Which preposition to use with stalking

of Occurrences 206%

Chop 1 pound of raw beef; season with salt, pepper and 1 teaspoonful of curry-powder; add 2 stalks of chopped celery, 1 small onion and some chopped parsley.

in Occurrences 35%

With a lofty bow the Senator turned and stalked in another direction as if he did not care for the other's further company.

through Occurrences 35%

When Clark Griffith stalked through the west on his first invasion of the season with a team of youngsters, some of them practically unknown, and declared he was going after the pennant, everybody laughed or wanted to.

with Occurrences 31%

Persecuted no longer, nay, even caressed by the government, he returned to his native plains, to stalk with added haughtiness and new titles to esteem among his brother Gauchos of La Rioja.

into Occurrences 31%

"H," said a friend of mine, as he stalked into my sanctum, a few days after my return, and seated himself at my elbow, as if for a private and confidential talk, "did Smith really shoot the bear, the skin of which he brought home, and which he exhibits with such triumph.

from Occurrences 28%

" The man stalked from the room and closed the door behind him.

about Occurrences 26%

Pull them when dry, dip the stalks about an an inch of boiling water, and seal the end with wax; chop wheat straw and put a little at the bottom of the barrel, then a layer of grapes, and a layer of straw, 'till the barrel is fill'd up; do not lie the bunches too near one another; stop the barrel close, and set it in a dry place; but not any way in the sun.

to Occurrences 25%

She stalked to a nearby shelf which was covered with various bottles of herbs and tinctures.

out Occurrences 19%

No light task this of conveying to the Creator, in covert terms, a due sense of the iniquity of the Jesuits, without, at the same time, stirring O'Flynn's bile, and seeing him get up and stalk out of meeting, as had happened once before.

on Occurrences 16%

But he had tied an onion-stalk on himself.

like Occurrences 11%

In it, however, there is no longer the fiction of an imaginary character stalking like a shadow amid his descriptions and reflectionshe comes more decidedly forwards as the hero in his own person.

by Occurrences 11%

The path is weary, the desert wide, And Sorrow stalks by the pilgrim's side Oh for a draught of Hope's crystal tide To cheer the parch'd and fainting one, Until his toilsome race be run, And the bright mirage fall from the sky, Displaced by a sweet reality.

at Occurrences 10%

If he had been a ghost, men could not have avoided him more sedulously, and the giant servant who stalked at his back.

across Occurrences 10%

He shuddered a little at the thought of the big man stalking across the burning and interminable sands of the desert or toiling through the mountains.

among Occurrences 7%

And alway it did search, thrusting in the eye-stalks among the boulders.

along Occurrences 7%

There also were stately flamingoes, stalking along knee-deep in the water, which was shallow; and nearer to the shore were flocks of rose-coloured spoonbills and solitary big grey herons standing motionless; also groups of white egrets, and a great multitude of glossy ibises, with dark green and purple plumage and long sickle-like beaks.

behind Occurrences 5%

Some protective barrier had fallen into ruins round me, so that Terror stalked behind the general collapse, feeling for me through all the gaping fissures.

after Occurrences 5%

Then came an afternoon when, returning from a stalk after sheep, I heard strange and shocking noises from the laboratory.

before Occurrences 5%

For life had stalked before her with an altogether too tragic mien.

down Occurrences 4%

His complexion is perfect, his uniform neat, He rivets all eyes as he stalks down the street; And I doubt if his critics will ever complain Of his being a little deficient in brain.

as Occurrences 4%

Pick off all the dead outside leaves, cut off as much of the stalk as possible, and cut the cabbages across twice, at the stalk end; if they should be very large, quarter them.

round Occurrences 3%

The tiger, after stalking round the tree, went to the corpse, smelled it, and then crossing to the hillock climbed up and sat himself there.

beside Occurrences 3%

And in that 'Retraite Infernale,' as one of its historians has called it, I saw want, hunger, cupidity, cruelty, disease, stalking beside the war fiend; so no wonder that, like Zola, I regard warfare as the greatest of abominations that fall upon the world.

between Occurrences 3%

At last a fellow came in with a bag of cherries; and we began trying that old trickyou knowtaking the end of a stalk between your lips and drawing the cherry into the mouth without touching it with your hand, you know.

for Occurrences 3%

A parti-coloured ghost that stalks for penance?

Which preposition to use with  stalking