Which preposition to use with smother

in Occurrences 83%

And rarely there is a desk so smothered in learningreeking so of scholarshipas not to admit a lighter nook for the tucking of a sea yarn.

of Occurrences 33%

Nor was this fancy, on my part; for, all at once, the bookshelf, along the sidewall, collapsed, with a cracking and rending of rotten wood, precipitating its contents upon the floor, and filling the room with a smother of dusty atoms.

with Occurrences 29%

In about 8 minutes they will be done, then put them on a very hot dish; smother with the oyster sauce, and the remainder send to table in a tureen.

under Occurrences 14%

King had gone that way, Gloria stood up, smothered under a sense of aloneness She resented his going; she was on the verge of calling to him; her heart began to beat faster.

to Occurrences 6%

Cars that ought to hold a certain number of pigs, or sheep, or cattle, jammed full with twice as many, and half of 'em thrown out choked and smothered to death.

for Occurrences 4%

Into these last they snuggled down, wrapping themselves up so completely that a tenderfoot would have smothered for lack of air.

like Occurrences 3%

A snow-slide caught him and he left his horse buried, struggling out himself from the cold smother like a maimed insect to lie for hours by the road till breath and life came back to him.

from Occurrences 3%

Soon he disappeared through the shop, whilst she still found herself hopelessly bewildered, with a number of snap-shot photographs before her, still staring at a long piece of string, smothered from end to end in a series of knots, as bewildering, as irritating, as puzzling as the man who had lately sat in the corner.

among Occurrences 2%

The songs themselves, which have been inserted between the cantos in the last edition of the book, seem, perfect as they are, wasted and smothered among the surrounding fertility; till we discover that they stand there, not merely for the sake of their intrinsic beauty, but serve to call back the reader's mind, at every pause in the tale of the Princess's folly, to that very healthy ideal of womanhood which she has spurned.

within Occurrences 1%

He would smother within himself that passion which in forthright men is so prone to burst into violence.

at Occurrences 1%

Every manly aspiration, and womanly feeling, was smothered at its birth.

into Occurrences 1%

There was the confusion of one person falling over another; there was the wild grasping for support, the seizing of each other's garments and arms, the undefined and undefinable struggle of the first desperate minute after a boat has capsized, the scream that dies to a gurgle in the water and then breaks out afresh, louder and sharper than before, and then is suddenly smothered into a gurgle again.

on Occurrences 1%

They may try to put the smother on me.

over Occurrences 1%

Sometimes the infants were smothered over a fire (Waitz, VI., 779), and deformed children were always killed.

about Occurrences 1%

Crouching close against each other they stood there on the edge of the woods, the night darkly smothering about them, the bare, open hills lying beyond in the still sky, waiting for the long-apprehended climaxthe utterance of the first great syllable.

Which preposition to use with  smother