Which preposition to use with shark

of Occurrences 13%

Did you ever see a shark of half that length?"

in Occurrences 12%

Mr. P. does not wish to sweep his hand rudely o'er the tender chords of any heart, but he wants it known that he is neither to be snapped up by sharks in the sea, or by young women at watering places.

for Occurrences 5%

Hither, then, they came, in ships crowded to suffocation, and many dead upon the way and thrown to the sharks for burial, but for some reason only one of the ships stopped here, while the others went on to Barbados to discharge their living freight.

to Occurrences 4%

" Even as he spoke I recalled that Mr. Cohen's face, in profile, might provoke the vision of a shark to a person of lively imagination.

on Occurrences 4%

Having seen to Jack's welfare afloat, the next thing was to look after him on shore; for though the song says: If love's the best of all that can a man befall; Then Jack's the king of allfor they all love Jack; yet as a matter of fact there are always sharks on the look-out to cheat and rob Jack whenever he has money in his pocket.

about Occurrences 3%

There was sharks about: cruel things happen 'pon the sea.

with Occurrences 3%

Yet it is only a Shark with flattened body, and whose side fins are so large that they spread out like fleshy wings.

at Occurrences 2%

They say Claire's a shark at it, but what's the good of it, if it gets her?

from Occurrences 2%

But I can't stop out here all night, talking about men who aren't worth wasting a word on and haven't even enough sense to tell sharks from flatfish.

as Occurrences 2%

We know that the neighbourhood of the Isle of Sheppey, at the mouth of the Thames, was covered with rich tropic vegetation; with screw pines and acacias, canes and gourds, tenanted by opossums, bats, and vultures: that huge snakes twined themselves along the ground, tortoises dived in the pools, and crocodiles basked on the muds, while the neighbouring seas swarmed with sharks as huge and terrible as those of a West Indian shore.

out Occurrences 2%

They had said noteven leaving sharks out of consideration, and indeed it must be forty or fifty miles away.

around Occurrences 1%

beautifulthe sharks around a whale while flensing is going on, each monster bathed in phosphorescent light, which makes his whole outline, and every fin, even his evil eyes and teeth, visible far under water, as the glittering fiend comes up from below, snaps his lump out of the whale's side, and is shouldered out of the way by his fellows.

among Occurrences 1%

They are the sharks among insects, and in a fight between some sirafous and a shark, I would bet on the sirafous.

by Occurrences 1%

order of the day" A secret overhearer might have followed, by these occasional exclamatory utterances, the course of a devouring trouble prowling up and down through his thoughts, as one's eye tracks the shark by the occasional cutting of his fin above the water.

round Occurrences 1%

The smell of the dead body attracted several sharks round the ship, one of which, eight feet in length, was harpooned and hauled on board.

above Occurrences 1%

At length the declining sun warned us that it was time to take our departure from the cave, when, at no great distance from us, we saw the back or dorsal fin of a monstrous shark above the surface of the water, and his whole length visible beneath it.

under Occurrences 1%

The thin soap slips And slithers like a shark under the ships.

without Occurrences 1%

It would go to his heart to do that, both for the sake of the weapon itself and because he would have to go to his death unavenged, seized by a shark without giving it its death-wound.

like Occurrences 1%

Was it nice, Tuppy, was it quite kind to take the bloom off Angela's shark like that?

Which preposition to use with  shark