Which preposition to use with suburbs

of Occurrences 363%

Jack Vance lived in the suburbs of Todderton, about twenty minutes' walk from the railway; but for all that he managed to carry out his intention of being home in time for dinner; and the three boys, after receiving a hearty welcome, were soon seated down to a repast which came very acceptable after seven weeks of school fare.

in Occurrences 13%

Salcano to the north, in the very mouth of the gorge, the fashionable suburb in days before the war; Podgora to the west, on the other side of the Isonzo, industrial.

with Occurrences 7%

It was not difficult for a girl who had been making it her business to frequent the wineshops of the suburbs with a brother, earning a precarious living by singing and playing on the harp, to accept such a proposition, and consent to bestow happiness upon an excessively amorous man, who offered to share with her a luxurious and tranquil life in one of the finest residences in the suburb Saint Germain.

to Occurrences 7%

Yet, if my reading and studies were correct, such things had happened in other families not very different from ours; not in our own town maybe, but in such near-by places as Kandahar and Serendibplaces which in my warm regard were but as suburbs to our street, to be gained if you persevered for a hundred lamp-posts.

on Occurrences 7%

As Marcus Pomponius at the Porta Trigemina under the Aventine; Publius Laetorius at the bridge over the Tiberwhere Horatius Cocles was said to have once withstood, singly, the Etruscan armyso Gracchus, attended only by his slave Euporus, reached the suburb on the right bank of the Tiber.

of Occurrences 4%

"The fumes from the factories, Mr. Hawkins, have so played the devil with our trees that the general impoverishment of nature has earned for the locality of Sheffield the unpleasant title of the 'Suburbs of Hell.'

at Occurrences 4%

Some women, who had seen them enter the old suburb at the lower part of the town, asserted that the stranger was carrying the child in his arms when he came to the town.

from Occurrences 4%

In those suburbs from which the workmen had not been able to break into the inner town, the insurrection threatened to assume the form of an attack on the employers.

for Occurrences 3%

Such was the fond dream of many an innocent heart, when in August of 1911 we saw the soldiers distributed among the city stations or posted at peaceful junctions where suburb had met suburb for years in the morning, and parted at evening without a blow.

into Occurrences 2%

Nor is the truant always in the streets, for if he prefers, he may go out by the gardened suburbs into the country.

about Occurrences 2%

The place was a sample of many other suburbs about Lens.

than Occurrences 2%

On the outside of the walls there are twelve large suburbs, extending three or four miles in length, from each gate, and there are more inhabitants in these suburbs than within the walls.

through Occurrences 2%

The suburb through which he was passing seemed to have congealed.

within Occurrences 2%

"Agrippa healed the sores which he found still festering and repelled the advance of the Egyptian rites, which were returning once more to the City, forbidding any one to perform them even in the suburbs within eight half-stadia.

without Occurrences 1%

There is a great suburb without it, and a great double dyke, well watered on each hand without it.

by Occurrences 1%

We entered the Suburbs by the Währinger Linie, and the old town by the Rothes Thor (Red gate); and from thence I repaired to the inn Zum weissen Wolf (white Wolf) in the Altem Fleischmarkt (old meat-market).

between Occurrences 1%

The pilgrims must have built their huts and set up some sort of little oratoryfavored, as was the case even in Pope Nicholas' day, by the excellent quarry of the Circus close at handas near as possible to the great shrine and basilica which they had come so far to say their prayers in, and attracted, too, no doubt, by the freedom of the lonely suburb between the green hill and the flowing river.

towards Occurrences 1%

I have already made a sort of forecast (in my "Anticipations") of what may happen if the social and economic process goes on fairly smoothly for all that time, and shown a New York relieved from its present congestion by the development of the means of communication, and growing and spreading in wide and splendid suburbs towards Boston and Philadelphia.

until Occurrences 1%

II IN LONDON On Tuesday, July 19, I went to London on business, and did not return to my home in the south-western suburbs until nearly seven o'clock in the evening.

after Occurrences 1%

With this view, fort after fort, suburb after suburb, was taken or demolished.

during Occurrences 1%

Yesterday I made a tour of the town of Shanghae, and find that the French, by way of protecting it, burnt down about one-half of the suburbs during the summer.

near Occurrences 1%

The colporteur made his escape over the wall of the city and fled to the house of some friends in the suburbs near the river-side.

by Occurrences 1%

He came upon the upper suburbs by the same route as he had entered Mecca two years before, and proceeded to the Kaaba.

beyond Occurrences 1%

He lodged his men in the suburbs beyond the walls, holding the town so close that food might not enter whether by the river or the gates.

Which preposition to use with  suburbs