Which preposition to use with spouts

of Occurrences 37%

Raking the shingles, and the sea-worn rocks Sucking the brine through bared and lapping locks Of bright, brown tangle; while the shelving ledges Poured back the swirling waters o'er their edges; And billows breaking on a precipice In spouts of spray, fell spreading like a fleece.

from Occurrences 17%

And yonder is the identical Swinburne you used to spout from, too.

in Occurrences 11%

It creeps up whole hillsides with insidious heat, unguessed until one notes the pine woods dying at the top, and having scorched out a good block of timber returns to steam and spout in caked, forgotten crevices of years before.

like Occurrences 5%

" "Have you seen a whale?" "I've seen black fish; they spout like whales.

into Occurrences 5%

Once more the creature dived, and this time he stayed down only a few minutes, and, when he came up, blood spouted into the air and dyed the sea crimson, and Kalitan exclaimed: "Pierced his lungs!

with Occurrences 4%

But that to-morrow never comes, until they see quite plainly That it’s completely up the spout with Messrs. Scrase and Ainley.

to Occurrences 3%

Thinking over it, however, he remembered that just on the other side of the wall was the stable where his father's horses lived, close to the parson's garden; and in the corner, at the foot of the wall, was a drain; so that all he had to do was to fit another spout to this, at right angles to it, and carry it over the wall.

for Occurrences 3%

I think he regarded that little hell's kitchen as merely a feed-spout for his vast enterprise.

about Occurrences 2%

Men whose fame fills the land, when they are at home or spouting about the country, sink into insignificance when they get to Washington.

at Occurrences 2%

"Look," said she; "how it streams down from the spout at the corner of the barn!"

over Occurrences 2%

Scott was shot; his wife was seized and held motionless, while all her four children were tomahawked, and their throats cut, the blood spouting over her clothes.

as Occurrences 1%

can't see me; and I'll put my self into such a Posture, that if he feel me, he shall as soon take me for a Church Spout as a Man.

off Occurrences 1%

"Fogs are not its worst calamities: thunder-storms and water-spouts off the coasts are very frequent.

on Occurrences 1%

Then they go softly with it into the great city,one to a cleft in the pavement, one to a spout on the roof, one to a seam in the marbles over a rich gentleman's bones, and one to the grave without a stone where nothing but a man is buried,and there they grow, looking down on the generations of men from mouldy roofs, looking up from between the less-trodden pavements, looking out through iron cemetery-railings.

out Occurrences 1%

"I am not bandaging your eyes," went on the officer, "because I want you to look into this little round, round hole, and wait to see the fire spout out of it at you.

during Occurrences 1%

She can't even stand it to hear the water running down the eave spouts during a heavy shower.

through Occurrences 1%

Even the mill was silent, and the gate shut down; and, instead of the ordinary roar of the water under the wheel, only a hissing sound was heard, where the imprisoned water spouted through the crevices of the flume.

by Occurrences 1%

It was a lovely country of orchards and gardens, with fountains spouting by the wayside, and country houses perched on the steeps.

near Occurrences 1%

A column of water spouted near the prow.

Which preposition to use with  spouts