Which preposition to use with tracing

of Occurrences 2786%

He took us one day to the Luxembourg Gardens, to see if he could find any trace of the spot where in 1815 during the Restoration Marshal Ney had been shot.

in Occurrences 286%

PENJOHNSON, it shall be noticed, is a Southerner, while young GOOD was strongly Northern in sentiment; and it requires no straining of a point to trace in these known facts a sectional antagonism to which even a long war has not yielded full sanguinary satiation."

to Occurrences 266%

Further account of OkalbiaThe Field of Roses Curious superstition concerning that flowerThe pleasures of smell traced to association, by a Glonglim philosopher.

on Occurrences 74%

Blood could be traced on the white shell path leading to the rose-fields, and the pond gate was wide open.

with Occurrences 68%

" "This writing was indistinctly traced with a burnt stick, on a blank leaf torn out of a book.

of Occurrences 41%

We will glance over them, and in doing so will view them, not merely as signatures, but also as permanently-recorded tracings of Dickens's nerve muscular actionof his gesture.

from Occurrences 37%

Indeed, I think the careful reader may trace from the date of Ashdown a decided unwillingness on the part of the Danes to meet Alfred, except when they could catch him at disastrous odds.

through Occurrences 29%

This arm must be of considerable length, as it can be seen for a long distance, and its valley can be traced through the mountains much farther than the lake itself can be seen.

for Occurrences 22%

They are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions or phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinions of their own; and thus the sons of eminent fathers, who have spared no pains in their education, so often grow up mere parroters of what they have learnt, incapable of using their minds except in the furrows traced for them.

behind Occurrences 21%

Accordingly, in the very early days of Christianity the Sabbath fell more and more into the background, yet not without leaving some traces behind it (see art.

between Occurrences 13%

We cannot agree with him in his censure of the comparison of a student advancing in science, with a traveller passing the Alps, which is, perhaps, the best simile in our language; that, in which the most exact resemblance is traced between things, in appearance, utterly unrelated to each other.

at Occurrences 10%

The whiskey-runner could trace at a road gait the narrow tracks along the winding road.

than Occurrences 9%

As regards the universal medicine, said to depend on alchemical research, we discover no earlier or plainer traces than in this author, and in Aeneas Gazeus, another Greek writer, towards the close of the same century; nor among the physicians and materialists, from Moses to Geber the Arab, who is supposed to have lived in the seventh century.

among Occurrences 9%

A queer sort of genealogy might be traced among Southern families through their mixtures of tableware.

as Occurrences 8%

To conceive of memory materially at all one must admit some sort of memory trace as the basis for the persistence of memory.

beyond Occurrences 6%

From observations made on the spot by Mr. Bruguière in the former state of Algiers, the great chain which several geographers traced beyond the Little Atlas under the name of Great Atlas does not exist.

across Occurrences 6%

She only saw a little square of lawn and lace, but the name traced across one corner was 'Evadne'!

by Occurrences 5%

Its direction and borders may be easily traced by raising the leg,a movement which puts the muscle in action.

over Occurrences 5%

At the present time, Professor Lowell states that this "curious triangulation has been traced over almost every portion of the planet's surface, whether dark or light, whether greenish, ochre, or brown in colour."

in Occurrences 4%

They are too many and too swift; how many you would not believe without seeing the footprint tracings in the sand.

without Occurrences 3%

In this the secondary laminar ridges were clearly indicated, and the active layer of the rete Malpighii could be traced without a break from one ingrowing epithelial process to the next, and around this, following all the irregularities of its outline, and covering the branches of the nascent laminæ.

like Occurrences 3%

The line of the river could be traced like a thread of silver; indeed, one of the party thought that he distinguished the spires of the capital.

along Occurrences 2%

The discovery of gold having extended so far north in Queensland had raised a hope that its existence would be traced along the promontory.

above Occurrences 2%

With my utmost endeavours, I have not been able to trace above two Objections ever made against the truth of my last year's Prophecies.

against Occurrences 2%

Forking out, however, directly over where I clung desperately to the wet hawser, my eyes were able to trace the bow-sprit, a massive bit of timber, with ropes faintly traced against the sky, the rather loosely furled jib flapping ragged edges in the gusts of wind.

Which preposition to use with  tracing