Which preposition to use with trotting

to Occurrences 33%

Side by side they trotted to the windfall.

on Occurrences 33%

He or she has made the choice and trotted on his or her two feet to this place or that, only to find happiness was not there as he or she supposed.

along Occurrences 31%

He looked at the wolves a moment, and then walked on; but the animals trotted along with him, still, however, keepin' at a respectful distance.

about Occurrences 29%

He trotted about the bull, the hair along his spine bristling like a brush, his eyes wide and menacing.

after Occurrences 23%

No, it was no fun camping with the temperature at thirty degrees below zerobetter to be trotting after those expensive and dinnerless dogs; and he was glad when they started again.

in Occurrences 19%

"The fact is, the crisis reminds me," said he, of a little story of a horse-trot in Arkansas" "Sir," interrupted I, "it reminds me of a dozen stories, one of AEsop's fables, and two hundred lives of CHAUCER.

at Occurrences 18%

" The man looked indifferently to where a tiny boy trotted at his mother's heels, solemn, old-faced, unchildish.

for Occurrences 16%

A wolf had only to trot for a mile or two along the tide line of a lonely beach, picking up the good things which the sea had brought him, and then go back to sleep or play satisfied.

across Occurrences 16%

The horses were able to maintain their brisk trot across the bridge and through the main street of the town, which was merely a cluster of unimposing frame buildings, that lined either side of the highway for the space of an ordinary city block.

of Occurrences 16%

She knew that he had forgotten in the flurry of his leave-taking, and she would have hastened down the steps to stop the carriage; but all the old ladies were there to see, and she simply stood, and gazed after the vehicle as it rolled away slowly behind the jog trot of Samuel's safe, old calico-horse.

toward Occurrences 15%

We were going through a thick wood, where there was a pretty straight road, when I saw a small, dark creature away ahead, trotting toward us.

by Occurrences 12%

Yes, with a good horse it is as delightful as sitting in a rocking-chair, but, if you were a rider of experience, you would not allow your horse to enter upon the gait without permission, but would bring him back to the trot by slightly pulling first the left rein and then the right, a movement which is called sawing the mouth.

through Occurrences 12%

I was in my troop lines one afternoon, blackguarding a farrier, when a loud nicker sounded on the road and a black cob, bearing a feebly protesting padre upon his fat back, trotted through the gate, up to the lines and began to swop How d'y'do's with my hairies.

down Occurrences 11%

As we trotted down the long straggling street our passenger spoke with feeling of the changes that had taken place in the old mission town.

around Occurrences 10%

But neither would she sleep there, for several times she woke him by trotting around the room, and once when he had got sound asleep by springing on the bed and then off it, so that he woke with a violent start and cried out, but got no answer either, except hearing her trotting round and round the room.

with Occurrences 9%

She followed him obediently when they reached the plain, trotting with her foreshoulder to his hip.

into Occurrences 9%

I have seen the poor, half-paid type-setters strike for their altars, their sires, and more wages, and I have seen a troop of petticoats, with gal children inside them, trot into the type-setter's place, so that the miserable compositors were compelled to return and starve on four or five dollars a day.

over Occurrences 8%

There's an odd number," he added, as Jack Harpe pelted back at a brisk trot over the way he had come.

beside Occurrences 8%

The two little ones were gaily trotting beside the uncle, bursting into wild shouting now and then, for he made such leaps that they flew high into the air sometimes.

from Occurrences 8%

The Bucks Hussars, in column of squadrons extended to four yards interval, advanced at a trot from the wadi, which was 3000 yards distant from the ridge which was their objective.

towards Occurrences 7%

Now, as the Faithful wend their way homewards, bands of cheerful millhands hasten past you to the mills, and are followed by files of Koli fisherfolk,the men unclad and red-hatted, with heavy creels, the women tight-girt and flower-decked, bearing their headloads of shining fish at a trot towards the markets.

round Occurrences 5%

" In an instant Milly's gravity disappeared, and a little time afterwards she was laughing gleefully as she was being trotted round the stable-yard on a large bay mare; but she said to her nurse when she came in, "Major Lovell is very nice, but very funny, and I can't always understand his talk, he says such difficult things.

by Occurrences 5%

Sophie rides sometimes with me: it cheers me to have her trotting by my side.

of Occurrences 4%

It was some time before Euschemon became sensible of the presence of any partner in his captivity, by reason of the trotting of the rats.

before Occurrences 4%

One stout, strapping fellow, with flesh as hard and yellow as a sturgeon's, was seated sideways on a very small donkey, between two immense panniers of fish, As he trotted before us, shouting, and slapping the flanks of the sturdy little beast, José and I began to laugh, whereupon the fellow broke out into the following monologue, addressed to the donkey: "Who laughs at this burrico?

Which preposition to use with  trotting