Which preposition to use with strewing

with Occurrences 399%

There, in the immediate foreground of your picture, rises a majestic forest of Silver Fir blooming in eternal freshness, the foliage yellow-green, and the snow beneath the trees strewn with their beautiful plumes, plucked off by the wind.

over Occurrences 61%

Take a neck of veal, cut it in joints, and flatten them with a bill; cut off the ends of the bones, and lard the thick part of the cutlets with four or five bits of bacon; season it with nutmeg, pepper and salt; strew over them a few bread crumbs, and sweet herbs shred fine; first dip the cutlets in egg to make the crumbs stick, then broil them before the fire, put to them a little brown gravy sauce, so serve it up.

about Occurrences 52%

Most of the furniture was upset or pulled out of place, magazines and papers lay strewn about in every direction, ink was trickling in black rivulets about the floor, and draughts and chess men seemed to have been scattered broadcast all over the place.

in Occurrences 27%

The wedding cheer served for a sad burial feast, the bridal hymns were changed to sullen dirges, the sprightly instruments to melancholy bells, and the flowers that should have been strewed in the bride's path, now served but to strew her corse.

on Occurrences 24%

There were provisions in plenty strewn on the ground, having been thrown out of the wagons to make room for the wounded, and from such store Sergeant Corney gathered up as much as would serve us during four and twenty hours.

along Occurrences 14%

From the facts that skeletons of seals had been found strewed along the north shore, and the present void, Roswell was led to infer that the late storm had been one of unusual intensity, and most probably of a character to occur only at long intervals.

around Occurrences 13%

His hands were crossed on his breast, beautiful autumn leaves lay strewn around him on the coverlet, and white flowers at the foot of the bed.

under Occurrences 6%

From the flowers strewn under one's feet, one can always chose the most beautiful, or not choose at all, but always tread upon them.

at Occurrences 5%

To check our enthusiasm, we had strewn at our feet old broken bottles and crockery, the débris and classic relics of former visitors, who were equally attentive to creature-comforts as to the grandeur of the Argan monarch of the surrounding forest.

beneath Occurrences 4%

The flowers which he strewed beneath her footsteps, the pearls which he melted in her winemetaphorically speakingwere just 'good enough' and no more.

across Occurrences 4%

But inside they found nothing except burnt-out matches strewn across the floor, testimony of their earlier search.

between Occurrences 3%

The end of the book, now denoted by finis, was anciently marked with a <, called coronis, and the whole frequently washed with an oil drawn from cedar, or citron chips strewed between the leaves, to preserve it from rotting.

through Occurrences 3%

And strewn through life's low labors, Like gold in the desert sands, Are love's swift kisses and sighs and vows And the clasp of clinging hands.

of Occurrences 3%

4, respecting the strewing of rushes on floors instead of carpets.

as Occurrences 3%

Before me, looming through the night, Darker than night's sad heart, King Ida's castle on the sheer crag set Waked darker sorrow yet Within me for the light, Beauty, and might of old loves rent apart, Time-broken, spent, And strewn as old dead winds among the salt-sea bent.

before Occurrences 3%

Flowers of verdant nooks be strewn before thy face: Let cypresses of brooks bear witness to thy grace!

Like Occurrences 2%

Little you dream what maddening ecstasies, What rich ideals haunt, by day and night, Alone, and in the crowd, even to the death, The servitors of that celestial court Where peerless Mary, sun-enthroned, reigns, In whom all Eden dreams of womanhood, All grace of form, hue, sound, all beauty strewn Like pearls unstrung, about this ruined world, Have their fulfilment and their archetype.

from Occurrences 2%

The storm which had just swept over the American colonies had passed, leaving wrecks strewn from shore to shore, 'tis true, but a land fairer and greater than ever, a people tried by adversity and made strong.

than Occurrences 2%

At this place the dead were accumulated, I think beyond precedent, the dark plain around for at least three miles being as strewn as a reaped field with stacks, and, near the bank, much more strewn than stack-fields, filling the only house within sight of the pit-mouththe small place provided for the company's officialsand even lying over the great mountain-heap of wark, composed of the shale and débris of the working.

throughout Occurrences 2%

Stuart had pushed on past Warrenton with his cavalry, toward the Orange Railroad, when, on the night of the 13th, he met with one of those adventures which were thickly strewed throughout his romantic career.

to Occurrences 2%

Its beautiful branches were cut away, and its soft, thick foliage was strewn to the winds.

into Occurrences 1%

"'I think Miss Axtell and I scarcely need an introduction,' he said; nevertheless he looked the pleasure it had strewed into his field, and guarded it, as a careful husbandman would choicest seed.

for Occurrences 1%

He had strewn for her a carpet of the soft, sweet hay and piled it into cushions.

amongst Occurrences 1%

Another method of drying cherries is to stone them, and to put them into a preserving-pan, with plenty of loaf sugar strewed amongst them.

alongside Occurrences 1%

"Blast this mess of halyards and gear Bucky strewed alongside" I heard Thirkle draw his breath sharply as he left the sentence unfinished.

Which preposition to use with  strewing