Which preposition to use with roll

of Occurrences 880%

It is a strange concept that would bar the business man from the ideal; that would limit his life to an account-book, a ledger, a roll of stocks, rents, and possessions, instead of granting him the freedom of the universe, the privilege of ministering to the race.

in Occurrences 452%

Then from aloft: "Two men rolling in the bottom." "Are they alive?" "No, sir; not that I can see.

on Occurrences 204%

The breakfast-burs he had cut off had rolled on the gently sloping ground into a clump of ceanothus bushes, but he seemed to know exactly where they were, for he found them at once, apparently without searching for them.

into Occurrences 177%

Somehow, as I rolled into my blankets, there crept into my mind a memory of the old gardens, as we had seen them.

over Occurrences 159%

Like the incoming of a great tidal wave at sea is the wave of spiritual insight and religious aspiration that is rolling over the colleges of our land.

from Occurrences 124%

A seal came and looked up at me, big tears rolling from her eyes; then she flippered aimlessly away, out of her poor wits with terror.

to Occurrences 110%

He whirled on his heel to roll to one of the covered yacht's cannon.

down Occurrences 74%

There was no room for a sleeping posture, and the danger of rolling down the rock into the water kept him wide awake.

through Occurrences 64%

Of the human tides which roll through the streets of the cities of the world, none are brighter or more varied than that which fills the streets of Bombay.

about Occurrences 63%

I made out some object rolled about in the edge of the wash.

out Occurrences 62%

Barrels are rolling out of wagons.

along Occurrences 55%

The lightning darted down towards the earth, or across from cloud to cloud, and the thunder boomed and rolled along the heavens, its deep rumble shaking the ground like an earthquake.

with Occurrences 54%

He eyed me thoughtfully, while he rolled with one hand a corn-husk Mexican cigarette.

across Occurrences 41%

Then, while the thunder rolled across the sky, the canoe swerved.

like Occurrences 39%

to that dull sound, like blows upon some soft, hollow, half sonorous substance, slow and measured at first, but increasing in rapidity, until it rolls like the beat of a muffled drum, or the low growl of the far-off thunder.

at Occurrences 35%

The broad river rolled at our right, and beyond it the hills, crowned with verdure, looked down upon us.

under Occurrences 29%

She ran to them, and dropped a hand on the bony shoulder of the Pedlar and one on the plump shoulder of Joe Rix, whose loose flesh rolled under her finger tips.

between Occurrences 25%

She sleeps in the cemetery of Pere La Chaise, among monuments inscribed with words strange to her childhood, while he, after surviving her for sixty-three years, yet never forgetting her, is laid in the ancestral burying ground at Fishkill, and the Atlantic ocean rolls between their graves.

for Occurrences 24%

On the first day of December, Dan Dalzell's name was formally reported by the Academic Board in a report to the superintendent which recommended that Midshipman Dalzell be dropped from the rolls for "inaptitude in his studies.

toward Occurrences 21%

In her own mind, as the train rolled toward Acredale from Washington, Kate was enjoying in anticipation the victory she had to announce to her father.

towards Occurrences 21%

Swiftly it rolls towards us; behind it there is tumult and alarm.

around Occurrences 18%

She was perfectly exposed to the storm; and the wind blowing her dress about her thin figure, and the lightning flashing round her, made her look like Medea alighted from her chariot, or the Sibyl of the tempest that was rolling around her, the only living thing within hail at that moment, except ourselves.

by Occurrences 15%

This attack has been frightfulday after day long lines of ambulances roll by our camp carrying large numbers of wounded.

before Occurrences 14%

Now as he went he stumbled and his foot struck a something soft and yielding that rolled before him in the shadow outout into the full brilliance of the moon, and looking down, he beheld a mangled head that stared up at him wide-eyed and with mouth agape.

past Occurrences 13%

Presently with a great rumble a heavy man came rolling past me, butting with his head at the stair-side.

Which preposition to use with  roll