Which preposition to use with slouch

of Occurrences 9%

Gray were his eyes, too, and his suit, a comfortable baggy suit with the slouch of the wearer impressed into it, the coat hiking center back, the pocket-flaps half in, half out, and the knees sagging out of press.

over Occurrences 8%

"Ain't you heard the dog season's over?" "Well, don't you count on livin' to the next?" The man pushed his slouch over his eyes and scratched the back of his head.

along Occurrences 5%

That day Trove fell in with a great, awkward country boy, slouching along the road on his way to Cleveland.

in Occurrences 4%

It was followed by another, and still another, until there were five slouching in a half-circle about them, seventy yards away.

into Occurrences 4%

Having eaten ferociously, Dupont came out, slouched into a seat on a bench and, his thick limbs a-sprawl, consumed cigarette after cigarette in most absolute abstraction of mind.

at Occurrences 4%

She could almost have wished that her foster-brother was as full of devilish treachery as the huge ape-man slouching at her heels.

through Occurrences 3%

From these come the battered figures who slouch through the streets, and play the beggar or the bully, or help to foul the record of the unemployed; these are the worst class of corner-men, who hang round the doors of public- houses, the young men who spring forward on any chance to earn a copper, the ready materials for disorder when occasion serves.

from Occurrences 3%

I'll want some help, boys." As he called out these two names, two very fat, sleepy boys, looking like pillows with strings tied round their waists, slouched from behind the rock where they had been waiting, and stood sulkily at attention.

with Occurrences 2%

Every one of these raddled workers, slouching with his dog at his heels to see something of the fight, was a true unit of his race.

out Occurrences 2%

West came slouching out of the woods at Tom's signal.

without Occurrences 1%

He was lithe and Indian-looking; bearing in dress and manner the careless slouch without the easy frankness of a sailor.

after Occurrences 1%

Then apparently he thought better of it, and slouching after me up the platform, possessed himself of the larger and heavier of my two bags, which I had carefully left for him.

by Occurrences 1%

It took a new kind of gun, or an automobile with a steel prow for charging through barbed-wire entanglements, or a group of bedraggled Belgian prisoners slouching by under convoy, to make us give the spectacle more than a passing glance.

like Occurrences 1%

Half an hour after Merston's departure there came the shambling trot of another horse, and Piet Vreiboom, slouched like a sack in the saddle rode up and rolled off at the door.

past Occurrences 1%

As the last thought passed through his brain, Bracebridge's little mustang slouched past the window, ridden (without a saddle) by a horseman whom there was no mistaking for no one but the immaculate colonel, the chevalier sans peur et sans reproche, dared to go about the country 'such a figure.'

to Occurrences 1%

" "Lookit here, Tweezy," said Judge Dolan, slouching to the front of the crowd, "are you gonna run them women off thataway after this?"

toward Occurrences 1%

From over the ridge back of them, whence had come the notes of the funeral-drum, an Indian now slouched toward them, drawn by curiosity; stopping to look, then advancing, to stop again.

towards Occurrences 1%

Boy and girl turned, and beheld him rush towards a tall, loose-kneed man, clad in dirty dungaree, dark-haired and dark-avised with coal-dust, who came slouching towards the quay's edge.

under Occurrences 1%

A stout policeman slouched under a street-lamp, swinging his club with a heavily gloved hand, and in the shadow of the loft-building entrance Rhona pointed out to Myra several ill-looking private detectives who danced up and down on their toes, blew their hands, smoked cigarettes, and kept tab of the time.

across Occurrences 1%

"No, my footgear is not noisy, as befits a sickroom; but then my steps are not sprightly either, so you might have heard me slouching across the floor if you had not been so absorbed in the matter in hand.

Which preposition to use with  slouch