the general benevolence of all the neighborhood towards my friend.

along Occurrences 1%

A new settlement had gradually sprung up in the neighborhood along the river Humacáo and was beginning to prosper, but it was also doomed.

until Occurrences 1%

In early life he became enamoured of learning, and commenced teaching a private school in the family mansion in the winter of 1840, when only seventeen years old, and continued to teach in the neighborhood until 1851, when he was appointed Clerk to the County Commissioners and removed to Elkton.

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