Which preposition to use with vacations

of Occurrences 37%

So, for many Saturdays and vacations of boyhood years J.W. and Marty had roamed the countryside, and were letter-perfect in their boy-knowledge of the old farm.

in Occurrences 36%

The Chambers met, after a short vacation in November, at last in Paris, and already there were so many interpellations announced on every possible subject, so many criticisms on the policy of the cabinet, and

at Occurrences 35%

Having understood that there was an academy in the neighbourhood, in which youths of maturer years were instructed in the fine arts, we were induced to visit it; but there being a vacation at that time, we could see neither the professors nor students, and consequently could gain little information of the course of discipline and instruction pursued there.

from Occurrences 21%

Long vacation is here a vacation from pleasure, as well as business; nor is there any mode of passing the listless evenings of declining summer, but in the riots of a tavern, or the stupidity of a coffee-house.

with Occurrences 16%

" They assured him it would please them beyond measure to contemplate spending part of their next summer vacation with him, when they could investigate still further the many delightful mysteries of the Adirondack wilderness.

to Occurrences 13%

Some natives had come from Ikpe to see her before she went on her vacation to Scotland.

for Occurrences 10%

There's no vacation for the paper, no hyphens, no skipping a day or two if it has a bad cold; it's the tyrant that leads its slaves by the nose, metaphorically, and has no conscience.

on Occurrences 5%

Twelve crusaders were chosen from the thirty-three students who volunteered for dangerous service during a summer vacation on the Vassar College farm.

before Occurrences 4%

So they canvassed the wedding, and Patsy proposed they transfer the paper to Thursday and Hettyto become a weekly instead of a dailyin a week's time, and celebrate the wedding immediately after the second issue, so as to give the bridal couple a brief vacation before getting to work again.

without Occurrences 3%

Dick True was in the brotherhood also, and never came home for his vacations without bringing with him "some fellow who needed a taste of love," and the overgrown boys would glory in their strength as they lifted Miss Diana from the carriage after a delightful drive, and learn a strange gentleness as they were unconsciously trained in the little deeds of chivalry which bespeak a true man.

within Occurrences 2%

Chapter 7: A Vacation within a Vacation Chapter 8: Earthworms Chapter 9: Spiders Chapter 10: Crocodile Dundee Chapter 11: Learning to Teach Chapter 12: You Have Sight, I Have Vision Chapter 13: Surveying a Forest Chapter 14: Chief Guest At Belgaum Chapter 1: A Fish Shop in Mapusa You must try to understand that when I finished school I was as raw as raw could be.

among Occurrences 2%

Wordsworth proved to be a very ordinary scholar, following his own genius rather than the curriculum, and looking forward more eagerly to his vacation among the hills than to his examinations.

like Occurrences 1%

I had dreamed in my girlhood of vacations like the one I was enjoying, but the dream had never been fulfilled before.

as Occurrences 1%

And he added that I was sent in vacation as a punishment for my misdoing.

by Occurrences 1%

"Possibly if you have earned the vacation by working beforehand.

after Occurrences 1%

It was during his vacation after the year at Lund that Linnæus made a catalogue of the plants in his father's garden at Stenbrohult that shows us the country parson as no mean botanist himself; for in the list, which is preserved in the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, are no less than two hundred and twenty-four kinds of plants.

than Occurrences 1%

Besides that, I have read and painted more or less and sewed a good deal; on the whole, have had more vacation than work, at least one looking on would say so.

until Occurrences 1%

So had passed the winters and vacations until the fall of '57, without recurrence of my trouble.

Which preposition to use with  vacations