Which preposition to use with tier

of Occurrences 119%

For in many of the stores, is there not an upper tier of windows for our use?

on Occurrences 17%

She illustrated how anyone embarrassed by the possession of more than one pencil could range them in tiers on the ivory horns above the head of the Woeful One.

above Occurrences 10%

Around five sides of the hexagon were seats, tier above tier, appropriated to the public who wish to see as well as hear.

after Occurrences 6%

Tier after tier of lights had begun to prick out in the back-drop of skyscraping office-buildings.

to Occurrences 2%

Great buildings, square or oblong in form, the stage placed at one end, the arched boxes or galleries from which the spectators look down thereon rising tier above and behind tier to the further extremity, are constantly filled.

by Occurrences 2%

All the population was in the square and on the roofs that mount above it, tier by tier, against the wooded hillside: Moulay Idriss had better to do that day than to gape at a few tourists in dust-coats.

for Occurrences 1%

There were martial marchings in the streets beneath; great guns thundered out rejoicings; flags filled the air with crimson and blue, like an aurora; she only sat and made little frocks and tiers for the brothers and sisters.

in Occurrences 1%

At the same moment a monk's voice shouted from the highest tiers in the theatre, "It is false!

into Occurrences 1%

The great lake shone like a sapphire; meadows of emerald, woods of darker green, hills of purple and grey, silver and gold, rose from the bosom and the edge of the great liquid jewel; the hills towering tier on tier into the heavens of azure blue swept by clouds like drifting snow.

near Occurrences 1%

In a tier near the ground a man is standing and callingstanding head and shoulders above the restcallimg in the Américaine tongue.

over Occurrences 1%

The bunks were arranged tier over tier and nearly always without mattresses.

towards Occurrences 1%

As the gondola entered the canal of San Marco, the sails of the felucca fell, and the low Calabrian vessel stole along the tiers towards the clear water beyond.

up Occurrences 1%

The whitewashed houses of solid stone, rising tier above tier up the naked limestone mountainside, still testify to the prosperity which chance thus suddenly brought to the Hydhriots and their fellow islanders, and did not withdraw again till it had enabled them to play a decisive part in their nation's history.

with Occurrences 1%

The carcases are stowed in tiers with wooden battens between the tiersit looks a triumph of orderly stowage, and I have great hope that it will ensure fresh mutton throughout our winter.

against Occurrences 1%

Entering the bunk-house, they saw a long table covered with white oilcloth and a line of bunks built in two tiers against the wall opposite the door.

along Occurrences 1%

In a few minutes more he was quite close, all of a sudden, to the great front, rising gray and dim in the feeble light, and not till he could have struck it with his good oak "wattle" did he discover it to be only one of those wild, gray frontages of living rock that rise here and there in picturesque tiers along the slopes of those solitary mountains.

as Occurrences 1%

He has but to lend himself to the contagion of the place, and he will see the circle of ten thousand eager eyes thirsting for his blood, fill up the ruined benches and arched tiers as of yore, and hear the savage murmur of human voices, worse than the dull roar of the beasts below.

at Occurrences 1%

In the upper tier at the left, near the foyer. ALEXANDER.

below Occurrences 1%

I sprang to my feet and, looking over, saw a young and beautiful woman lying fearfully near the edge of one of the most insecure of the projecting ledges on the tier below methe very one from which I had myself nearly fallen, only a few days before, in stretching over after some asphodels which were beyond my reach.

Which preposition to use with  tier