Which preposition to use with pebbles

in Occurrences 41%

Every day he would take some noisy instrument to the lake to startle the echoes; a whistle his father made him served for a time; after that he marched up and down the banks, rattling a tin canister with pebbles in it; then he got a large frying-pan from the kitchen, and beat on it with a stick every day for about a fortnight.

of Occurrences 40%

He was at home, busily gleaning his breakfast among the pebbles of a shallow portion of the margin, apparently unaware of anything extraordinary in the weather.

on Occurrences 34%

What do you thing of that?' 'You may be a stone, and a rolling one at that, said Aylmer, 'but there are other pebbles on the beach, I daresay.'

into Occurrences 24%

"Hither," says Borlase, "come the uneasy, impatient, and superstitious, and by dropping pins[30] or pebbles into the water, and by shaking the ground round the spring, so as to raise bubbles from the bottom, at a certain time of the year, moon and day, endeavour to remove their uneasiness; yet the supposed responses serve equally to encrease the gloom of the melancholy, the suspicions of the jealous, and the passion of the enamoured.

from Occurrences 20%

When he wanted to count, he kept tally on his fingers, or with pebbles from the beach or brook.

with Occurrences 12%

When, therefore, they have been drifted to latitudes of 65° or 64° S., the bottom of the berg just reaches the layer at which the temperature of the water is distinctly rising, and it is rapidly melted, and the mud and pebbles with which it is more or less charged are precipitated.

at Occurrences 9%

Heartily do I throw this my small pebble at the head of the great Sabbath-breaker Schism.

to Occurrences 7%

You swing open the gate and crunch across the pebbles to the door.

about Occurrences 4%

Now if, seeing such pebbles about your town, you inquire, like a sensible person who wishes to understand something of the spot on which he lives, whence they come, you will be shown either a gravel- pit or a clay-pit.

along Occurrences 4%

"Ewans," said Jean, as he pushed a pebble along one of the lines drawn in charcoal on the stone coping, "Ewans, you must find it tiresome to be a boarder?" "Mother cannot have me with her at home," replied the boy.

between Occurrences 3%

He blasted another pebble between two trees.

through Occurrences 3%

The White Rabbit and some of his friends, including Bill, the Lizard, threw a lot of little pebbles through the window, and these turned into tiny cakes.

like Occurrences 3%

Yet I love to see it best when it is lashed to madness in the autumn gale, and to hear the grinding roar and churn of the pebbles like a great organ playing all the night.

for Occurrences 3%

Acton suggested, therefore, that the half-hour before dinner should be devoted to putting things to rights, and to making some small additions in the shape of pebbles for waistcoat buttons, and other trifling adornments.

against Occurrences 3%

He stops, and tosses a pebble against the window-pane.

out Occurrences 2%

But in reality Hansel was not looking at a cat; but every time he stopped, he dropped a pebble out of his pocket upon the path.

as Occurrences 2%

His heart was like the clear pool just yonder across which the sunshine lay and far down in which she could see the stones and pebbles as through so much clear glass; hers was like the rushing stream above, eddying and swirling and hiding itself under its own light spray.

down Occurrences 2%

LUCIE scrambled up the hill as fast as her stout legs would carry her; she ran along a steep path-wayup and upuntil Little-town was right away down belowshe could have dropped a pebble down the chimney!

over Occurrences 2%

At the gate was Prudence Corson, gowned for travel, reticule in hand, her prettiness shadowed, under the scoop of her bonnet, the toe of one trim little boot meditatively rolling a pebble over the ground.

Underneath Occurrences 1%

Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles; See in every hedgerow Marks of angels' feet, Epics in each pebble Underneath our feet; Once a year, like schoolboys, Robin-Hooding go, Leaving fops and fogies A thousand feet below.

up Occurrences 1%

And the ejected pebbles, which are evidently sea-worn, must form part of a tertiary sea-beach, covered by sands, and covering, perhaps, in its turn, vegetable debris which, as it is converted into asphalt, thrusts the pebbles up to the surface.

above Occurrences 1%

The substrata of a cactus pot is ideally composed of pieces of broken bricks at the bottom, charcoal above it, then coarse sand and pebbles above it.

IN Occurrences 1%

THE PEBBLES IN THE STREET

behind Occurrences 1%

I had left this hamlet, and was on the bank of the Tarn, when I heard the patter of bare feet upon the pebbles behind me.

ON Occurrences 1%

ON A HAWTHORN HEDGE PEBBLES ON THE SHORE ON CHOOSING A NAME

Which preposition to use with  pebbles