Which preposition to use with snarl

at Occurrences 70%

He still snarled at McCready, the rumbling menace in his throat growing deeper.

of Occurrences 58%

Mary was afraid when she heard the snarls of animals in the jungle, but she put her trust in God and went on.

in Occurrences 17%

But kept snarling in his throat.

like Occurrences 14%

The man snarled like a beast, leaped back and plucked from his seaman's belt a great horse-pistol.

from Occurrences 12%

" There was a snarl from the three men.

through Occurrences 4%

Are you known?" The other uttered an oath snarling through his teeth.

with Occurrences 3%

Pondering, he sat alone behind The broad sail swallowing the wind, As over the hollowing waves that leapt And snarled with foaming lips, and swept Around the bows in querulous fray, And tossed in curves of drenching spray, The belching ship with ardour drove; Then like a lordly elk that strove Amid the hounds and, charging, rent The pack asunder as it went, It bore round and in beauty sprang

to Occurrences 3%

The sun shines with a cold gleam, and the surf has an angry snarl to it as it surges up the sandy slopes and then recedes, dragging the pebbles after it with a rattling sound.

about Occurrences 2%

And great he grew as, looming large, He fought, and pressing to the marge Of ocean, he o'erpowered and drave The Viking hero back; till wave O'er ready wave that hurried fleet, Snuffled and snarled about their feet ...

between Occurrences 2%

He snarled between his clamped teeth.

for Occurrences 2%

When dogs were snarling for a bone, He longed to make the war his own, And often found (when two contend)

over Occurrences 2%

Had it been either more moral or more practical, this book would probably have yielded him a modest income, for such works are dear to the British public; but Rudolph Starkey, M.A., was one of those men who do everything by halves and snarl over the ineffectual results.

beside Occurrences 1%

And Kate ran to the window with the wolf-dog snarling beside her and saw standing in front of the house, his hat off, his black hair wildly tumbled, and two guns in his hands, Buck Daniels!

before Occurrences 1%

All night they snuff and snarl before

on Occurrences 1%

By day and by night, never resting, snarling on his heels, snapping at his nose, they would stay by him to the end.

after Occurrences 1%

I proceed with my task, being fully purposed to bear with equanimity the judgments of all who come snarling after me.

as Occurrences 1%

Their very noses serrulated and shook in brute passion, and they snarled as the wolves snarl, with all the hatred and malignity of the breed impelling them to spring upon the woman and drag her down.

throughout Occurrences 1%

He who shows himself upon a cold scent for opportunities to bark and snarl throughout a volume of six hundred pages, may, if he will, pretend to moralise; but goodness of heart, or, to use that politer phrase, "the virtue of a horse or a dog," would redound more to his honour.

around Occurrences 1%

Soon, on the side of a hill, rather high up a pack of prairie wolves were snarling around the carcass of some dead animal, and this was regarded as another sign that more and better meat could be found, for these animals only live where some sort of game can be found, and they knew better than we that it was not for their health to go into the barren desert.

toward Occurrences 1%

he snarled toward the obscuring heavens.

under Occurrences 1%

Ali gave the cry of the camel-driver and the uncouth beasts, twisting and snarling under their loads, struggled to their feet.

upon Occurrences 1%

Suspicion, Jealousy.] Suspicion, and jealousy, are general symptoms: they are commonly distrustful, apt to mistake, and amplify, facile irascibiles, [2508]testy, pettish, peevish, and ready to snarl upon every [2509]small occasion, cum amicissimis, and without a cause, datum vel non datum, it will be scandalum acceptum.

into Occurrences 1%

The bad-tempered sky scowled between the planks of the roof; the querulous wind whined up through the floor; rats backed snarling into the corners on our entrance.

Which preposition to use with  snarl