Which preposition to use with roar

of Occurrences 1144%

In the same second of time, the world-noise was drowned in the roar of the wind, and then my ears ached, under the stunning impact of the thunder.

with Occurrences 126%

The Boy roared with delight.

in Occurrences 107%

And, when my lusty fellows sought to apprehend me this rogue, he smote them dolefully and roared in hideous fashion 'Arise Pentavalon!'

like Occurrences 93%

Slipping from the heights, gathering in avalanches, it booms and roars like thunder, and makes a glorious show as it sweeps down the mountain-side, arrayed in long, silken streamers and wreathing, swirling films of crystal dust.

from Occurrences 53%

There is a dull roar from the elevated railway on Third Avenue where the last of the day's crowd goes home.

at Occurrences 51%

There was a roar at the expense of Garrick.

for Occurrences 33%

And he gave the Tanner a crack that made him roar for all his coughing.

on Occurrences 30%

And in contrast with the sound of the city, here was no sound at all, except the low roar on either side, and a vague cry or two from the openings of the mine,a scene all drawn in darkness, in variations of gloom, deriving scarcely any light at all from the red and gloomy burning of that distant evening sky.

through Occurrences 29%

There are no perpendicular falls of more than twenty feet, but the water goes plunging, and boiling, and foaming down shelving rocks, and eddying, and whirling around immense boulders, rushing and roaring through the gorges with a voice like thunder.

over Occurrences 18%

CHAPTER XII Next day was one of the rare, blistering-hot days with a furnace wind that roared over the wheat-fields.

about Occurrences 17%

Help us ter steal away ter Jesus, when de storm cloud hangs low and de billows roar about our heads.

as Occurrences 13%

And now O'Flynn, roaring as usual, had broken away from those who had obstructed his progress, and had flung himself upon the Colonel.

down Occurrences 13%

And TOM went roaring down the street.

to Occurrences 10%

And yet these men despise everybody, talk absurdly of the gods, and drawing in a number of credulous boys, roar to them in a tragical style about virtue, and enter into disputations that are endless and unprofitable.

into Occurrences 10%

A north bound train roared into the station.

among Occurrences 7%

There are gusty, windy, capricious days in autumn, which nobody cares to praise, when the northwest wind goes sweeping over the forest, roaring among the trees, and whirling the sere leaves along the ground, and which, to tell the truth about them, are anything but pleasant.

along Occurrences 7%

"Yes; it is the water roaring along the brook.

against Occurrences 5%

Swift is the storm, roaring against the ice and frost of the late spring of English life.

above Occurrences 5%

"Why, it goes on still," the Boy roared above the din.

around Occurrences 5%

The wind raged and the storm roared around the Black Creek Stopping- House all that night, but inside the fire burned bright in the box- stove, and an interested and excited group sat around the table where Rance Belmont and John Corbett played the game!

round Occurrences 5%

When Bennen saw the snow slip, heard its thunder Low, louder, roaring round him, felt the speed Growing swifter as the avalanche hurled downward, Did he for just one heart-throbdid he indeed Know with all certainty, as they swept onward, There was the end, where the crag dropped away?

out Occurrences 5%

In two minutes more it would have been aboard of them, when in a moment Captain Morgan roared out of a sudden to the man at the helm to put it hard a starboard.

across Occurrences 5%

But inshore the great waves rolled smoothly, swiftly then suddenly fell forward as over a ledge, and spread with a roar across the yellow sands.

by Occurrences 4%

The noise of the city was behind me, softened into an indefinite roar by distance, and before me stretched out the dreary landscape in which there seemed no features of attraction.

between Occurrences 4%

Oh! when the bitter showers her path assail, And roars between the hills the torrent gale, 1793. ...

Which preposition to use with  roar