Which preposition to use with overland

to Occurrences 52%

The Venetians had recently transported a number of their galleys from the river Adige overland to the lake of Garda.

from Occurrences 18%

"J. Dalton, a trader, has used a route overland from Chilkat Inlet to Fort Selkirk.

by Occurrences 5%

Each of these towns asserted its advantages and promised twelve trips a year and connection with Quebec overland by means of walking postmen till a bush road should be cut from Quebec to the sea.

for Occurrences 5%

After climbing in and folding himself up into an incredibly small space, Kaviak managed with superhuman skill to cover himself neatly with a patchwork quilt of Munsey, Scribner, Century, Strand, and Overland for August, '97.

with Occurrences 4%

Mr. Wilson was instructed to proceed in the schooner up the Victoria River, and to establish a camp at the highest convenient position on the bank of the river, while I proceeded overland with Mr. H. Gregory, Dr. Mueller, and seven of the men, hoping, by easy journeys of eight to ten miles per day, to give the horses time to partially recover the effects of the voyage.

through Occurrences 3%

Tom Swift and his sky train; or, Overland through the clouds, by Victor Appleton, pseud, of Harriet S. Adams and Edna C. Squier.

across Occurrences 2%

" The letter written by Clerke was sent by express through Petersburg; that is to say, it was written in the extreme east of Asia in June, and was sent overland across Siberia to Petersburg, and thence via Berlin to London, and was there published in under the six months.

on Occurrences 2%

The attorney-general has sent a large posse of picked men down the river to come up overland on the further side of the fort.

into Occurrences 1%

They pollute the bay of St. Andrews and swell the waters of the Cam, and have somehow crept overland into Birmingham.

in Occurrences 1%

I pointed out the facts that only military trains were running to Melun; that we weren't soldiers; that the river was out of the question; that we had no aeroplane and that we couldn't go overland in a canoe.

towards Occurrences 1%

While he was away on his expedition against the latter place, the royalist Americans round Natchez rose and retook the fort from the Spaniards; but at the approach of Galvez they fled in terror, marching overland towards Georgia, then in the hands of the tories.

trainfrom Occurrences 1%

With a long, triumphant shriek, the flying overland trainfrom the lands of ice and snowfrom barren deserts and lonely mountainsrushed from the narrow mouth of the canyon, and swept out into the beautiful San Bernardino Valley where the travelers were greeted by wide, green miles of orange and lemon and walnut and olive grovesby many acres of gardens and vineyards and orchards.

against Occurrences 1%

Then he hastily drew together his little garrisons of backwoodsmen from the French towns, and prepared for the march overland against Vincennes.

without Occurrences 1%

The weight of these mails, averaging from 12 to 15 tons semimonthly, renders it, in view of the climate and character of the road, manifestly impossible to forward them overland without involving an expenditure which no wise administration of the Government would impose upon the Treasury.

Which preposition to use with  overland