Which preposition to use with rubbish

of Occurrences 67%

the body broken by disease and death, carried away and hidden in the earth, to remain among the useless rubbish of the past, to be seen no more forever?

in Occurrences 21%

I had wrapt up some rubbish in paper, and so, The instant the school-girls drew near, "I presented it with a fine bow to the child,

on Occurrences 10%

I went back to the outer side of the wall, and thence to the edge of the chasm, leaving Tonnison rooting systematically among the heap of stones and rubbish on the outer side.

from Occurrences 9%

Clearing away the rubbish from beneath him, he at last brought to view the carcase of one of his pigs, roasted to death.

at Occurrences 7%

Did you see them do it?" "No," he replied, "I didn't see them going down, for I was behind them; but I saw them go off over the brink, and then I went below and found their tracks where they struck on the loose rubbish at the bottom.

with Occurrences 4%

I tell you my heart was sad when I saw how she swept the street with that beautiful dress and dragged along all sorts of rubbish with it.

to Occurrences 4%

We inferred that if the sum demanded were not sent, the writer might be constrained to cast himself as rubbish to the void.

over Occurrences 3%

He would have done more but for an imperative knocking on the glass, and he left the premises sadly, putting his collection of rubbish over the next garden fence as he passed it.

about Occurrences 3%

"By this time they had reached the inn where Wentworth had put up, and he told the Agent that he would prove that it was all rubbish about the haunting, by staying a night or two in the Manor himself.

out Occurrences 3%

The great wind of the Revolution blew that rubbish out of their souls for ever.

into Occurrences 2%

An angry turmoil indicated that the current had rolled the rubbish into a dam.

by Occurrences 2%

John, however, walked quietly in, and sat down on a heap of rubbish by the ingleside; and William, following his example, sat down over-against him.

for Occurrences 2%

It was for Paris that they had fought their way westwards and southwards through an incessant battlefield from Mons and Charleroi to St. Quentin and Amiens, and down to Creil and Compiègne, flinging away human life as though it were but rubbish for the death-pits.

around Occurrences 2%

Rubbish around the house should be cleared.

under Occurrences 2%

He speaks soft words to persuade; but if that is not enough, he does not scruple to knock the muck-rake out of sordid hands with a fine, sudden stroke, if so he may make men look up from the rubbish under their feet to the flowers that bloom around them and the stars that glow above and the God that reigns over all.

as Occurrences 2%

"I'm glad it's to be a good-looking chap," he said; "not that I think Flora believes in such rubbish as fortune-telling.

like Occurrences 1%

Rubbish like that.

along Occurrences 1%

"Poetry and impassioned eloquence are the only sources from which the living growth of a language springs; and even if in their vehemence they bring down some mountain rubbish along with them, this sinks to the bottom, and the pure stream flows along over it.

down Occurrences 1%

I really don't know how I can get such deplorable rubbish down on paper.

against Occurrences 1%

"Choosing a place where there is a bank of rubbish against the wall, he lifted the sack to the top.

above Occurrences 1%

Estenega turned swiftly to prevent the closing of the trap-door, but only in time to hear it shut with a spring and the priest kick rubbish above it.

Which preposition to use with  rubbish