Which preposition to use with traverses

in Occurrences 45%

This wood, we found, was of tall high pines, where walking was not difficult, a wide wilderness of trees which, hour after hour, we traversed in the vain endeavor to find the rough path which our guide told us led for a hundred miles from Alavo down to Tammerfors, the manufacturing center of the country.

to Occurrences 15%

Another member of your party might be among the trees below and suddenly come out into the open, traversing to the other side.

from Occurrences 14%

It was ancient Africa, the mysterious, now explored, traversed from end to end, that attracted him.

on Occurrences 13%

After transacting a little business at the post-office (there is none at St. Sauveur except in the season), which stands in one of the principal streets traversed on the route to Barèges, we returned to St. Sauveur by another way.

with Occurrences 12%

And of a sudden Lanyard suffered the melancholy oppression of knowing his littleness of body and soul, the relative insignificance even of the ship, that impertinent atom of human organization which traversed with unabashed effrontery the waters of the ages, beneath the shining constellations of eternity.

of Occurrences 12%

NEW YORK CITY, U.S.A. CHAPTER XXI THE YOUNG MAN WHO LED PUGS Allerdyke, with a gesture peculiar to him, thrust his hands in the pockets of his trousers, strolled away from the desk on which the register lay open, and going over to the hall door stood there a while, staring out on the tide of life that rolled by, and listening to the subdued rattle of the traffic in its ceaseless traverse of the Strand.

at Occurrences 11%

Rudolph sprang up and raced again, following by habit the path which he and she had traversed at noon.

for Occurrences 9%

Our camp was about four miles above the furthest point attained by Captain Stokes, and consequently in Beagle Valley which we had traversed for more than thirty miles, the greater part of which was well grassed and openly wooded with box, bauhinia, and acacia.

without Occurrences 6%

Thus we traversed without a single mishap the regions of the northeast and of the southeast trades, the stormy seas of the "roaring forties," the fogs of the fifties, the ice-filled sixties, and reached our field of work at the Ice Barrier on January 14, 1911.

between Occurrences 5%

The distance traversed between each impact averages 95/1000000 of a millimetre," and so on with lines of ciphers to overawe the gaping millions with Mr. Laing's minute certainty as to the ultimate constitution of matter.

across Occurrences 4%

It never entered my head that I could traverse across any slope

through Occurrences 4%

True it is that thorns and thistles, ill-favoured and poisonous plants, well named by botanists rubbish plants, mark the track which man has proudly traversed through the earth.

before Occurrences 4%

The bravest of the Thousand, massed together under the last bank, after taking breath and measuring with their eye the space yet to be traversed before crossing swords with the enemy, rushed on like lions, confident of victory and trusting in their sacred cause.

as Occurrences 3%

I had seen her, but she had not seen me, in the dark hall which I must now traverse as a prisoner and a suspect.

during Occurrences 3%

It was of course impossible to measure the distance traversed during the invisibility of the Earth, but I reckoned that I had made above 500 miles between 1h.

after Occurrences 3%

John conducted her to a palace, which had an entrance in that street which Jesus traversed after his first fall; it was, I believe, the residence of the high priest Caiphas, whose tribunal was in the division called Sion.

into Occurrences 2%

Whaley had brought West supplies enough to carry him only to Lookout, where he was to stock for a long traverse into the wilds.

by Occurrences 2%

We saw the trench, with its traverses, and we were shown just how it would be bombed, traverse by traverse.

than Occurrences 1%

The trouble was that he wanted to teach and be listened to; wherefore he was subtly more at home among the ignorant and in such streets as he was now traversing than with educated men.

alongside Occurrences 1%

I went to the end of the traverse alongside the emplacement, and watched the German trenches.

under Occurrences 1%

Grey's reports left doubt as to the precise value of the country he traversed under such trying circumstances, but he is justly credited with the discovery of many rivers on the west coast the Grey, the Buller, the Chapman, the Greenough, the Arrowsmith, the Hutt, the Bowyer, and those important streams, the Murchison and the Gascoyne. 17.3.

until Occurrences 1%

Following up the channel upon which we had encamped, in about an hour it was lost in open grassy plains, which we continued to traverse until noon, when we struck on a well-defined stream-bed, which had branched off a mile or two south of last night's camp.

beyond Occurrences 1%

Not even Schelling or Hegel has gone beyond him in theorizing, or exceeded him in the ground traversed beyond the limits of demonstration.

like Occurrences 1%

The street he traversed like many thoroughfares of its kind was comparatively deserted most of the time; nobody impeded his progress, though one or two people gazed after him from their windows.

en Occurrences 1%

Telle est la vision qui, dans l'heure nous sommes, Emplit le froid cerveau de ce maître des hommes, Et qui fait qu'il ne peut rien voir autour de lui. L'armada, formidable et flottant point d'appui Du levier dont il va soulever tout un monde, Traverse en ce moment l'obscurité de l'onde; Le roi, dans son esprit, la suit des yeux, vainqueur, Et son tragique ennui n'a plus d'autre lueur.

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