Which preposition to use with street

of Occurrences 1663%

In the streets of a big city there is always a floating population ready to espouse violently any cause.

in Occurrences 594%

I was astonished at first at this seeming increase in my muscular powers; when, on passing along a street in Alamatua, soon after my arrival, and meeting a dog, which I thought to be mad, I proposed to run out of his way, and in leaping over a gutter, I fairly bounded across the street.

to Occurrences 322%

Veritas writes to say that as he was crossing the ferry from Wall Street to Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon, he counted 117 persons reading PUNCHINELLO.

with Occurrences 311%

We met him often walking about the streets with one or two of his gentlemen, and looking in at the windows like an ordinary provincial.

at Occurrences 188%

Tutt replied that he would himself carry the watch across the street at nine o'clock, and no other man would do it.

for Occurrences 120%

Tunbridge Wells is visited now chiefly by old ladies whose husbandsto judge by the black lace capshave left Lombard Street for heaven.

on Occurrences 109%

The streets on which they played were narrow and dirty.

from Occurrences 94%

At sight of him who had shambled so taken-for-granted through all of her girlhood, such a trembling seized hold of Hanna de Long that she turned off down Amboy Street, making another wide detour to avoid a group on the Koerner porch, finally approaching Second Street from the somewhat straggly end of it farthest from the station.

by Occurrences 64%

In Post-Restoration days a ballad sung in the streets by two persons was frequently called a Jig, presumably because it was a 'song in dialogue'.

into Occurrences 63%

Turning from the incline of cross-street into this petty Baghdad of the petty wise, the voice of the street corner lifted itself above the inarticulate din of the thoroughfare.

near Occurrences 55%

This is especially true of many of the streets near the water front.

after Occurrences 53%

Thus directed, Dick walked street after street, asking to see the wounded; and the fourth day, coming to a residence, rather handsomer than the others on the street, not two blocks from Mrs. Raines, Jack's Samaritan, he found a wasted figure, with bandaged head and unmeaning eyes, that he recognized as Barney.

without Occurrences 53%

He goes out into the street without a hat!

as Occurrences 49%

And, sirs, I'me sorry to be obliged to speak plain, it would be a darned site more to your credit if you'd try and raise the earth, instead of daily usin' Wall Street as a base of operations to raise H, wellexcuse me, the futer asilum for retired brokers.

toward Occurrences 48%

I don't suppose," she added, as they crossed the street toward a building a little more dilapidated than the rest that had the words Livery Stable painted on a blurred sign over the door, "that there is any sort of hotel or boarding house where we might put up for the night.

through Occurrences 46%

Meanwhile splendid preparations were being made in the Medici palace for the reception of King Charles; his officers were to be lodged in the houses of the principal citizens, and the streets through which he was to pass were covered with awnings and draped with hangings and tapestries.

like Occurrences 38%

On the night we speak of, Hetty had parted from Thursday Smith at one o'clock and crept into the hallway of the silent, barnlike hotel; but as soon as the man turned away she issued forth again and walked up the empty street like a shadow.

between Occurrences 34%

This afternoon I overheard part of a plot in a café in Regent Street between two men, strangers to me, but who had both apparently made up their minds that this particular paper was worth a little more than your life.

before Occurrences 31%

When Mrs. Burkhardt stepped out into an evening left thus to its stilly depth, shades drawn against it, a light dust of snow, just fallen, was scurrying up-street before the wind, like something phantom with its skirts blowing forward.

towards Occurrences 23%

The moonlight and the night appeared to have taken upon them a new and singular aspect, and he walked up the street towards his lodging like one drunk or in a dream.

under Occurrences 19%

" And having thus paid his ultimate compliment to Johnnie, Himes relapsed into intermittent slumber as Shade moved away down the squalid, dusty street under the fierce July sun.

below Occurrences 19%

The driving snow, the clumps of bushes on the cliff, and the little houses in the street below all gave the Americans some welcome cover.

off Occurrences 17%

" We hailed a hansom and drove across Westminster Bridge to the address he gavea gloomy back street off the York Road, one of those narrow, grimy thoroughfares into which the sun never shines.

behind Occurrences 14%

exclaimed Sam presently, and pointed to the dudish student, who was crossing the street behind the depot.

during Occurrences 14%

The rooms he took were above a secondhand clothing shop kept by a drunken female named Leaver; a supposed widow who lived at the back of the shop with her two children, Lizzie, a bold-eyed girl of 17, who worked at a Clerkenwell clothing factory, and Joe, a typical Cockney boy of fourteen, who sold papers in the streets during the day and was fast qualifying for a thief at night when Crewe went to the place to live.

Which preposition to use with  street