Which preposition to use with saplings

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.

at Occurrences 3%

The boards and saplings at the windows always remained.

with Occurrences 3%

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

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.

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.

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.

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?"

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.

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.

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.

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.

without Occurrences 1%

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

Which preposition to use with  saplings