Which preposition to use with tributaries

of Occurrences 206%

The largest of this group, the Muir, has upward of 200 tributaries, and a width below the confluence of the main tributaries of about twenty-five miles.

to Occurrences 140%

When a mother steps out into life in this large way, makes education and training tributary to her mother-life, and does not stop growing intellectually or spiritually,her charm as a woman increases, instead of diminishes, every year of her married life.

in Occurrences 8%

All the Sierra rivers and their tributaries in these high regions are thus lost every winter, as if another glacial period had come on.

from Occurrences 8%

Ascending a granite hill of 150 feet elevation, the plain was observed to the eastward to extend to the horizon, only broken by one remarkable bold trap hill at the distance of twenty miles, which was eventually named Mount Gould, the main Murchison flowing round its southern base, while a considerable tributary from the north-east passed close under it to the north-west.

for Occurrences 6%

His project is practically to restore, with technical improvements, the ancient system of canals and drains, using the Euphrates water to irrigate everything west of the Tigris (down to Kut) and the Shatt-el-Hai, and the water of the Tigris and its tributaries for districts east of that line.

on Occurrences 3%

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long, and in November, after the recovery of my mother, I went up the Republican River and its tributaries on a trapping expedition in company with Dave Harrington.

unto Occurrences 3%

The Hippinians and the Samnites Sylla brought As tributaries unto famous Rome: Ay, where did Sylla ever draw his sword, Or lift his warlike hand above his head For Romans' cause, but he was conqueror?

At Occurrences 2%

Rather thy reedy brook Taw's tributary At midnight murmuring, Descried them, the delicate Dark-eyed goddesses, There by his cressy bed Dissolved and dreaming Dreams that distilled into dew All the purple of night, All the shine of a planet.

without Occurrences 1%

Beyond doubt at first the Roman government intended, in imposing taxes on their subjects, not strictly to enrich themselves, but only to cover the cost of administration and defence; but they already deviated from this course, when they made Macedonia and Illyria tributary without undertaking the government or the guardianship of the frontier there.

above Occurrences 1%

There is a romantic and exquisitely beautiful spot on the banks of one of the tributaries above referred tolong stretch of mingled woodland and meadow, with a magnificent lake lying like a gem in its green bosomwhich goes by the name of the Mustang Valley.

than Occurrences 1%

Already in 567 the Carthaginian government offered to pay up at once the whole instalments stipulated in the peace of 553an offer which the Romans, who attached far more importance to the having Carthage tributary than to the sums of money themselves, naturally declined, and only deduced from it the conviction that, in spite of all the trouble they had taken, the city was not ruined and was not capable of ruin.

with Occurrences 1%

She ascended the tributary with all the wonderful skill at her command.

of Occurrences 1%

Bain, A.: The Emotions and the Will. Baker, S.W.: The Albert N'yanza: Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia.

Which preposition to use with  tributaries