Which preposition to use with shore

of Occurrences 2021%

I cannot tell how long a space passed thus; but, after a while, it seemed that I could see through the mistiness; and, slowly, I became aware that I was standing upon the shore of an immense and silent sea.

in Occurrences 196%

He don't want no shore in his.

with Occurrences 174%

We perceive that everywhere are "Swelling hills and spacious plains Besprent from shore to shore with steeple-towers, And spires whose silent finger points to heaven.

to Occurrences 156%

For half-an-hour, I worked hard, and, at last, got it shored to my mind.

for Occurrences 108%

Pedo requests the judge to take the prisoner's name, and produces a summons with this charge: Senators killed, 35; Roman Knights, 221; others as the sands of the sea-shore for multitude.

at Occurrences 107%

The shore at Twin Coves was a somewhat lonely spot, owing to stretches of marshland and a sweep of pine wood that reached almost to the edge of the water.

on Occurrences 76%

And close along the shore on this side there is a strip of rocky meadow enameled with buttercups, daisies, and white violets, and the purple-topped grasses out on its beveled border dip their leaves into the water.

from Occurrences 44%

It lies about eight miles above Yosemite Valley, on the main branch of the Merced, at an elevation of about 7350 feet above the sea; and is everywhere so securely cliff-bound that without artificial trails only wild animals can get down to its rocky shores from any direction.

by Occurrences 33%

My heart is much affected in having to commence my journal on a foreign shore by recording such an afflicting event.

as Occurrences 30%

Skirt the shore as near the breakers as you safely can.

near Occurrences 22%

After further hesitation he again embarked, and again sought the Italian shore near Formiae.

without Occurrences 21%

We, in truth, were little less astonished than they, for we certainly expected no such game to be hiding there, and when they leaped up so suddenly and plunged away, crashing and snorting through the brush, it startled us somewhat; but our boats and guns were on the other side of the island, and we could only look on as they swam boldly to the shore without the power to harm them.

under Occurrences 14%

My musings on whether sea-monsters did ever disport themselves on the shore under the cover of sufficiently dark nights would be broken into by discovering that I had plunged into a stream of undiscoverable dimensions, whose existence only revealed itself by the splash of my boots.

before Occurrences 12%

His recovering senses were distracted by a ceaseless watery din, for the breaking waves, rushing with a prodigious swiftness from the harbor to the shore before the driving wind, fell with uproarious crashing into white foam among the rocks.

between Occurrences 11%

He knew, then, what had happened, but he felt sure that the boat must still be very near the wharfperhaps drifting up to the rocky shore between the piers.

than Occurrences 11%

Her house was two miles nearer the shore than the school-building, but he preferred the walk in all weathers and he liked the view of the water.

during Occurrences 11%

He appeared to be a person who, having seen all the military developments on these shores during the last month, thought he would cross over the channel with a retinue, to see what the Chemoquemon

into Occurrences 10%

Carr cast off, and, with the negro and myself at the halliards, the mainsail rose to the caps, while we began gliding out from the shore into the deeper water.

towards Occurrences 9%

The road winds up over the low shore towards Fairlight, ever before one, and at last as one goes up Guestling Hill through a whole long afternoon and reaches the King's Head Inn at sunset, suddenly across the smoke of Hastings one sees Pevensey Level, and beyond, the hills where fell the great fight in which William Duke of Normandy disputed for England with Harold the King.

like Occurrences 9%

Hundreds of little ermine scurried along the shore like rats, their squeaking little voices sounding incessantly; foxes ran swiftly along the banks, seeking a tree or a windfall that might bridge the water for them; the lynx snarled and faced the fire; and Gray Wolf's own tribethe wolvesdared take no deeper step than she.

about Occurrences 9%

It is Caesar, however, who tells us that he landed about mid-day and that all his ships held together and reached shore about the same time.

through Occurrences 8%

In this roadstead within the other two, which had but narrow entrances then, Agrippa, by cutting channels close along the shore through the land separating Lucrinus from the sea on each side, produced harbors affording most safe anchorage for ships.

opposite Occurrences 8%

On the 3rd of November, the day St Johns surrendered to Montgomery, an intercepted dispatch had warned Cramahe of Arnold's approach and led him to seize all the boats on the south shore opposite Quebec.

until Occurrences 7%

I saw a boat laden with men, the greater number of whom were unarmed because of having thrown away their weapons during the flight, push off in company with several others; but the oarsmen of this particular craft were clumsy, and she drifted down the shore until beyond range of the remainder of the force.

after Occurrences 7%

I did not answer, but called his attention to little Jack, who was running along the shore after his red cap, which had been carried off by a gust of wind.

Which preposition to use with  shore