Which preposition to use with strays

from Occurrences 97%

What so easily explained as that I should have strayed from the path in the darkness?

into Occurrences 63%

Persons straying into the church, as they often did, attracted by the sound of music, would declare the performer to be an experienced masculine musician.

to Occurrences 28%

I found some of my friends, and settled my business with them, but my eyes were always straying to the green awning where I knew that Elspeth sat.

in Occurrences 27%

I told him I was a hunter who had strayed in the hills.

Beyond Occurrences 17%

Pardon me, Madam, if my Passion stray Beyond the limits of my high respect; [He kneels.

through Occurrences 14%

AUTUMN Shorter and shorter now the twilight clips The days, as through the sunset gates they crowd, And Summer from her golden collar slips And strays through stubble-fields and moans aloud.

on Occurrences 13%

I trow when, that she saw, within a crack She came with a right thieveless errand back: Misca'd me first; then bade me hound my dog, To wear up three waff ewes strayed on the bog.

over Occurrences 13%

I had seen her in silk and lace, a queen among the gallants, but she never looked so fair as on that misty morning, her hair straying over her brow, her plain kirtle soiled and sodden, but her eyes bright with her young courage.

out Occurrences 11%

My foot strayed out of the path in my confusion and the gloom together, and I brought myself up with a cry as I felt myself knock against something solid.

about Occurrences 9%

One day he was straying about a rath called "Cashel Nore."

across Occurrences 8%

Unfortunately for others who might stray across our borders, the smell overpowers them in seconds, rendering any potential invader helpless.

among Occurrences 7%

He Strays among Sharpers, and "Sees the Elephant.

of Occurrences 5%

For twenty minutes or more odd waifs and strays of humanity crawled in through the trap-door, obtained their message of good or ill, and departed into the shadows as silently as they had come.

at Occurrences 3%

The larger walls were probably intended as corrals, to keep alpacas and llamas from straying at night and to guard against wolves or coyotes.

like Occurrences 3%

Of all the winged inhabitants of air, These only make their young the public care; In well-disposed societies they live, And laws and statutes regulate their hive; Nor stray like others unconfined abroad, But know set stations, and a fixed abode: 190 Each provident of cold in summer flies Through fields and woods, to seek for new supplies, And in the common stock unlades his thighs.

for Occurrences 3%

" A cricket match needs to be very narrowly watched, or the spectator whose eye has strayed for a moment from the game misses some fine piece of play.

with Occurrences 3%

Thus it was with the first floor of the house, through which Patricia strayed with uniform discomfort.

within Occurrences 2%

She has grown up to be a maiden of more than human beauty, when one day she is seen by the king, who, while hunting, has strayed within the sacred precincts while the saint is away on a holy errand.

toward Occurrences 2%

The others strayed toward the house.

after Occurrences 2%

It shook again through the heavy, oppressive night, merely accentuated by the candlea faint ululation barely detaching itself from silence, straying after a time into the silence again.

of Occurrences 1%

In Strathpeffer district the tale is well known, and it is referred to in "Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition."

along Occurrences 1%

The unusual silence of those who ordinarily sought him on similar occasions, had not been lost on the agent; and the sight of the felucca, as he strayed along the quays, gave an accidental direction to his inquiries.

beside Occurrences 1%

Every beast, that strays beside me, has the same corporal necessities with myself: he is hungry, and crops the grass, he is thirsty and drinks the stream, his thirst and hunger are appeased, he is satisfied and sleeps: he rises again and is hungry, he is again fed, and is at rest.

between Occurrences 1%

It was two miles to that regiment and two miles is a long distance to stray between two lines of trenches so close together, when at any point in your own line you will find friends.

by Occurrences 1%

"'That will never do,' said my mother; 'the first cat that strays by will take the poor thing.'

Which preposition to use with  strays