Which preposition to use with propelled

to Occurrences 5%

I am propelled to the consideration of this subject by having optically perceived that ingenious nautical instrument, which has just now flown along like a mammoth, that monster of the deep!

with Occurrences 5%

On our return to the Dolphin we found that she had been visited by two natives, who had paddled off on logs of wood, shaped like canoes, not hollow, but very bouyant, about seven feet long and one foot thick, which they propelled with their hands only, their legs resting on a little rail made of small sticks driven in on each side.

through Occurrences 4%

As we advanced, three natives were seen in the water, apparently wading from an island in the centre of the strait towards Lewis Island: the course was immediately altered to intercept them, but as we approached, it was discovered that each native was seated on a log of wood, which he propelled through the water by paddling with his hands.

from Occurrences 3%

At this moment Steinmetz was pushed aside from within, and a hulking young man staggered out into the road, propelled from behind with considerable vigor.

BY Occurrences 3%

REMARKS ON THE ELLIPSOIDAL BALLOON, PROPELLED BY THE Archimedean Screw, DESCRIBED AS THE NEW AERIAL MACHINE, NOW EXHIBITING AT THE ROYAL ADELAIDE GALLERY, LOWTHER ARCADE, STRAND. REMARKS, &c.

at Occurrences 3%

He disappeared like an arrow from a bow propelled at infinite speed, and his voice no longer sounded in the external air, but seemed in some curious way to make itself heard somewhere within the depths of the doctor's own being.

along Occurrences 2%

The chyle is propelled along the intestine by the worm-like contractions of its muscular walls.

in Occurrences 2%

Striking the air squarely as it does in its forward and backward movement, it throws almost as much air upward as downward, and of course all the air that is propelled in any other than a downward direction represents just so much power wasted.

by Occurrences 2%

Is she propelled by electricityby a battery of accumulators, or by piles of great power that work her screw and send her along at this rate?

into Occurrences 1%

From this it is propelled into any field to be irrigated.

against Occurrences 1%

Mama Lalotte, propelled against her will, sat down, trembling, in the house.

towards Occurrences 1%

Amid much excitement Mr. Burbery was propelled towards the door, being gently used on the way as a battering-ram against his friends who rushed to the rescue, and at the door was handed over to the police.

Which preposition to use with  propelled