Which preposition to use with seine

in Occurrences 8%

It was after nightfall when I reached the bridge that crosses the Seine in that neighborhood.

at Occurrences 8%

The scene of the consultation was one of the Imperial wine-cellars under that pavilion of the Tuileries palace which overlooks the Seine at the southwestern extremity of the Place du Carrousel.

to Occurrences 6%

But here is a little treacherous placard, manuscript and anonymous, which takes a much fairer tone: "A convention has permitted the Prussians to occupy the Champs Elysées, from the Seine to the Faubourg St. Honoré, and as far as the Place de la Concorde.

from Occurrences 3%

How majestically it spread out, what fine old leafy trees there were round that bend of the Seine from the State Tobacco Works to the garden of the Eiffel Tower!

on Occurrences 2%

I wanted to cross one day with my boy, that he might say he had crossed the Seine on foot, but W. was rather unwilling.

of Occurrences 2%

Still, as this experiment would be attended with the utmost danger, while, even if he reached the roof, he would yet be far from his object, he resolved to defer it for a short time, in the hope that ere long seine of the bell-ringers, or other persons connected with the cathedral, might come thither and set him free.

with Occurrences 2%

Henry, taking advantage of what appeared an irreparable fault on the part of the duke, invested his army in the hazardous position he had chosen; but while believing that he had the whole of his enemies in his power, he found that Alexander had passed the Seine with his entire forceraising his military renown to the utmost possible height by a retreat which it was deemed utterly impossible to effect.

as Occurrences 2%

Washington's fishing was mostly done with a seine as a commercial proposition, but he seems to have had a mild interest in angling.

for Occurrences 2%

When I had finished it I went to bed, to dream that Gideon Hayle and I were swimming a race in the Seine for five gigantic rubies which were to be presented to the winner by Miss Kitwater.

without Occurrences 1%

She set her teeth and walked; walked across the Seine without a glance at its misted lights blinking through the rain, walked on past the prison of Marie Antoinette, without a thought of that other harmless woman who had loved bright and lovely things while others suffered: walked on upon the bridge across the Seine again.

by Occurrences 1%

Doubtless fish are also plentiful here, but we were prevented from hauling the seine by the remains of a wreck in the centre of a flat of muddy sand at the head of the bay where we were anchored; the vessel, I have since heard, had come in contact with a coral reef, and been run on shore here, in order to save a portion of her stores.

near Occurrences 1%

There is to be found, in the account-books of the city of Paris, a payment to the grave-diggers of the cemetery of the Innocents for having interred eleven hundred dead bodies stranded at the turns of the Seine near Chaillot, Auteuil, and St. Cloud; it is probable that many corpses were carried still farther, and the corpses were not all thrown into the river.

against Occurrences 1%

The surge of the Seine against the stone piers of the bridge could be distinctly heard.

Which preposition to use with  seine