Which preposition to use with tread

on Occurrences 222%

Jack Vance was seized by a band of applauding comrades, who, with his head about a couple of feet lower than his heels, carried him in triumph across the playground, and staggered half-way up the steep garden path, when Acton happening to tread on a loose pebble brought the whole procession to grief, and caused the noble band of conquering heroes to be seen all grovelling in a mixed heap upon the gravel.

Of Occurrences 211%

And, in fancy, the tread Of vanishing shoon Out in the night with the Dead.

in Occurrences 92%

All I ask, is the Priviledge for my Masculine Part the Poet in me, (if any such you will allow me) to tread in those successful Paths my Predecessors have so long thriv'd in, to take those Measures that both the Ancient and Modern Writers have set me, and by which they have pleas'd the World so well:

under Occurrences 44%

Fortunately, neither sheep nor cattle care to feed on the manzanita, spiraea, or adenostoma; and these fine honey-bushes are too stiff and tall, or grow in places too rough and inaccessible, to be trodden under foot.

with Occurrences 28%

" A great deal of unnecessary coughing, which follows this physiological exposition, causes Mr. BUMSTEAD to breathe hard at them all for a moment, and tread with great malignity upon Mr. SMYTHE'S nearest corn.

into Occurrences 14%

Empires have been overturned, crowns trodden into dust, the face of the Western world quite changed; your friends have all got old, those you left blooming, myself (who am one of the few that remember you)those golden hairs which you recollect my taking a pride in, turned to silvery and gray.

to Occurrences 10%

There was something the matter with Mr. MorrisI knew by the worried sound of his voice when he spoke to any one, I could not see his face, though it was as light as day about us, for we had got jammed in the crowd, and if I had not kept between his feet, I should have been trodden to death.

from Occurrences 8%

Tawil overlooks a track which has been trodden from time immemorial.

without Occurrences 6%

And these golden trails, though inevitably they brought him trail fellows like Honeycutt, like Swen Brodie, were none the less paths in which a man's feet might tread without shame and in which the mire might be left to one side.

along Occurrences 5%

The wild waves come tumbling in, their glad shouts ringing through the midnight stillness with the same zest as of yore; and the same starry skies, which looked down on the fair maiden of a century ago, still bend over her children's children, as they tread along life's rugged way.

for Occurrences 4%

the farmers, all around, had a tough time getting their harvests home, because every hand was treading for mussels in the creeks and small rivers for thirty miles around Carson.

through Occurrences 4%

That walk was to be the most fateful his feet had ever trodden through field and wood, yet it seemed the most accidental of gallantries.

by Occurrences 4%

Your prayers for the safe and happy introduction of freedom, upon a soil long trodden by the foot of slavery, may be turned into praisesfor the event has come to pass.

as Occurrences 4%

" Mrs. Bloomfield signed for silence, and quitted the room with the same light tread as that with which she had entered it.

behind Occurrences 3%

Strolling the edge of that park so close to the water that she could hear it seethe in the receding, a policeman finally took to following Mrs. Ross, his measured tread behind hers, his night-stick rapping out every so often.

among Occurrences 3%

No longer do the feet of their children tread among the flowers; fever has paralyzed their strength, and vainly does the mother call upon the child, whose eyes wander in delirium, who knows not her voice from a stranger's.

over Occurrences 3%

As I look along the wooded brook-side by which he used to come, I should not be surprised, if I saw that knit, wiry, light figure moving with quick, firm, leopard tread over the grass,the keen gray eye, the clustering fair hair, the kind, serious smile, the mien of undaunted patience.

out Occurrences 2%

If these speculations seem fantastical to thee, reader(a busy man, perchance), if I tread out of the way of thy sympathy, and am singularly-conceited only, I retire, impenetrable to ridicule, under the phantom cloud of Elia.

down Occurrences 2%

These are great incentives; not for any of these, but for the plain satisfaction of living, of being about their business in some sort or other, do the brave, serviceable men of every nation tread down the nettle danger, and pass flyingly over all the stumbling-blocks of prudence.

Within Occurrences 2%

With brazen, impious feet they dare not tread Within the precincts of this sacred grove

beneath Occurrences 2%

Violence has been framed into a law, and the poor slave is trodden beneath the feet of the powerful.

like Occurrences 2%

Ere evening to be trodden like the grass, Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure; when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low!

about Occurrences 1%

Their discretion was like the hushed tread about a sick-bed.

at Occurrences 1%

Presently she sat erect, her heart leaping with inexpressible relief, at the sound of a heavy tread at the edge of the glade.

around Occurrences 1%

Whilst the younger folks danced, the fathers of the hamlet walked on tiptoe with fearful tread around the house, looking at the faded family portraits.

Which preposition to use with  tread