Which preposition to use with tented

of Occurrences 239%

I entered the camp and proceeded to the tent of Major Cox, to whom I handed a letter from General Sheridan requesting him to give me a fresh horse.

in Occurrences 151%

Two of these boats were for our own conveyance, and one for our luggage and provisions; the latter to be sent forward with our tents in advance, so as to have a home ready for us always, at our coming, when we chose to linger by the way.

with Occurrences 90%

Or it is possible that these are the kindred of Holofernes and that they have supped guiltily in their tents with a sisterhood of Judiths.

on Occurrences 84%

We had in the morning directed the boatman in charge of the baggage to go on in advance, and erect our tents on an island in Round Lake.

for Occurrences 73%

We had knocked the ashes from our pipes, and were about retiring to our tents for the night, when a long wake in the water across the line of the moon's reflection, attracted our attention.

at Occurrences 55%

We had orders to pitch a large tent at a suitable spot and to lighten ship of the doctor's personal and scientific effects.

to Occurrences 29%

"She has kept house for me!" He pointed out Lou's tent to his companion and the big man, with a single low word of warning, threw open the flap of the tent and strode in.

near Occurrences 15%

The yellow flag floated from an immense tent near the roadway.

under Occurrences 12%

Caesar, unwilling to expose his soldiers to the rigor of the season, established his camp at Genabum (Gien), and lodged them partly in the huts which had remained undestroyed, partly in tents under penthouses covered with straw.

without Occurrences 11%

We had been given to expect that, although we had taken the precaution to pitch our tent without the limits of the intolerant place, the police would be present, and would most probably disperse our assembly.

by Occurrences 11%

Better by far that Landis should come to her than that she should come to him, so Donnegan had rented two tents by the day at an outrageous figure from the enterprising real estate company of The Corner and to this new home he brought the girl.

after Occurrences 8%

"Will somebody tell me," said Smith, as we sat on the logs in front of our tent after supper, smudging away the musquitoes with our pipes, "will somebody tell me what we came into this wilderness among these musquitoes, and frogs, and owls for?

from Occurrences 7%

Thousands gathered around his tent from the valleys and fastnesses.

within Occurrences 7%

In order to which, the English, who had now learned not too negligently to commit their lives to the mercy of savage nations, raised a kind of fortification with stones, and built their tents within it.

like Occurrences 7%

Men all sit in tent like so."

among Occurrences 6%

"It is mournful," writes he, "to see so many noble, tender, and aspiring minds deserted of that light which once guided all such; mourning in the darkness because there is no home for the soul; or, what is worse, pitching tents among the ashes, and kindling weak, earthly lamps which we are to take for stars.

as Occurrences 6%

And the Boy kept looking down at Nig, and the birds sang, and the locust whirred, and the hot sun filled the tent as high-tide flushes a sea-cave.

over Occurrences 5%

It was the kind of crib that has a lofty tent over it made of a gauzy stuff that you can see through.

along Occurrences 5%

Huh! just like Slippery Steve to get out of the hard work we've going to have cutting enough brush for making our shanty shelter tonight; seeing that we didn't fetch our bully old tent along this trip.

before Occurrences 5%

He realized the risk he was running in handling fire in a circus tent before crowds of people.

during Occurrences 5%

But what's to prevent more of those vermin from crawling into the tent during the night?" "Such thing very unusual.

until Occurrences 4%

Even the sick had no covering but tents until January.

than Occurrences 3%

In passing through villages (which in this part are very numerous, and formed of a much greater collection of tents than those described in a former letter), we were received by a great concourse of men, women, and children, shouting, and making a noise exactly resembling the whoop of the North American savages.

between Occurrences 3%

Carpets of flowers; green grass; waterfalls; a thatched hut to the twenty square miles, with a scattering of mean black tents between; every stone building in ruins; goats where fat kine ought to be; and a more or less modern railway screeching across the landscape, short of fuel and oil.

beside Occurrences 3%

But Arthur, looking downward as he past, Felt the light of her eyes into his life Smite on the sudden, yet rode on, and pitch'd His tents beside the forest.

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