Which preposition to use with yankee

in Occurrences 21%

He was neither reckless nor trifling, but I am sure that none of the adulating groups that made much of the handsome Yankee in Richmond that season would have suspected that the young man looked in his mirror night and morning, frowned darkly at the reflected image he saw there, and said, solemnly, "You are a murderer!"

from Occurrences 7%

"I saw you'd got the Englishman in your boat when you came up river; I thought he looked pretty sick," remarked the fisher, who was a Yankee from Long Island Sound.

of Occurrences 4%

Under Providence, Washington owes its safety, 1st, To General Butler, whose genius devised the circumvention of Baltimore and its rascal rout, and whose utter bravery executed the plan;he is the Grand Yankee of this little period of the war.

to Occurrences 2%

We have never seen the drollery of a genuine Yankee to more advantage than in "Say and Seal."

for Occurrences 2%

Was there ever anything,I said,like the Yankee for inventing the most uncouth, pretentious, detestable appellations,inventing or finding them,since the time of Praise-God Barebones?

on Occurrences 2%

Yankee on hill; reg'lar in canoe.

at Occurrences 2%

To think that she is here, and that hateful Yankee at her elbow.

with Occurrences 1%

The next day we met a real live Yankee with a one-horse wagon, peddling tin ware in regular Eastern style, We inquired of him about the road and prospects, and he gave us an encouraging ideasaid all was good.

among Occurrences 1%

Its inhabitants, and those of the surrounding country were mostly Southernersnatives of Kentucky and Tennesseethough there was an occasional Yankee among them.

as Occurrences 1%

soliloquized Mike"The divil burn ye, for a guessing yankee as ye

over Occurrences 1%

Three years later, Captain Ichabod Sheffield, of the schooner Mary Ann, furnished in person an example of the superiority of the Yankee over the Turk.

through Occurrences 1%

Because of his wide family connection, and his father's position, James saw not a little of New England society as it was in those days, pure Yankee through and through.

against Occurrences 1%

"Boys," continued he, "it's only Yankee against Yankee, anyhow; if they're gwine to fight, let the stranger have fair play.

Which preposition to use with  yankee