Which preposition to use with prods

with Occurrences 7%

At a moment when the shadow of world-war was over the country like a pair of black wings lowering Mrs. Harry Ross, who swooned at the sight of blood from a penknife scratch down the hand of her son, but yawned over the head-line statistics of the casualties at Verdun, lifted a lid from a pot that exuded immediate savory fumes, prodded with a fork at its content, her concern boiled down to deal solely with stew.

at Occurrences 5%

"Can this be a skewer, down here?" inquired he, prodding at some hard, springy object with his fork.

of Occurrences 4%

The word went to Vincent's heart like the prod of sharp steel.

into Occurrences 3%

" Prodded into action, the man stirred limply, and crawled past them toward the mine, while Heywood, at his heels, growled orders in the vernacular with a voice of dismal ferocity.

in Occurrences 3%

As I heard the scream of them past my ear my head went down like a diver, but our sergeant gave me a prod in the back with the handle of his halbert.

under Occurrences 2%

House after house he visited, like some unholy inspector: peering up chimneys, prodding under carpets, and staying a long time in cellars where there was cider.

for Occurrences 2%

When I looked over the hedge, widowTom Lamport's widow that waswas prodding for her nasturtiums with a daisy-grubber.

on Occurrences 1%

You dig on that side, and I'll prod on this.

out Occurrences 1%

When we try to realize what work is, when it is merely an amount of toil prodded out of man or woman by a hard taskmaster, we have only to look back to the bondage of Israel in Egypt, or to the time of Scylla, when there were thirteen million slaves in Italy alone: slaves whose set tasks were of over two hundred and fifty kinds; who worked on the road-building, on public works, and in rowing in the galleys of the slave-propelled ships.

to Occurrences 1%

But now, there was something in the look of the sky and in the feel of the air to make us fearful that the mix-up of the seasons had been discovered, and that winter was being prodded to the front.

between Occurrences 1%

A man on either side of me held my arms, and by way of warning I received now and then a merciless prod between my shoulder-blades from a halberd in the hands of an enthusiastic soul that walked behind me.

from Occurrences 1%

The Dane remained as motionless as a rock when Kazan was prodded from his own cage into the fighting cage.

about Occurrences 1%

Three boys who had somehow managed to crawl across the bridge were prodding about in the canals with bamboo poles.

Which preposition to use with  prods