Which preposition to use with sapling

of Occurrences 11%

Picture to yourself a canebrake-like woods of fishpoles ranging in size from half an inch to saplings of two and three inches thick and so dense that you can hardly see forty yards even now when the leaves have fallen.

in Occurrences 6%

There are no seedlings or saplings in or about the living groves, but there is always a fine, hopeful crop springing up on the ground once occupied by any grove that has been destroyed by the burning of the chaparral. 4th.

with Occurrences 3%

So Mr. Darren marked some saplings with chalk and said we could take those.

at Occurrences 3%

The boards and saplings at the windows always remained.

on Occurrences 3%

For a time as they plodded up the steep wood-road, overgrown with ferns and rank grass, with dense green walls of beech and oak saplings on either side, what few desultory remarks they exchanged related to Molly, she being literally the only topic of common knowledge between them.

behind Occurrences 2%

One day, just after dinner Mrs. Truly took Lucy and bound her arms round a pine sapling behind the house, and commenced flogging her with a riding-whip; and when tired would take her chair and rest.

by Occurrences 2%

Incidentally, the distribution of saplings by an MLA not only merited a double-column spread, but also a decent photograph ironically, just alongside the news item reporting the tragic deaths.

from Occurrences 2%

When he had again bandaged his feet and slipped them into his shoes, he looked around him, and selected a stout sapling from among the undergrowth that covered the bank of the stream.

across Occurrences 2%

And in six hours, we rolled the trees down to the shore, and did begin then that I lash the saplings across the trees, and thiswise to hold them secure into a raft.

to Occurrences 1%

Choosing among them, he presently found a sapling to his liking.

toward Occurrences 1%

CHAPTER XXIV THE RESCUE Johnnie caught her uncle's hand and ran with him through the little thicket of saplings toward the main road.

towards Occurrences 1%

No one ever looked out of those front windows, or appeared to notice how fast the fruit-trees by the house, and the forest-trees from the glen, were reaching out their arms and sending forth their young saplings towards it, as if to close it in and swallow it up.

without Occurrences 1%

They are consumptive, stunted little saplings without sufficient energy to grow into real trees.

by Occurrences 1%

He grows up before you like the tender sapling by the side of the mighty oak.

for Occurrences 1%

Every little while I looked at Skinny and he was chopping away at one sapling for dear life.

in Occurrences 1%

But his real favorite was an oak tree, nearly twenty years of age and already sturdy, which stood in the centre of the lawn, where he had planted it with Marianne, who had held the slender sapling in position while he plied his spade on the day when they had founded their domain of Chantebled.

like Occurrences 1%

If the spruce had snapped, I would have caught at the end of your sapling like any drowning rator man.

for Occurrences 1%

The way he handled the axe in cutting down saplings for the tent-poles was a delight to see, and his eye in judging the level was unfailing.

from Occurrences 1%

I dared not sit still, lest a sun-stroke should be added, and there was no resource but to hop or crawl down the rugged path, in the hope of finding a forked sapling from which I could extemporize a crutch.

into Occurrences 1%

How would you ever get out?" "Couldn't we drop one of those saplings into it and I could shin up that?"

over Occurrences 1%

He lived in a little cabin out there on the edge of the clearing, and when I went to it to-night there was a sapling over the house with a flag at the end of it.

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