Which preposition to use with beaded

of Occurrences 123%

I awake with beads of perspiration standing on my forehead, with my heart thumping heavily and with every nerve wide awake, and waiting for the horror which will come.

on Occurrences 60%

In the upper cañons we usually find them in pretty regular succession, strung together like beads on the bright ribbons of their feeding-streams, which pour, white and gray with foam and spray, from one to the other, their perfect mirror stillness making impressive contrasts with the grand blare and glare of the connecting cataracts.

in Occurrences 25%

If in any fowl the moult should seem protracted, examine it for broken feather-stumps still beaded in the skin: if you find any, extract them carefully with a pair of tweezers.

with Occurrences 16%

" Laurella had bought a long chain of red glass beads with a heart-shaped pendant.

from Occurrences 13%

After feeding a minute or two at the bottom, and when one would suppose that he must inevitably be swept far down-stream, he emerged just where he went down, alighted on the same snag, showered the water-beads from his feathers, and continued his unfinished song, seemingly in tranquil ease as if it had suffered no interruption.

to Occurrences 10%

GAZUL IN LOVE Not greater share did Mars acquire of trophies and renown, Than great Gazul took with him from Gelva's castled town; And when he to Sanlucar came his lady welcomed him, His cup of happiness at last was beaded to the brim.

for Occurrences 9%

"Johnnie," she began now, apparently not having heard one word that had been said, "did you ever in your life see anything so cheap as this here string of beads for a dime?

about Occurrences 6%

For where, pray, would Lord Dolphin wear a breastpin, or how would he look with a string of coral beads about his neck, or a bracelet pinched about his tail? You needn't laugh so hard.

around Occurrences 5%

Ever since I knew her she wore a string of large blue beads around her neck,beads that were precious because my uncle had given them to her when she was a younger woman.

by Occurrences 3%

I began to suspect it was diamonds for me, but knew I never could wear them, and was dreadfully afraid that I was going to be tempted, when slowly, bead by bead, came out this amber necklace.

into Occurrences 2%

The ripe fruit is crimson, and strings like beads into favorite necklaces.

at Occurrences 2%

"The Jesuit missionary," says Stephen, "with his breviary under his arm, his beads at his girdle, and his crucifix in his hands, went forth without fear, to encounter the most dreaded dangers.

between Occurrences 2%

Amsterdam, all the cities of the Zuyder Zee, and all the islandsfragments of vanished landswhich are strung like beads between Friesland and North Holland, are protected by dikes.

near Occurrences 1%

He added that Rám Harak had found him telling his beads near a temple, and persuaded him to wait close at hand until he had opened Debendra Babu's eyes.

like Occurrences 1%

When shall we see your amazing pot which will be as beautiful as everything which is beautiful, blooming like the rose, beaded like the raspberry, and speakingif we must believe what you say about itlike our lips?"

through Occurrences 1%

All day that string of human beads waits there, jerks forward, waits again; all day and every day, constantly replenished, constantly dropping the end beads through the wicket, till the units mount to hundreds and the hundreds to thousands....

against Occurrences 1%

[Fr.]; knock, one's bead against a wall &c (be unskillful) 699; rush on destruction; kick against the pricks, tempt Providence, go on a forlorn hope, go on a fool's errand.

across Occurrences 1%

She leaned over and drew the coral beads across the surface, enjoying the glitter thus caused, when suddenly a great hand from beneath seized the necklace and snatched it down.

within Occurrences 1%

A stern Franciscan friar, who had been telling his beads within a few paces of them, heard the cry and was beside them in an instant.

Which preposition to use with  beaded