Which preposition to use with zigzags

of Occurrences 12%

Round him much embryo, much abortion lay, Much future ode, and abdicated play; Nonsense precipitate, like running lead, That slipped through cracks and zigzags of the head; All that on Folly Frenzy could beget, Fruits of dull heat, and sooterkins of wit.

in Occurrences 8%

Gray had told her of the foot-brake only; but her hand encountering the lever of the emergency brake, she grasped it at a hazard and shoved it forward, as the god of luck had ordered, just short of a zigzag in the steep mountain road which, at the speed they had been making, would have piled them, a mass of wreckage, beneath the cliff.

through Occurrences 8%

Dragon-flies shoot in vigorous zigzags through the dancing swarms, and a rich profusion of butterfliesthe leguminosae of insectsmake a fine addition to the general show.

across Occurrences 7%

Cow-paths, marked only by the worn edges of the bushes, run in zigzags across the hillside and up to the plateau.

with Occurrences 6%

The guns had to pass down from Kustul by a series of zigzags with hairpin bends in full view of enemy observers, and it was only by the greatest exertion and devotion to duty that the gunners got their teams into the neighbourhood of the wadi.

up Occurrences 6%

The primary object of the Hun scheme was, doubtless, to make Beersheba a suitable base for an attack on the Suez Canal, and the manner of improving the Hebron road, of setting road engineers to construct zigzags up hills so that lorries could move over the road, was part of the plan of men whose vision was centred on cutting the Suez Canal artery of the British Empire's body.

to Occurrences 5%

After traversing a number of beautiful glades we entered the Firsthe Black Forest as it is called,where bears are hunted in the winter, and through which the road ascends by a series of zigzags to the summit of the Col de Portillon (4275 ft.), and then descends for a short distance to the frontier, marked by a huge boulder, with the French flag on one side and the Spanish on the other.

from Occurrences 5%

Some eight or ten miles inland the rolling plain curved upwards with a steeper slope until it ran into a line of red basaltic rock which zigzagged from north to south, heaping itself up at one point into a fantastic knoll.

along Occurrences 4%

The road ran above it, zigzag along the hill-side.

en Occurrences 2%

Máquina Singer 107W1, para sobrehilar y hacer puntadas de zigzag en telas y cueros finos, por L. O. Harnecker.

about Occurrences 2%

I like to zigzag about.

like Occurrences 1%

"Some look like white Crows, and the others go zigzag like big Barn Swallows.

amidst Occurrences 1%

Forked lightnings zigzagged amidst the rigging.

on Occurrences 1%

The famous zigzag on the steep ridge between Dharahiyeh and Dilbeih was in good condition, and you saw German thoroughness in the gradients, in the well-banked bends, and in the masonry walls which held up the road where it had been cut in the side of a hill.

over Occurrences 1%

How exquisite!" He drew up at the side of the long white road that zigzagged over the moor, and they went together into the springy heath, wading in it after the waxen flowers.

toward Occurrences 1%

Slevin, however, seemed made of rubber; he was up again almost instantly, and zigzagging toward the shelter of the nearest rocks.

by Occurrences 1%

Thence hug the coast to your port; zigzag by day and night after passing, Long.

between Occurrences 1%

There was just room enough for the road and the wild stream which wound its way zigzag between the hills, affording the most beautiful mountain-view along the whole route.

down Occurrences 1%

At other times, they found their way through thickets of manzanita and buckthorn, along the mountain's flank; or, winding zigzag down some narrow canyon wall, made themselves at home under the slender, small-trunked alders; and added to the stores that Croesus packed, many a lusty trout from the tumbling, icy torrent.

for Occurrences 1%

"Irregular lines of deep yellow clay trenches zigzag for miles.

amongst Occurrences 1%

From hence I walked at the same rapid pace along Piccadilly, insinuating myself among the crowd with the skill born of long acquaintance with the London streets, crossed amidst the seething traffic at the Circus, darted up Windmill Street and began to zigzag amongst the narrow streets and courts of Soho.

into Occurrences 1%

Late in the afternoon, Zeb White, Smith's oldest skinner, having exchanged all of his hard coin for liquid refreshment, zigzagged into the corral, crawled under a wagon, and went to sleep.

Which preposition to use with  zigzags