Which preposition to use with shamble

of Occurrences 15%

On every hand there were signs of peacenot a fort, not a breastwork gave token that this was in a few months to be the shambles of mighty armies, the anchorage of that new wonder, the iron battle-ship; the scene of McClellan's miraculous victory at Malvern, of Grant's slaughtering grapplings with rebellion at bay, of Butler's comic joustings, and the last desperate onslaughts of Hancock's legions.

out Occurrences 5%

While Duchemin drank and smoked and pored over a pocket-map of the department, a lout of a lad shambled out of the auberge wearing a fixed scowl in no degree mitigated by the sight of the customer.

through Occurrences 5%

It came shambling through the snow, with bent head and swaying, jerking gait, looked up suddenly and sheered off, flitting uncertainly onward, in the dim light, like a frightened ghost.

across Occurrences 4%

Thus muttering to herself, she shambled across the room to a corner, where she stowed the money safely away.

to Occurrences 4%

A bear had shambled to the edge of the clearing and was standing upright, growling and grumbling to himself, his great paws waving from side to side, his shaggy head thrust forward with a recurring jerk singularly suggestive of a dandy with an uncomfortable collar.

in Occurrences 4%

There was no attempt to soften the refusal, as he turned curtly from the pleaders; and Olympia, shrinking from the ordeal, was about to step out of the room, when a tall, care-worn man shambled in, glancing pityingly at her as she arose, half trembling, recognizing the President.

into Occurrences 4%

"Do you know what I've come for?" he said, as Tudor shambled into the room.

ALONG Occurrences 3%

AS HE SHAMBLES ALONG THREE BRIGHT CENTS FALL AT HIS FEET.

from Occurrences 3%

" He indicated a weedy young Alsatian across the room, a depressed and pimply creature in a waiter's jacket and apron, who was shambling from table to table and collecting used glasses and saucers.

toward Occurrences 2%

There was another bear behind Paul, shambling toward him, unseen by him.

down Occurrences 2%

"It will take a long time to turn him into a soldier," we said when we saw him leave his thatched roof last spring to join up, and watched him shambling down the lane to the valley and the distant station.

on Occurrences 2%

He got up and shambled on his cane close to the table, leaning against it, thrusting his peering eyes down.

for Occurrences 2%

Six months after that, the rot, the infernal rot, had turned my thriving populous pastures into shambles for carrion-mutton, and I had not sixpence of my own in the wide world.

without Occurrences 1%

I have run in such a haste, hearing how affairs stood, that I have left my shambles without a protector.

after Occurrences 1%

and, to my surprise, the bear began to shamble after him as quietly as if he had been following his old master.

than Occurrences 1%

You know, as well as we do, that it would be a disgraceful affair, more worthy of the shambles than of an artist's attelier.

about Occurrences 1%

This leaves 'Nri and 'Seph, who through physical or mental shortcomings are denied the proud privilege, and shamble about in the muck and mud of the farm, leering or grumbling, while Madame exhorts them to further activity from the kitchen door.

Which preposition to use with  shamble