Which preposition to use with sty

of Occurrences 3%

What will the vulgar think when they see the sty of Epicurus sumptuously adorned, and the porch of Zeno shabby and bare?

at Occurrences 2%

The most salient of the shepherd's domestic erections was an empty sty at the forward corner of his hedgeless garden, for in these latitudes the principle of masking the homelier features of your establishment by a conventional frontage was unknown.

for Occurrences 2%

Four pigs were then produced, one immediately killed, and the others put in a sty for future use.

into Occurrences 1%

The nearest pigs, hearing the well-remembered sound, rouse from their straw, and rush from their sties into the road, followed by all their litters.

to Occurrences 1%

I do not know whether it is not presumptuous, in the face of Miss Acton, Mrs. Rundle, and so many other authorities, not forgetting the great Alexis Soyer, to give "our method of curing" the last-mentioned dainties; but we think we may as well follow up the history of our pigs, from the sty to the kitchen.

as Occurrences 1%

In a sort of clear moment he saw that he could not keep Cissie in such a sty as this.

with Occurrences 1%

Having changed them, she shut them up in her sty with many more whom her wicked sorceries had formerly changed, and gave them swine's food, mast, and acorns, and chestnuts, to eat.

by Occurrences 1%

Though the wood-choppers have laid bare first this shore and then that, and the Irish have built their sties by it, and the railroad has infringed on its border, and the ice-men have skimmed it once, it is itself unchanged, the same water which my youthful eyes fell on; all the change is in me.

in Occurrences 1%

Don't be afraid, mandon't give it upshe's not cryingonly summat has made her eyes redshe has got a sty in her eye, I believe(going.)

Which preposition to use with  sty