Which preposition to use with trenching

in Occurrences 109%

To this place families, and when the concern was general, multitudes repaired every year, when, upon this stone, were made libations of wine, oil, honey, and flour; and here they sacrificed and ate in common, having first made a trench in which they burnt the entrails of the victim into which the libation and the blood were made to flow.

on Occurrences 83%

Here she trenches on the province of the real nurse, whose training is thorough, and the little knowledge, as every one knows, is sometimes dangerous.

of Occurrences 45%

"These are the trenches of the dead.

with Occurrences 41%

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am back from four months in the trenches with the French army, and I've come home, now that my own country is at war, to give her every ounce of energy I've got to offer.

at Occurrences 38%

At 3 A.M., after the enemy guns had plentifully sprinkled Umbrella Hill and had given it up as irretrievably lost, we opened a ten-minutes' intense bombardment of the front line, exactly as had been done on preceding mornings, but this time the 161st and 162nd Infantry Brigades followed up our shells and carried 3000 yards of trenches at once.

for Occurrences 36%

A brigade of the 54th Division and the 1st Australian Light Horse Brigade relieved the Scots in the trenches for three nights before the attempt.

to Occurrences 29%

It was fighting at long distance with artillery and from trench to trench with the bayonet.

from Occurrences 21%

The French lines had now approached so close to the place that new additions to them were immediately destroyed or rendered untenable by the fire from the Malakoff and Little Redan; and the shower of small shells, easily cast into the trenches from the ramparts, and called by the French "bouquets," greatly increased their losses.

by Occurrences 14%

Looking across No Man's Land one could easily pick out a line of trenches by a red, a vivid blue, or a saffron sandbag.

before Occurrences 13%

Antony left his brother Lucius in the trenches before Mutina, and took the field against Hirtius and Octavius.

into Occurrences 11%

Thence it led through the front line trenches into the town of Asiago itself.

near Occurrences 10%

The system adopted was to have three fire trenches near the top of the hills, one above the other, so that were the first two lines taken the third would still offer a difficult obstacle, and, if the defenders were armed with bombs, it would be hard for attackers to retain the trenches in front of them.

without Occurrences 9%

Figure 2 shows the same trench deepened in rear, so as to allow men to walk along in the rear (deeper) portion of the trench without exposing their heads above the parapet.

along Occurrences 9%

A two-mile trench system, believed to be impregnable, was stormed by the Allied forces near Thiepval September 17, while south of the Somme the French took the German trenches along a front of three miles.

under Occurrences 8%

The stories told by those who, on the German side, lay in trenches under shell-fire before Verdun for days at a time and week after week, freezing, thirsting, in mud and water, between the dead and the dying, thrilled the hearer with their pathos and devotion.

behind Occurrences 6%

Perhaps he considered his positions impregnablethey would have been practically impregnable in British handsand he made no attempt to cut support trenches behind the crest.

after Occurrences 6%

He walked along the communication trench after his men, and I along the line of my silent sentries.

across Occurrences 5%

The horses not having tasted fresh grass for some days, they cut a slanting trench across the sloping face of the descent in order to afford the horses some sort of foot-hold, and managed to get them down to a little feed that evening.

about Occurrences 4%

Most of the shells contained gas and were designed to destroy the occupants of the trenches about to be stormed.

around Occurrences 4%

The breastwork seemed all too weak now we knew the force which would be brought against it, and we started to dig a trench around it, but so feeble were the men that it was only half completed.

during Occurrences 4%

He looks especially to the regimental officers of all grades to impress upon their men that to work in the trenches during a siege is as necessary and honourable as to fight in the ranks during a battle.

against Occurrences 3%

The little fellow put up a gallant fight and died bravely defending his third line trenches against a vastly superior force.

between Occurrences 3%

It lies, thickly sprinkled with scattered and isolated woodlands, a mighty trench between the heights, not a vast plain but an uneven lowland diversified by higher land but without true hills, and roughly divided west and east into two parts by a great ridge known by various names,

beyond Occurrences 3%

The people of the country were herded in prison camps, in settlements surrounded by stockades or trenches beyond which they might not pass.

as Occurrences 3%

But Boon discovered the attempt, and sunk a trench as a countermine.

Which preposition to use with  trenching