Which preposition to use with pool

of Occurrences 607%

In the summer time the drouth lapped up its waters, and it dried away to a little brook, trickling over the falls, and went winding, a small streamlet, around the base of the hill; sometimes it disappeared in the gravel, or among the loose stones, save here and there a pool of narrow limits and shallow depth.

in Occurrences 103%

Quails, too, seek the shade during the heat of the day about tepid pools in the channels of the larger mid-river streams.

at Occurrences 37%

The Accidents of Life"Some Men Achieve Greatness, and Some have Greatness Thrust Upon Them"A SlideRattle at the Top and an Icy Pool at the BottomA Fanciful Story CHAPTER XXV. Headed Towards HomeThe Martin and Sable HunterHis CabinAutumnal Scenery CHAPTER XXVI.

on Occurrences 24%

" Flack noted that the body was fully dressed, and he saw a dark stain above the breast where the blood had welled forth and soaked the dead man's clothes and formed a pool on the carpet beside him.

with Occurrences 24%

A faint splash, a rippling of the sleepy waters, and, out into the moonlight came one that swam the pool with long, easy strokes; one that presently leapt lightly ashore and stood there to shake down the unwetted glory of her hair.

to Occurrences 16%

Only the stream, cascading from pool to pool, seemed to be wholly awake.

by Occurrences 16%

Up from Aegean caverns, pool by pool Of blue salt sea, where feet most beautiful Of Nereid maidens weave beneath the foam Their long sea-dances, I, their lord, am come, Poseidon of the Sea.

for Occurrences 11%

Fireweed flames about them against the gray boulders; streams are open, go smoothly about the glacier slips and make deep bluish pools for trout.

beneath Occurrences 10%

"There," he said, pointing to a swirling pool beneath some alders.

near Occurrences 10%

Tracing up a small tributary to the Fortescue, at sunset we halted on a small rocky pool near its source, in latitude 21 degrees 41 minutes 40 seconds.

below Occurrences 9%

"You will find the other in the pool below the cascade.

among Occurrences 9%

While those of the high Sierra diminish to less than the hundredth part of their springtime prime, shallowing in autumn to a series of silent pools among the rocks and hollows of their channels, connected by feeble, creeping threads of water, like the sluggish sentences of a tired writer, connected by a drizzle of "ands" and "buts."

under Occurrences 8%

I was fifty-three years old when I drank the water in the little pool under the rock, and I was well aware that at the time of my sovereign's return I felt no older and looked no older.

into Occurrences 8%

Next moment plunging dogs churned the pool into foam, the object vanished, and men ran along the bank to the lower rapid, while those already there beat the shallow with their poles.

between Occurrences 6%

Taking this, Dick dipped up water from the black pool between the green leaves; the hot lips sucked it in at one dreadful gulp.

as Occurrences 5%

At the first water we reached she bathed her face and eyes, and using the pool as a mirror, adjusted her hair.

about Occurrences 4%

Cockatoos and pigeons came in great numbers to drink at the pool about sundown.

beyond Occurrences 4%

The ice outside the bergs has grown very thick, 14 inches or more, but there were freshly frozen pools beyond the Island.

from Occurrences 4%

In a few miles the valley opened out with fine pools of permanent water, covered with numerous flights of ducks, and at eight miles it joined a wide valley from the south, down which flowed a river, divided into several channels, containing many fine pools from 50 to 200 yards wide, which were still running gently from one to another.

like Occurrences 3%

To catch some, you must use a "shrimp-net," for they can dart across the pool like arrows.

before Occurrences 3%

Resumed our route and followed the creek upwards from 5.50 a.m. till 1.50 p.m., when we camped about three miles south-west of camp 45 at the first pool before the atriplex flat.

without Occurrences 3%

"They will graze about the Witches' Pool without watching, so I can take all the boys with me, and the more there are of us the less trouble we will have. Sit down and eat breakfast, Nails, and then tell me about the raid.

within Occurrences 2%

Before a cave within the Gab-ri wild, A seer is resting on a rock; exiled By his own will from all the haunts of men, Beside a pool within a rocky glen He sits; a turban rests upon his brow, And meets the lengthened beard of whitest snow.

off Occurrences 2%

This completely obscured our view of the open water, and the only suggestion it gave me was that the thaw pool off the Cape was much bigger than when we passed it in January and that we should probably have to make a detour of three or four miles round it to reach Hut Point instead of one or two.

beside Occurrences 2%

I do know a pool beside the way!

Which preposition to use with  pool