Which preposition to use with bit
" This said, she twists the thread around his ugly spindle once, 4 Snaps off the last bit of the life of that Imperial dunce.
The bite of the sharp fang, when it first entered, seemed to burn me.
Choose your tune!" He fumbled a bit in the rack and passing some rather good music, he held up a torn and yellow sheet.
Mac took a diagram and special directions, and went after the rest of elephas, conveying the few clumsy relics home, bit by bit, with a devotion worthy of a pious pilgrim.
"Rub Sultan down a bit like a good fellow.
"I'll tell you what: I'll give you boys six bits apiece for the whisker hairs, and four bits for the galls.
It never bites at a hook, and is taken only by gill-nets, or the seine.
Don't you fret a bit about it.
The girl checked her steps a bit at a new sound in his voice.
As I looked round our little company, I noted how deep the thing had bitten into our souls.
So I told the company that I would trim the hat by slicing a bit from the other side.
Each whisker is worth from six bits to a dollar and a quarter.
Miss Darling was head mistress of the Diocesan School at Amherst near Rangoon, and her pupils were bathing in the sea when one of them was bitten in the leg by a shark or alligator.
We had venison-steak, pork, ham, jerked venison stew, fresh trout, broiled partridge, cold roast duck, a fricassee of wood rabbits, and broiled pigeon upon our table, coming in courses, or piled up helter-skelter on great platters of birch bark, some on tin plates, and now and then a choice bit on a chip!
Bathing the part bitten with warm turpentine or warm vinegar is also of great use.
It all seemed like a grim bit out of a play.
Where they closed they tore the clothes and bit into his very flesh.
" "Oh, she's flirted a bit with him.
With small white teeth Miss Kaufman bit off an end of thread.
To-day the bass will bite on dobsons, but to-morrow we must have frogs.
De sarpint he done fotch mudder Ebe seben apples, an' ebery one she take a bite out of gib her a debbil.
He claimed to have chipped bits off the very outcrop of the California Rand, without finding it worth while to bring away, but none of these things put him out of countenance.
Our critical Incubus has taken the bit between her teeth, and is beginning to run away with us.
On this, Sakra, Ruler of Devas, changed himself and some devas into white mice, which bit through the strings about her waist; and when this was done, the extra clothes which she wore dropped down on the ground.
The boys afterwards learned that he had not tasted a bite for two days, and they wondered at his having shown even as much patience as he did.