Which preposition to use with adjusting

to Occurrences 110%

The craft is turned bottom upwards, the yoke adjusted to the shoulders, the iron projections fitted into the sockets, and the boatman marches off with his boat, like a turtle with his shell upon his back.

in Occurrences 22%

All these dangers and difficulties will be avoided by trying, for a single year, the experiment which is now proposed; and which, if that should fail, may be better adjusted in the time of leisure, which the beginning of the next session will undoubtedly afford; before which time I am afraid no amendment can possibly be made.

at Occurrences 13%

When and where the career of these germs of being, starting from points so wide asunder, are to meet, and how the balances of good and evil, of suffering and enjoyment of sinning and retribution, are to be adjusted at last?

between Occurrences 11%

] All difficulties were at last adjusted between the parties; and the king allowed Becket to return, on conditions which may be esteemed both honourable and advantageous to that prelate.

on Occurrences 9%

" Arm in arm we sailed forth, as gay and festiv as a pair of turkle dovesHORRIS with his panterloons stuffed in his bute legs, and the undersined with his specturcals adjusted on his nose.

for Occurrences 8%

Of this, at least, we are certain, that the bill can produce no ill consequences; and that if the experience of the ensuing year shall show it to be ineffectual, it may be amended in the next session by new provisions, which we shall be then more able to adjust for the benefit of the publick.

with Occurrences 8%

" Mrs. Katz adjusted with greater security the expanse of white napkin across her ample bosom.

by Occurrences 7%

He quitted, at the same time, all his practice in the city, and confined it to the poor of his neighbourhood, and his visits to the Hôtel-Dieu; but his weakness increasing, he was forced to increase his quantity of wine, which yet he always continued to adjust by weight .

of Occurrences 6%

There was no slow adjusting of himself to the requirements of the day.

as Occurrences 3%

It had a mechanism as daintily adjusted as a lady's watch and much more accurate, and when being towed by its attendant automobile, which has harnessed within it the power of a hundred and odd draft horses, it has been known to cover sixty English miles in an hour, for all that its weight is that of very many loaded vans.

without Occurrences 3%

Their relations with one another, with their brethren of the seaboard, and with the Federal Government, likewise had to be adjusted without much chance of profiting by antecedent experience.

about Occurrences 2%

Having done this without much difficulty he called out for splints, and when some pieces of thin wood were brought him he had them shaped to his needs, adjusted about them his bandage and made all fast.

through Occurrences 1%

Not one bewildered, wavering, piteous life was adjusted through her efforts that she did not feel that her personal sum of happiness had received an addition.

before Occurrences 1%

The equipment should be carefully adjusted before starting out, and any part that is not comfortable should be rearranged at the first opportunity.

towards Occurrences 1%

When things were thus far adjusted towards a Peace, all other differences were soon accommodated, insomuch that for the future they resolved to live as good Friends and Confederates, and to share between them whatever Conquests were made on either side.

against Occurrences 1%

The whole thing was adjusted against the wall of the room, and then the men brought in the magnetized key to ascertain if their invention would work in practice.

among Occurrences 1%

As a Rhode Island man I regret that the constitutional question in this State can not be adjusted among our own citizens, but as the minority have asked that the sword of the National Executive may be thrown into the scale against the people, it is imperative upon them to make the same appeal to their brethren of the Statesan appeal which they are well assured will not be made in vain.

over Occurrences 1%

As she spoke she adjusted over her head a visorlike woolen cap that left only her face showing.

round Occurrences 1%

The Marshal having read the warrant for their execution, and stated that de Soto was respited sixty and Ruiz thirty days, the ropes were adjusted round the necks of the prisoners, and a slight hectic flush spread over the countenance of each; but not an eye quailed, nor a limb trembled, not a muscle quivered.

Which preposition to use with  adjusting