Which preposition to use with watchings

of Occurrences 25%

And, as a matter of fact, by patient watching of the place at which these infinitesimal living particles were discharged, our observers assured themselves of their growth and development into new monads.

for Occurrences 8%

Miss Prudence had written to her once that some time she would tell her a story about herself; but could she mean this story? As she opened the gate she saw her blue bird with the golden crest perched on the arm of a chair at the window watching for her.

over Occurrences 3%

what weary watchings over the midnight taper would they describe!

at Occurrences 2%

" Marjorie stopped at the gate to toss back a kiss to Prue watching at the window.

by Occurrences 1%

He picked up the book and read again: "'Fasting and praying and lonely watching by night in the great abbey where there are so many dead folk.'

during Occurrences 1%

It involved incessant labour in examining lofty mountain peaks in order to select suitable sites for stations, and subsequently days and nights of anxious watching during the progress of the observations, whilst food and water (when snow was not lying on the ground) were scarce, and mists and clouds hung round the mountains.

in Occurrences 1%

After tedious watching in a cramped position through a gap in the hedge I saw Mr. Diggles emerge from a shed and move away from my direction.

on Occurrences 1%

Always thus, my Princess? Is this wise, By day with fasts and ceaseless coil of labour; About the ungracious poorhands, eyes, feet, brain O'ertasked alike'mid sin and filth, which make Each sense a plagueby night with cruel stripes, And weary watchings on the freezing stone, To double all your griefs, and burn life's candle, As village gossips say, at either end?

to Occurrences 1%

And I made a great circling about that place where the plain of the Silent Ones did come outward; and so did gain to the North-West; and was thence something the happier in my heart; and went easily, and oft upon my feet; yet making a strong watching to every side.

along Occurrences 1%

" Robert was pleased with the idea of the hunted turning into the hunters, and he and Tayoga now did most of the watching along the trail, a watch that was not relaxed either by day or by night.

under Occurrences 1%

I entertained the Company, as we Men of Gallantry generally do, with the many Haps and Disasters, Watchings under Windows, Escapes from jealous Husbands, and several other Perils.

as Occurrences 1%

After such a watching as this, the very eye becomes disordered, as after looking at a bright color it sees a spectrum of a totally different tint; and, when the long looked-for person appears, he himself looks unnatural at first, and strange.

beside Occurrences 1%

They could never be friends again, these two; he had told himself that, not once, but many times during the weary hours of his watching beside John Saltram's sick-bed.

between Occurrences 1%

There passed then, some three hours; and in that time I varied my watching between those far-off Youths, and the Ten-thousand that went forward to succour the wounded, that were now, maybe, scarce nine miles distant from the Mighty Pyramid, and the Ten-thousand came very close to them.

Which preposition to use with  watchings