Which preposition to use with shed

in Occurrences 108%

They continued to congregate nightly on that long shed in the rear of my rooms.

for Occurrences 99%

Do not, I beseech you, refuse me these tears, reflecting that your estate is unstable as well as mine, and that, should it ever come to resemble mine (the which may God forfend!), the tears that others shed for you will be pleasing to you in return.

on Occurrences 81%

I cannot but regret that no light is shed on this point.

at Occurrences 49%

That night, long after the rest of the house were asleep, the Triple Alliance lay awake engaged in earnest conversation; and in the morning, as the boys were assembling for breakfast, Diggory touched Acton on the shoulder and whispered, "I say, we've thought of a plan to find out if any one goes into the shed at night.

of Occurrences 49%

"The Yukon District comprises, speaking generally, that part of the Northwest Territories lying west of the water shed of the Mackenzie River; most of it is drained by the Yukon River and its tributaries.

over Occurrences 39%

She was shaking so and her face looked so ghastly in the moonlight that I was afraid to leave her; but she made me a gesture of such command that I ran quickly down the steps, and so round the house till I came to a shed over the top of which I saw a window partly open.

from Occurrences 34%

At the very last moment an officer or two were shed from every battalion of the Expeditionary Force to train those left behind.

with Occurrences 25%

The very cock crows lonesomely at morn Each flag and fern the shrinking stream divides Uneasy cattle low, and lambs forlorn Creep to their strawy sheds with nettled sides.

around Occurrences 11%

For she was born with God in Paradise; Nor all the shows of beauty shed around

as Occurrences 8%

All the wealth of the Indies could not shed as dazzling a light as that thorny crown.

by Occurrences 7%

He removed the saddle from Captain Jack, took the rope from the filly's neck, threw the horses some hay and on the dry ground under the shed by the corral, lay down and went to sleep.

to Occurrences 6%

Marjorie followed him down the kitchen steps, across the shed to a corner at the farther end; he found a nail and slipped it on and then asked her to reach it.

behind Occurrences 6%

It was a sudden loud snorting from the shed behind the house and a dull trampling that came to him through the noise of the rising wind.

between Occurrences 5%

But blood having been shed between the chiefs on either side, the deadly hatred thus engendered forbade all thoughts of a union.

like Occurrences 5%

"What on earth made us so absent-minded as to believe that a priceless relic would be kept in an old shed like this?" "We're sure enough idiots!" groaned Dan.

during Occurrences 5%

There is not much in common between the world as it appears to Sarah Ellen, who "runs" four looms in a Lancashire weaving shed during fifty-one weeks in the year, and my Lady Broadacres, who suns herself in Mayfair.

under Occurrences 5%

As they walked down to the frozen lake, there was a barking sound from a small shed under which was an engine, that hauled up the ice cakes.

near Occurrences 5%

Instinctively she stepped back and turned just as the Ramblin' Kid, riding Captain Jack, wheeled around the end of the shed near the corral.

into Occurrences 5%

I have often thought that, if some lethal vapour of highly preservative propertiessuch as formaldehyde, for instancecould be shed into the atmosphere of this apartment, the entire and complete collection of books and bookworms would be well worth preserving, for the enlightenment of posterity, as a sort of anthropological appendix to the main collection of the Museum.

without Occurrences 4%

Whilst he was there, Tito came, and, too frankly simple to keep anything from him, Tessa confessed that she had disobeyed his injunctions against holding converse with strangers, and was sheltering a strange, weary old man in the shed without.

about Occurrences 4%

The willow, covering the spot with floating shadows, should lend to it its own vague sadness, as it bent and shed about its soft, wan leaves, as if to protect and to caress my mortal spoils.

before Occurrences 3%

It might be she was advancing even now in her maiden majesty, as yet unseen, but shedding before her a soft and mellow radiance, a tender quiver of light and warmth, like that which flushes the horizon at the break of a summer's day.

against Occurrences 3%

Next spring he would have to put up a shed against the north wall of the house; the timber would have to be felled that winter, and the planks cut.

through Occurrences 3%

And these tears which my condition has drawn from your eyestell me, are they shed through indifference or hate?

than Occurrences 2%

You are better in the cart-shed than here.

Which preposition to use with  shed