Which preposition to use with villa

of Occurrences 101%

The trick of the feigned Turks is discovered by the arrival at the villa of Baltazer, Julia's father.

at Occurrences 88%

Old coins, a flint battle-axe, some Roman pottery are also shown, along with descriptions and pictures of the Roman villa at Brading and other Roman remains.

in Occurrences 59%

Everybody led the same life and we saw each other all day, hunting, riding, driving, in the villas in the afternoon, generally finishing at the Pincio, where there was music.

on Occurrences 43%

Some "city folks" did hold villas on the outskirts, but they used them only for short seasons in the late summer, when the air at the lake began to grow too sharp for outdoor pleasures.

with Occurrences 23%

I remember walking round and round the vegetable garden at the back of the Villa with an Italian friend of mine, trying both to face the facts and to draw some comfort from them.

near Occurrences 20%

For the night he stayed at his villa near that place, and next morning would not move, exclaiming: "Let me die in my own countrythat country which I have so often saved."

for Occurrences 6%

But that century did not close until real dangers stared the people in the face, and so alarmed the guardians of the Empire that they no longer could retire to their secluded villas for luxurious leisure, but were forced to perpetual warfare, and with foes they had hitherto despised.

to Occurrences 5%

Francesco de' Pazzi at once obtained Cavaliere Giacopo's permission to offer the hospitality of his villa to his youthful eminence and his suite.

as Occurrences 5%

He has elsewhere referred to Villa as the "arch-fiend" in the matter of torturing the unhappy Spaniards as well as the Filipinos who incurred his ill-will.

without Occurrences 3%

After a time Mrs. Heron came down again, and Ida heard her and her husband talking togetheryou couldn't whisper in one room of Laburnum Villa without being heard in another oneand presently the drawing-room door opened and John Heron entered; Ida had waited, for she had expected him.

than Occurrences 3%

They are plain neat wooden houses, in capaciousness more like villas than cottages.

along Occurrences 3%

The villas along the shore towards Posilippo face the sun all day in winter, for they look due south from the water's edge, and their marble steps lead down into the tideless sea, as though it were a landlocked lagoon or a Swiss lake.

by Occurrences 3%

CLARKE, ISABEL C. The villa by the sea.

behind Occurrences 2%

Morning broke in summer glory upon a cluster of villas behind the city, nestled under live-oaks and magnolias on the banks of a deep bayou, and known as Suburb St. Jean.

through Occurrences 2%

Let the reader trace villa through each modern feature.

like Occurrences 1%

Judging by the description of it here, it must be a kind of gim-crack villa like those one sees in Italy, built by men resembling thisthis parvenu.

among Occurrences 1%

Whether we can find the remains of this villa among the excavations of Pompeii is very doubtful: but our excellent guide Schmidt assures us that he has good reason for believing that one particular house, just outside the city on the left side of the road in front of the Porta Herculanea, which has for no very convincing reason ever since its excavation in 1763 been called the Villa di Cicerone, really is the house we wish it to be.

beside Occurrences 1%

What bland and leisurely culture could be enjoyed in exquisite villas beside the Mediterranean, or in flourishing municipalities along the Rhone!

from Occurrences 1%

The girl in yellow, on the right of the picture, with her handkerchief in her hand and wearing a rich dress, is Giovanna degli Albizzi, who married Lorenzo Tornabuoni at the Villa Lemmi near Florence, that villa from which Botticelli's exquisite fresco, now in the Louvre at the top of the main staircase, in which she again is to be seen, was taken.

after Occurrences 1%

With his brother Quintus, the old orator had retired to his Tusculan villa after the battle of Mutina; and now they endeavored to escape in the hope of joining Brutus in Macedonia; for the orator's only son was serving as a tribune in the liberator's army.

over Occurrences 1%

In front, at the bottom of the harbour, villa over villa, garden over garden, up to the large and handsome Government House, one of the most delectable spots of all this delectable land; and piled above it, green hill upon green hill, which, the eye soon discovers, are the Sommas of old craters, one inside the other towards the central peak of Mount Maitland, 1700 feet high.

under Occurrences 1%

Villa was already facing the firing squad, and the officer in charge had given the command to load, when President Madero's brother, Emilio, who was serving on Huerta's staff in an advisory capacity, put a stop to the execution by taking Villa under his personal protection.

within Occurrences 1%

The cardinal did not return from Rome until after the first of January, but the duchessa came to see Veronica at Bianca's villa within a few days after Veronica had left her aunt.

Which preposition to use with  villa