Which preposition to use with platforms

of Occurrences 256%

The place had been well looked after, for a road had been made through the woods, and had been carried over marshy places on a platform of cedar piles.

in Occurrences 83%

When they reached the hardware store, opposite Cotting's, Mr. West, the proprietor, was standing on the broad platform in front of it.

at Occurrences 72%

For purposes of their own the police kept the affair out of the papers, and when Frank Hutcheson stepped out of the sleeping-car from Paris on to the platform at Pisa a few nights afterwards, I related to him the extraordinary story.

on Occurrences 68%

A hush of expectation fell on the crowded room as the captain mounted the platform on which stood the head-master's desk.

with Occurrences 43%

Standing on a slanted platform with his hand on the throttle, he waited for the lurch that lifted the spinning screw.

for Occurrences 36%

Between themthat Patricia might have her card-game, that he might sit upon a platform for an hour or two with a half-dozen other pompous foolsthey had let Agatha die.

to Occurrences 18%

There was no one there and Mock deftly turned back the hand of the automatic clock over the platform to three-fifty-five.

from Occurrences 15%

Moral certitude was the lofty platform from which he surveyed the world, and upon which, as a rock, he rested in the storms of life.

by Occurrences 9%

The two clog-dancers being quite ready to avenge the interruption of their performance, formed themselves into a storming-party, and carried the platform by assault.

like Occurrences 8%

A railway platform like a terrace in a typical Italian garden, ornate with a row of carved stone vases of perfect form, and vines in festoons from vase to vase, and dark trees behind, and then a downward slope and little white houses asleep in the distance.

as Occurrences 8%

In the early 50's Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, introduced into the house of representatives the first homestead law and the Republican party soon afterward incorporated the idea into their platform as one of their pet measures.

before Occurrences 8%

A rumour had reached the ear of young Hamlet, that an apparition, exactly resembling the dead king his father, had been seen by the soldiers upon watch, on the platform before the palace at midnight, for two or three nights successively.

above Occurrences 7%

Then you climb a villainously long hill and pop out upon an open platform above the city.

without Occurrences 6%

He could stand on the platform without support, the plunges were easy and regular.

behind Occurrences 6%

Then, grasping my bag, I marched up the platform behind him, coming to a halt outside an empty first-class carriage.

under Occurrences 5%

She was glad when she found a little platform under her feet for a moment where she could rest, and also because she had come, not from curiosity to see that gulf, but with the hope and desire to meet some one to whom she could be of a little comfort or help in the terrors of the way.

beside Occurrences 5%

They watched Beth leap to the platform beside Thursday Smith and draw his revolver from his pocket, where he had placed it.

against Occurrences 4%

There was plenty of slate and of coal and of dirt near by, but he could not reach up so high and work easily, and he had first to build a platform against the wall, on which to stand.

outside Occurrences 4%

Happily it was a beautiful warm day, as all the guests invited by the marshal and the Government were seated on a platform outside the Trocadero building.

towards Occurrences 3%

They had, however, lashed themselves to their raft, I saw, and now slowly piloted the great floating platform towards the quay.

along Occurrences 3%

When he came to the trenches, at last, and filed down the narrow communication-trench and into his Company's appointed position in the deep ditch with a narrow platform along its front that was the forward fire-trench, he remembered with unpleasant clearness that instinctive start and thought of taking cover.

toward Occurrences 3%

And he liked the sensation when he leaped from one platform toward the swinging trapeze bar, aiming to grasp it in his hands and swing in a great arc to the other little elevated place, close under the top of the tent.

of Occurrences 2%

FIGURE Carved Seats and Platforms of Ñusta Isppana FIGURE Two of the Seven Seats Near the Spring Under the Great White Rock Our excavations yielded no artifacts whatever and only a handful of very rough old potsherds of uncertain origin.

after Occurrences 2%

There was some one on the farther side of the platform whom they wished to see, and Taylor, not understanding their manoeuverhe was really anxious, I think, not to be left alone with me started down the platform after them, I following.

among Occurrences 2%

Marcos was surprised to see his father on the platform among those waiting for the train from the capitals of the North.

Which preposition to use with  platforms