Which preposition to use with wind

of Occurrences 571%

A vast rain seemed to come with it, and a wind of a most extraordinary loudnessas though the howling of a nightlong gale, were packed into the space of no more than a minute.

in Occurrences 426%

And hark To the sorrowful cry Of the wind in the dark.

from Occurrences 287%

WHY In the third winter of a world-madness, with Europe guzzling blood and wild with the taste of it, America grew flatulent, stenching winds from the battle-field blowing her prosperity.

through Occurrences 171%

I stood stock still for a moment, during which the only sounds audible were the singing of the winds through the rigging, the wash of the sea, and the small, sharp click of Perdosa's instrument as he worked at the chest.

with Occurrences 119%

Down she bore upon the greater vessel until it seemed as if she must ram; but all the time she was veering to windward, and now she ran into the wind with a castanet rattle of sails.

at Occurrences 108%

With the wind at south-west, I want to get under the Anglesey coast.

on Occurrences 99%

The fact that they had this increasingly favourable wind on their very first day showed that they were specially smiled on by the great natural forces.

to Occurrences 99%

PROVIDENCE tempering the wind to the shorn lamb.

for Occurrences 85%

The paddling is all down stream, except when they turn south up Peel River, and sails should be taken, as there is often a favorable wind for days.

among Occurrences 65%

A long, low, blood-curdling laugh, as if a dozen mocking fiends stood at his elbow,or was it just the shrieking of the wind among the gables?

about Occurrences 57%

It is the fourth bottle, or perhaps the fifth, that seems to free me from the restraints that old habits and early education have wound about me.

around Occurrences 51%

Four or five miles down the lake, is a beautiful bay, stretching for near half a mile around a high promontory, almost reaching another bay winding around a like promontory beyond, leaving a peninsula of five hundred acres joined to the main land, by a narrow neck of some forty rods in width.

along Occurrences 42%

It took two days to repair our wagons and get our baggage readjusted, and finally, on the thirteenth, the army set in motion again, winding along the narrow road through the forest like some gigantic, parti-colored serpent, with strength barely sufficient to drag its great length along.

out Occurrences 42%

He rides down the gulch and winds out of it and strikes for the shack at the ford.

into Occurrences 41%

I was therefore safe, and free to take the wind into my pulses and enjoy the excited forest from my superb outlook.

like Occurrences 41%

"In a wind like this, if the door is open, we have to hold fast to things to keep them from running down the Yukon.

over Occurrences 41%

Back of them the long column came, slowly winding over the sandy highway which curved through the undulating land.

between Occurrences 35%

155 Thy fragrant gales and lute-resounding streams, Breathe o'er the failing soul voluptuous dreams; While Slavery, forcing the sunk mind to dwell On joys that might disgrace the captive's cell, Her shameless timbrel shakes along thy marge, 160 And winds between thine isles the vocal barge.

as Occurrences 29%

The ascending clouds of aroma wind-rolled and rain-washed became pure like light and traveled with the wind as part of it.

by Occurrences 24%

Dave, who had used up so much of his wind by his brilliant footwork, began to find it harder to keep the upper hand.

round Occurrences 18%

The path wound round a densely wooded and sombre hollow, the depths of which the eye could not penetrate, but from out of which came the song of a stream that went cascading down the rocks, and rippling among the loose boulders that lay in its course.

off Occurrences 18%

I wus on the Bombay Castle when she took cholera, an' we hed twenty-one days of it beatin' agin head winds off the Cape.

against Occurrences 16%

The thermometer had fallen many degrees, and the cold wind against damp clothing caused a most unpleasant sensation.

during Occurrences 16%

The prevailing winds during the period of inundation appear to have been from the south-east, as most of the trees blown down while the soil was in a state of saturation lay with their tops to the north-west.

under Occurrences 16%

[Footnote Jj: The river Loiret, which has the honour of giving name to a department, rises out of the earth at a place, called La Source, a league and a half south-east of Orleans, and taking at once the character of a considerable stream, winds under a most delicious bank on its left, with a flat country of meadows, woods, and vineyards on its right, till it falls into the Loire about three or four leagues below Orleans.

Which preposition to use with  wind