Which preposition to use with starling

of Occurrences 4%

Starling of the White House.

in Occurrences 3%

He enjoyed the titillation of his own emotions, and he had practiced so long at detecting the latent pathos that lies in the expression of dumb things and of poor, patient animals, that he could summon the tear of sensibility at the thought of a discarded postchaise, a dead donkey, a starling in a cage, or of Uncle Toby putting a house fly out of the window, and saying, "There is room enough in the world for thee and me."

of Occurrences 3%

As Gaffer Swanthold sayeth, 'Tis a hard heart that will not give a caged starling of the best'; and caged starlings ye are with us.

from Occurrences 2%

A flock of starlings from up country lighted in a fir top to rest.

before Occurrences 1%

Sometimes a whole multitude came driven in a body like starlings before the wind, now hither and thither, now up, now down; sometimes they went in a line like cranes, when a company of those birds is beheld sailing along in the air, uttering its dolorous clangs.

to Occurrences 1%

In the first part the troubadour sends the starling to his love to reproach her for unfaithfulness, and to recommend himself to her favour; the bird returns, and in the second part offers excuses from the lady and brings an invitation from her to a meeting the next day.

to Occurrences 1%

Crownes for euery man for that voyage, after the rate of fiue shillings starling to the crowne: This done, he returned to Venice.

around Occurrences 1%

* * ON THE TOWER (1842) I stand aloft on the balcony, The starlings around me crying, And let like maenad my hair stream free To the storm o'er the ramparts flying.

at Occurrences 1%

So we shall see and hear but few birds round Port of Spain, save the black vultures {87a}Corbeaux, as they call them here; and the black 'tick birds,' {87b} a little larger than our English blackbird, with a long tail and a thick-hooked bill, who perform for the cattle here the same friendly office as is performed by starlings at home.

Which preposition to use with  starling