Which preposition to use with whiff

of Occurrences 123%

Even as I reach up toward the bolt, the door is violently shaken, and I get a sickly whiff of mouldy air, which seems to drive in through the interstices of the doorway.

from Occurrences 17%

Dear, silenced laughs can come back on a whiff from a florist's shop.

at Occurrences 4%

Old Tomah's sleep was sound as usual that night; so he could not see the five shadows that stole out of the woods, nor hear the light footfalls that circled his camp, nor feel the breath, soft as an eddy of wind in a spruce top, that whiffed at the crack under his door and drifted away again.

with Occurrences 3%

" "And you don't know how I wanted to have a whiff with the fellows," said Harry, dolefully.

on Occurrences 2%

Martha Ledbetter (W) & Alan Lomax (A & C); 16Jul64; R341411. Take a whiff on me, new words and new music adaptation by Huddie Ledbetter.

like Occurrences 2%

Every now and again I seem to scent strange whiffs like that ... and there is a purple vapour in the East which glows and glows ... just see if you can see it....' I flew across the room to an east window, threw up the grimy sash, and looked.

in Occurrences 2%

" "Well, now, to think o' your asking me such a question, just as if I was ever known to take so much as a whiff in working hoursno, not in the tool-house, nor nowhere.

by Occurrences 1%

Let them "camp out" once again, by the ocean, and plunge in the billow, and rove on the sands; Know the true British brine-whiff by experience.

for Occurrences 1%

Meanwhile, the tides were bearing St. Piran and his millstone out into the Atlantic, and he whiffed for mackerel all the way.

into Occurrences 1%

The petroleum-launch was washed from the davits; down at one time to 40° below zero sank the thermometer; while a high aurora was whiffed into a dishevelled chaos of hues, resembling the smeared palette of some turbulent painter of the skies, or mixed battle of long-robed seraphim, and looking the very symbol of tribulation, tempest, wreck, and distraction.

to Occurrences 1%

Sweet nobility in reversion, Block, by the commission of his head, conjures you and withal binds you, by all the tricks that pages pass in time of Parliament, as swearing to the pantable, crowning with custards, paper-whiffs to the sleepers' noses, cutting of tags, stealing of torches, cum multis aliistell, Block, what block you have cast in the way of my lady's content! ROB.

Which preposition to use with  whiff