Which preposition to use with populous

of Occurrences 12%

But if you should go impatiently even into the most populous of the groves on purpose to meet him, and walk about looking up among the branches, you would see very little of him.

than Occurrences 10%

{177} When AEacus was king of Thessaly, his kingdom was almost depopulated by a dreadful pestilence; he prayed to Jupiter to avert the distemper, and dreamed that he saw an innumerable quantity of ants creep out of an old oak, which were immediately turned into men; when he awoke the dream was fulfilled, and he found his kingdom more populous than ever; from that time the people were called Myrmidons.

as Occurrences 9%

The future of Palestine, Syria, and Armenia is thus assured; but there are other countriesonce as fertile, prosperous, and populous as theywhich have lost not only their wealth but their inhabitants under the Ottoman domination.

in Occurrences 8%

Whether the U.S. Agent at Nulato was justified or not in saying all the region hereabouts was populous in the summer with Indian camps, the native winter settlements, the half-buried ighloo, or the rude log-hut, where, for a little tea, tobacco, or sugar, you could get as much fish as you could carry, these welcome, if malodorous, places seemed, since they lost the trail, to have vanished off the face of the earth.

with Occurrences 7%

Even so, one day, will lie the pine woods round Asiago, shell-torn and tormented now, and populous with the soldiers of many nations, yet of a wondrous beauty in the full moonlight and the fresh night air.

from Occurrences 2%

That part of the country was extremely populous from early times, and full of well-inhabited hamlets and farms.

Which preposition to use with  populous