Which preposition to use with nods

to Occurrences 369%

" Darrow nodded to me and drew his principal aside.

of Occurrences 157%

"So you are back again, Mr. Henshaw," he said with a careless nod of greeting as they encountered in the hall of the hotel.

in Occurrences 138%

Then, with a smile and a nod, I left them, and all in the little crowd smiled and nodded in return, though their faces still betrayed their puzzlement.

at Occurrences 120%

"Oh, I'm leavin' the fox-face for luck," Dillon nodded at the Colonel.

toward Occurrences 74%

"A man to see the manager," announced Miss Briggs, nodding toward a quiet figure seated on the "waiting bench.

with Occurrences 69%

He had passed through the village without exchanging more than a surly nod with the inhabitants and gone on toward the House.

from Occurrences 48%

On a nod from his superior officer he opened the ledger and took up Darrow's record.

towards Occurrences 43%

He nodded towards the river as the travellers looked back.

on Occurrences 17%

was a remark that if he made it once he did a dozen times, always finding it greeted by answering nods on the part of his two companions.

over Occurrences 14%

" Mr. Fontaine nodded over his tea.

FOR Occurrences 12%

A POSITIVE NOD FOR ME, OR NOTHING!"]

between Occurrences 6%

Andrew nodded between coughs.

without Occurrences 6%

" Dan nodded without words.

across Occurrences 5%

I urge you to an April mood, for the winds of Spring are up and daffodils nod across the garden.

from Occurrences 4%

It will not stir for doctors, This pendulum of snow; The shopman importunes it, While cool, concernless No Nods from the gilded pointers, Nods from the seconds slim, Decades of arrogance between The dial life and him.

as Occurrences 3%

This attorney, who had, perhaps, never had a compensation case before, was quite a great man, and took the arbitrator's assenting nods as so much cash down.

beneath Occurrences 3%

Here gay description Egypt glads with showers, Or gives to Zembla fruits, to Barca flowers; Glittering with ice here hoary hills are seen, There painted valleys of eternal green; In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.

like Occurrences 3%

Parker nodded, pursing his lips, and kept on nodding like a broken automatic toy.

along Occurrences 2%

Love is quenched; dreams drown in sleep; Ruin nods along the deep: Only thou immortally Hauntest on This poor earth in Time's flux caught; Hauntest on, pursued, unwon, Phantom child of memory, Beauteous one!

after Occurrences 2%

As Stafford returned to the billiard-room, Falconer nodded after him.

above Occurrences 2%

But a tall hedge interrupted his view, and, though he stared long and earnestly, all he could see that day was a pea-stick nodding above it.

of Occurrences 1%

I always make one of the Company I am in; for though I say little myself, my Attention to others, and those Nods of Approbation which I never bestow unmerited, sufficiently shew that I am among them.

against Occurrences 1%

" There must have been a good deal of sympathy between Dab and his mother; for by and by, just as she began to feel drowsy, and muttered, "Well, well, we'll have a talk about it to-morrow," Dab found himself nodding against the window-frame, and slowly rose from his chair, remarking, "Guess I might as well finish that dream in bed.

amid Occurrences 1%

See how the wheat-sheaves nod amid the plumes!

among Occurrences 1%

After the grass was mown, and that field was always left till the last for her sake, she used to sit there and wait for Queen Anne's lace to come up; its tall stems and delicate white wheels nodding among the grasses.

Which preposition to use with  nods