Which preposition to use with prowl

about Occurrences 122%

I'd like to know what business you've got to be prowling about and crowding yourself into honest people's company?'

around Occurrences 32%

" "How do you know?" "I recognized one of them, who used to prowl around the city looking for suspicious characters.

in Occurrences 21%

To provide against an attack by the city brigands who are always prowling in the vicinity of picnic parties, it will be judicious to attend to the following rules: Select all the fat women of the party, and seat them in a ring outside the rest of the picnickers, and with their faces toward the centre of the circle.

for Occurrences 15%

It was ridiculous enough, six strong men prowling for the life of one poor little insect.

through Occurrences 11%

It might be that while prowling through the rooms after breaking into the house, and before he had collected any goods for removal, the burglar had come unexpectedly on Sir Horace, and after shooting him had fled from the house.

along Occurrences 8%

Most of them cannot escape to the sea, and so must face the enemies which prowl along the shore looking for prey.

round Occurrences 5%

do you still prowl round the mill?" said Mathieu.

to Occurrences 4%

He prowled to and fro eternally, till Crowther set down his cup and joined him, pushing a quiet hand through his arm.

among Occurrences 3%

By night the wolves would come stealthily to prowl among the deserted lanes; and the fishermen, asleep in their clothes under caribou skins, or sitting close by the stove behind barred doors, would know nothing of the huge, gaunt forms that flitted noiselessly past the frosted windows.

at Occurrences 2%

Cats prowl at night, by A. A. Fair, pseud.

behind Occurrences 2%

At his left, men were prowling behind the mountains of freight, wishing to cut him off; behind were coming still others to prevent his retreat.

out Occurrences 2%

The hippopotamus floundered in the Severn, the rhinoceros ranged over the south-western counties; enormous elk and oxen, of species now extinct, inhabited the vast fir and larch forests which stretched from Norfolk to the farthest part of Wales; hyenas and bears double the size of our modern ones, and here and there the sabre-toothed tiger, now extinct, prowled out of the caverns in the limestone hills, to seek their bulky prey.

like Occurrences 2%

Through this, prowling like a stealthy cat, I wheedled my painful way, emerged upon a strip of open long-grass, and now was faced, three yards before me, by a wall of acacia-trees, prickly-pear and pichulas, between which and a forest beyond I spied a gleam of running water.

without Occurrences 1%

Fortunately, however, he found a small, tenantless cabin by the wayside, in which he was safe from the wild, noisy beasts, that prowled without.

amongst Occurrences 1%

Hastening back to La Concepcion the Adelantado summoned Ximenes Roldan, who, accompanied by his adherents, was prowling amongst the villages of the island, to appear before him.

by Occurrences 1%

I only came out for a little prowl by myself, to think about father's present!

after Occurrences 1%

"It is better to conceal this; and lest dogs should prowl after it, and it should be found out, when you have read this letter, tear it up.

into Occurrences 1%

He informed the German officer at his hotel: "If you send any spy prowling into my room, I'll take off my coat and proceed to throw him out of the window."

of Occurrences 1%

"Sweet of you to remember me!" He advanced slowly with that noiseless, cat-like tread of his which she had always hated, perceiving in it a true index to his character: the prowl of a beast of prey, furtive, cowardly, cruel.

on Occurrences 1%

In prowling on the track of a party of English settlers, to see what they could pick up, they cameoh joy!on a sack of flour, dropped and left behind in the bush at a certain creek.

over Occurrences 1%

In ranging over these boundless wastes, the eye catches sight here and there of a straggling herd of cattle attended by a lonely herdsman, motionless as a statue, with his long, slender pike tapering up like a lance into the air; or, beholds a long train of mules slowly moving along the waste like a train of camels in the desert; or, a single herdsman, armed with blunderbuss and stiletto, and prowling over the plain.

within Occurrences 1%

This mansion I fancy surrounded by a spacious picketed rampart, presenting its bristling points to the four quarters of the compass, and accessible only through a gateway of ponderous timber studded thick with nails: the whole offering defiance to the grim savage who might chance to prowl within the frown of its midnight shadow.

amidst Occurrences 1%

Praise, praise to Mahmud, who of like renown, In battle or the banquet, fills the throne; Lord of the realms of Chín and Hindústán, Sovereign and Lord of Persia and Túrán, With his loud voice he rends the flintiest ear; On land a tiger fierce, untouched by fear, And on the wave, he seems the crocodile That prowls amidst the waters of the Nile.

Which preposition to use with  prowl