Which preposition to use with surges

of Occurrences 123%

Surges of merciful sobs came sweeping through and through her.

through Occurrences 72%

The crowd of players were tramping across the paved playground, and surging through the archway into the quadrangle, when Jack Vance and Mugford were suddenly confronted by Diggory.

in Occurrences 45%

" With a great joy surging in his heart, John Randolph held out his other hand.

to Occurrences 28%

On one such day when, standing on the high slope of Fifth Avenue where it rises toward the Park, and looking down on it, surging to and fro, it was as if, so manifest the brilliancy, every head wore a tin helmet, parrying sunlight at a thousand angles of refraction.

into Occurrences 24%

Thus, if I hide my watch when I am drunk, I must be drunk again before I can remember where.'" "I'm norradrink'n'man, sir," returned Mr. BUMSTEAD, drawing coldly back from him, and escaping a fall into the fireplace by a dexterous surge into the nearest chair.

over Occurrences 20%

The dog that was in him surged over his quarter-strain of wildness, and the woman and the baby alone filled his world.

against Occurrences 14%

The bottom of the storm is broken up into innumerable waves and currents that surge against the hillsides like sea-waves against a shore, and these, reacting on the nether surface of the storm, erode immense cavernous hollows and cañons, and sweep forward the resulting detritus in long trains, like the moraines of glaciers.

with Occurrences 14%

" Mrs. Coblenz threw her glance out over the crowded room, surging with a wave of plumes and clipped heads like a swaying bucket of water which crowds but does not lap over its sides.

about Occurrences 13%

she asked, startled, clutching the baby tighter to her, and conning over with quick alarm the tow-heads that bobbed and surged about her waist.

around Occurrences 11%

TRAGIC TALE OF A GERMAN PRISONER A typical description of some of the horrors of the battle, as it surged around Contalmaison, was given by a German prisoner on July 12 to the war correspondent of the London Chronicle.

from Occurrences 10%

The glass broke upon their backs and nearly set them wild, but being so accustomed to running the road, they never once left the track, and went flying on down the grade towards the next station, eight miles distant, the coach bouncing over the loose stones and small obstacles, and surging from side to side, as an eggshell would in the rapids of Niagara.

across Occurrences 6%

From Dreigrachten southward the French surged across the River Steenbeke, capturing all objectives, while at the same time the British occupied considerable territory in the region of St. Julien and Langemarck, captured the latter town, and carried the fighting beyond Langemarck.

for Occurrences 6%

They on the sea-girt rock, which is washed by the surges for ever, Set her in silence, the guiltless, aloft with her face to the eastward.

along Occurrences 5%

I like the crowds that surge along the streets at night, and the good times they are having.

round Occurrences 5%

Round after round of grape made fearful havoc on the mass of humanity that was heaving and surging round the gates.

on Occurrences 5%

The life-giving sun pours his floods, the last snow-wreath melts, myriads of growing points push eagerly through the steaming mold, the birds come back, new wings fill the air, and fervid summer life comes surging on, seemingly yet more glorious than before.

at Occurrences 4%

She went up to her room with a great homesickness surging at her heart.

toward Occurrences 4%

Even as we gazed at the leaders of the army while they stood listening to the foolish man as if believing him to be inspired, a mob of Tories and Indians surged toward that portion of the encampment, and in an instant St. Leger, Thayendanega, and Sir John Johnson were blotted out from our view.

within Occurrences 4%

He feels the passion for life surging within him.

like Occurrences 3%

The night-wind began to blow soon after dark; at first only a gentle breathing, but increasing toward midnight to a rough gale that fell upon my leafy roof in ragged surges like a cascade, bearing wild sounds from the crags overhead.

beneath Occurrences 3%

Thank God I can rejoice In human thingsthe multitude's glad voice, The street's warm surge beneath the city light, The rush of hurrying faces on my sight, The million-celled emotion in the press That would their human fellowship confess.

towards Occurrences 3%

With his mind's eye, (an apparatus expressly constructed for and fitted to his mental organization by a renowned necromancer,) PUNCHINELLO sees his Public surging towards him, and grasping with outstretched hands at the showers of bon bons with which he plentifully supplies them from an inexhaustible casket.

down Occurrences 2%

And swift as the ripples flee With the surges down the shore, It bears me back, o'er life's long track, To home and its love once more.

out Occurrences 2%

As the lads surged out of the armory, all talking at once about the robbery and its likely results, whom should they encounter on the street but Jack Curtiss and his two chums, evidently, from the fact that they carried waterproof garments over their arms, just back from their trip in Sam's newly-recovered hydroplane.

after Occurrences 2%

The squabbling retinue surged after him through the gate, and one by one the lanterns disappeared under the covered way.

Which preposition to use with  surges