Which preposition to use with night

of Occurrences 2071%

If I were telling a story for amusement's sake, I should probably place it on that night of nights; but this is a true record of my own experiences, and I would not put pen to paper to amuse anyone.

in Occurrences 1938%

"Look you," he said with decision, "I would not spend the night in that place for all the wealth that the world holds.

at Occurrences 936%

One night at a party in the Faubourg St. Germain, I saw a well-known fashionable woman of the extreme Legitimist party turn her back on the Comtesse de Paris.

with Occurrences 666%

And, in fancy, the tread Of vanishing shoon Out in the night with the Dead.

to Occurrences 475%

We worked hard again; again the master returned at night to his vessel, this time without a word to any of us; again the men, drugged by toil, turned in early and slept like the dead.

on Occurrences 471%

The next morning we started down Stony Brook, towards the Rackett River, intending to pitch our tents at night on the banks of Tupper's Lake, twenty-three miles distant.

before Occurrences 436%

You remember I had overheard the night before his statement of his moral scruples.

after Occurrences 416%

However, the night before-and the night after the operation, he was allowed to remain with her,no extra bed was put in the roomhe slept on the sofa.

for Occurrences 411%

We had a dinner one night for Mr. Gladstone, his wife, and a daughter.

without Occurrences 186%

Not a man nor boy in this Company's service shall go home to-night without his Christmas dinner in his hand!

from Occurrences 157%

The brave woodpeckers were clinging to the snowless sides of the larger boles and overarching branches of the camp trees, making short nights from side to side of the grove, pecking now and then at the acorns they had stored in the bark, and chattering aimlessly as if unable to keep still, yet evidently putting in the time in a very dull way, like storm-bound travelers at a country tavern.

by Occurrences 148%

We tied up one night by the side of another similar craft, that had gone down ahead of us, the people on board of which had landed and built a camp-fire, and erected their tent.

as Occurrences 126%

They have the same short intervals of labour and rest in their long night as their daythe light reflected from the earth, being commonly sufficient to enable them to perform almost any operation; and, ere our planet is in her second quarter, one may read the smallest print by her light.

under Occurrences 96%

We had retired for the night under the cover of our tents.

like Occurrences 95%

"Hush!" said Spalding, "we are trespassing upon fairy domain; the spirits of these old woods, these mountains and rock-bound lakes, are abroad, and well may they carol in their joyousness in a night like this.

into Occurrences 91%

And he must be excused for his sudden night into the regions of classicism.

about Occurrences 63%

Did you hear the good thing he said Monday night about Miss MOORE?

over Occurrences 59%

These most patient and painstaking observers, who employed the highest attainable powers of the microscope and, relieving one another, kept watch day and night over the same individual monads, have been enabled to trace out the whole history of their Heteromita; which they found in infusions of the heads of fishes of the Cod tribe.

through Occurrences 55%

At his request I took the dispatches and rode seventy-five miles that night through the bad lands of the Yellowstone, and reached General Terry's camp next morning, after having nearly broken my neck a dozen times or more.

between Occurrences 53%

" "Wellerjust between ourselves," continued Lieutenant Willow slowly, "there has been a fight to-night between two midshipmen.

during Occurrences 46%

Two of the Trio sided against the odd man, Potts, and turned him out of the Little Cabin one night during a furious snowstorm, that had already lasted two days, had more than half buried the hut, and nearly snowed up the little doorway.

than Occurrences 43%

Will you thus neglect so good an hour?" Now the sun's chariot had gone by the middle of his way; Half wearily he shook the reins, nearer to night than day, And led the light along the slope that down before him lay.

near Occurrences 35%

"We lay down on a hillside for the night near some captured German guns, and until dark I watched the cavalry, some 4,000, come up and take positions.

out Occurrences 29%

It was only the first night out from Anvik, after an unusually trying day, the Boy was tramping heavily ahead, bent like an old man before the cutting sleet, fettered like a criminal, hands behind back, rope-wound, stiff, straining at the burden of the slow and sullen sled.

among Occurrences 23%

They found their tongues again, and talked "Minóok" from morning till night among themselves and with the rare passer up or down the trail.

Which preposition to use with  night