Which preposition to use with tided

of Occurrences 930%

Under all the tides of conquest and endeavor but one fact shines supreme: the steady progress of the Cross.

in Occurrences 94%

a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

at Occurrences 38%

The day was fair, the tide at the flood; in the woods, across the water, I could see where Netley Abbey, another Cistercian house, younger than Beaulieu, once lifted up its voice in ceaseless praise of God, the Maker of all that beauty in which it stood, scarcely spoiled even now by the amazing energy of the modern world.

over Occurrences 27%

His eyes never lost their dancing light, and he was ready ever with some quip or whimsy to tide over the worst troubles.

on Occurrences 25%

They divide the area included between highwater-mark and lowwater-mark of spring tides (which is very extensive, on account of the great rise and fall of the tide on the Normandy coast about St. Malo, where their observations were made) into four zones, each characterized by its peculiar invertebrate inhabitants.

to Occurrences 21%

With such a crazy Statesman as you be, them 'ere little Alabarmy claims would have been squared up long ago, or else, if this court knows herself intimately, the British lion would have been sent off howlin', with a tin kittle tide to his cordil appendage.

with Occurrences 13%

And in some parts of the Continent churches are adorned at Christmas-tide with the amaranth, as a symbol "of that immortality to which their faith bids them look.

for Occurrences 11%

After drifting with the tide for six or seven hours the trawl is hauled up, the marketable fish are picked out, the others thrown away, and the trawl sent overboard for another operation.

from Occurrences 11%

But the source of the great body of the sea-language might be marked out on the map by a current flowing out of the Straits of Gibraltar and meeting a similar tide from the Baltic, the two encountering and blending in the North Sea and circling Great Britain, while not forgetting to wash the dykes of Holland as they go.

against Occurrences 10%

Thus, for the King's service, as willingly I lay them down as, for his service, I took them up.' CHAPTER VIII GUARDING THE LOYALISTS 1782-1783 Burgoyne's surrender marked the turning of the tide against the British arms.

as Occurrences 4%

But they were so far from being affrighted, that they regarded the violence of the rushing tide as something in their favor, and, sailing forward immediately and without delay, they defeated Hiero, king of Syracuse, with so much rapidity that he owned he was conquered before he saw the enemy.

across Occurrences 4%

The low rippling wash of the tide across the pebbly shore was in his ears; the salt wind was in his throat.

near Occurrences 4%

Strong Tide near Reid's Rocks.

into Occurrences 4%

For several years, therefore, the current of emigration which started out of the eastern states, the instant peace was proclaimed, poured its tide into the counties mentioned in our opening chaptercounties as they are to-day; county ay, and fragment of a county, too, as they were then.

by Occurrences 4%

His attempts to provide a remedy led him to write Unto this Last (1860), his first and most complete work on political economy, Munera Pulveris (1863), Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne (1868), Fors Clavigera (1871-1884), which is a long series of letters to workingmen, and a number of other works, that also present his views on social questions.

about Occurrences 3%

And then, again, as once long weeks before, she felt their Being as a tide about her.

among Occurrences 3%

The coast at Branscombe is wildly beautiful, and an interesting ramble may be taken at low tide among the masses of rock that form a sort of undercliff; the miniature valleys between are carpeted with rare and beautiful flowers.

before Occurrences 3%

That isn't the mettle which for two weeks stopped up the German tide before the Liege forts, giving the allies two weeks to mobilize, and all they had asked the Belgians for was two or three days of grace.

between Occurrences 3%

It is but the rest of the tide between the ebb and the flow!

like Occurrences 3%

This question, which had nothing to do with my present condition, somehow got into my mind, and was tossed up and down upon the tumultuous tide like a stray log on the breast of a fiercely rolling stream, now submerged, now coming uppermost, at the mercy of the waters.

up Occurrences 3%

"Do bridgeman sleep on full tide up this way?

within Occurrences 3%

" The Kentuckian took his pardner's brown hand with a gentle solemnity, seemed about to say something, but stopped, and turned his bronzed face to the flood, carried back upon some sudden tide within himself to those black days on the trail, that he wanted most in the world to forget.

under Occurrences 2%

For a long time we hung there, the waves rolling smoothly under us and crashing against the steep bank of sand just in front, as a stormy sea crashes against a south-coast esplanade at full tide under a south-west wind.

without Occurrences 2%

On approaching within a mile and a half of the Cape we passed through a strong rippling tide without having soundings with fifteen fathoms.

after Occurrences 2%

So spring-tide after spring-tide Tom searches, and all the more carefully because others are searching too, for waifs and strays from the wreck.

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