Which preposition to use with primrose

in Occurrences 10%

Mr. Croker (Croker's Boswell, p. 331) prints an autograph letter from Flora Macdonald which shows that Lady Primrose in 1751 had lodged £627 in a friend's hands for her behoof, and that she had in view to add more.

by Occurrences 7%

He satirizes those who could do nothing more than correctly apply the color "yellow" to the primrose: "A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him

at Occurrences 6%

Meanwhile, of afternoons we pick up primroses at Dalston, and Mary corrects me when I call 'em cowslips.

of Occurrences 5%

Her long black hair fell on the grass, and among itlike an early starwas the first primrose of the year.

to Occurrences 3%

A well-known legend relates how "Bertha" entices some favoured child by exquisite primroses to a doorway overgrown with flowers.

as Occurrences 3%

Seldom, indeed, would she indulge in the pleasure of vocal music, but when she did, as was sometimes the case to please the Countess of Smatterton, her ladyship, who was a most excellent judge, used invariably to pronounce Miss Primrose as the finest and purest singer that she had ever heard.

on Occurrences 3%

Or if one absorb oneself upon the floraa primrose on the river's brimit shows him clear and stainless.

with Occurrences 2%

Considerably in the background, too, were the grotesque performances of his rural life, when, making up for the character of a country gentleman, he "rode an Arabian mare for thirty miles across country without stopping," attended Quarter Sessions in drab breeches and gaiters, and wandered about the lanes round Hughenden pecking up primroses with a spud.

for Occurrences 2%

I'll take a tuft of these primroses for Mr. Bradford, and play they grew wild.

from Occurrences 1%

The horehound comes through the fence and under it, shouldering the pickets off the railings; the brier rose mines under the horehound; and no care, though I own I am not a close weeder, keeps the small pale moons of the primrose from rising to the night moth under my apple-trees.

against Occurrences 1%

But above, the cloud-procession passed on, shattered by its contact with the mountain, and transfigured as it neared the setting sun into long upward streaming lines of rack, purple and primrose against a saffron sky, while Venus lingered low between cloud and sea, a spark of fire glittering through dull red haze.

among Occurrences 1%

" Then, while the children still ran about, seeking early primroses among the mosses, Mathieu came and sat down beside Marianne, who, he saw, was quivering.

about Occurrences 1%

I felt a pressure at my back; a man had placed a ladder against it; he mounted and hung a large wreath of primroses about my neck.

under Occurrences 1%

"The scent of the gorse on the moors drove me wild, and the primroses under the hedges.

Which preposition to use with  primrose