Which preposition to use with niles

to Occurrences 17%

You can read for yourself from the reproduction of the last page of his diary, written on the 14th December, 1884, his own estimate of the length of time he could hold out; and, though he managed to keep back the enemy for another month, yet on the 26th January, 1885, whilst yet Sir Charles Wilson and the British troops were fighting their way up the river Nile to his relief, Khartoum fell.

of Occurrences 10%

Famine, the result of the exceptionally low Nile of 967, added to the misery of the country; plague, as usual, followed in the steps of famine; over six hundred thousand people died in and around Fustat, and the wretched inhabitants began in despair to migrate to happier lands.

from Occurrences 9%

Egypt, properly so called, may be described as consisting of the long and narrow valley which follows the course of the Nile from Syene (Assooan) to Cairo, near the site of the ancient Memphis.

in Occurrences 9%

" Many rivers I deny not are muddy still, white, thick, like those in China, Nile in Egypt, Tiber at Rome, but after they be settled two or three days, defecate and clear, very commodious, useful and good.

with Occurrences 5%

It is a curious fact, that, in 1829, during our late visit to the old world, I ascended the Nile with General Ducie for a travelling companion.

by Occurrences 5%

It was not as the land of Egypta land which was, humanly speaking, sure to be fertile, because always supplied with water, brought out of the Nile by dykes and channels which spread in a network over every field, and whereas I believe is done nowthe labourer turned the water from one land to the other simply by moving the earth with his foot.

at Occurrences 4%

It is frequently of a red colour, and charged with slime like the Nile at the period of its inundations.

on Occurrences 3%

The royal city is surrounded with walls, but Misraim is entirely open, having the river Nile on one side.

into Occurrences 2%

for example, converting the Nile into blood!

through Occurrences 2%

How easily shall we then trace the Nile through all its passage; pass over to distant regions, and examine the face of nature, from one extremity of the earth to the other!

after Occurrences 1%

And they respond like the fields that border the Nile after the annual flood.

for Occurrences 1%

By their unexampled skill in turning to account the fertile valley of the Nile for the direct benefit of the treasury, and by a financial systemequally sagacious and unscrupulous earnestly and adroitly calculated to foster material interests, the court of Alexandria was constantly superior to its opponents even as a moneyed power.

above Occurrences 1%

At Sobat, situated on the Nile above Khartoum, he established a station, and had a watch kept on passing ships to see that no slaves were conveyed down the river.

as Occurrences 1%

The brutish gods of Nile as fast Isis and Orus and the dog Anubishaste.

against Occurrences 1%

Prosper Altinus and some others as much magnify the water of Nile against this malady, an especial good remedy for windy melancholy.

opposite Occurrences 1%

[-41-] Meanwhile Mithridates, named the Pergamenian, undertook to ascend with his ships the mouth of the Nile opposite Pelusium; but when the Egyptians barred his entrance with their boats he betook himself by night to the canal, hauled the ships over into it (it was one that does not open into the sea), and through it sailed up into the Nile.

Which preposition to use with  niles