Which preposition to use with bit

of Occurrences 5362%

" This said, she twists the thread around his ugly spindle once, 4 Snaps off the last bit of the life of that Imperial dunce.

of Occurrences 227%

The bite of the sharp fang, when it first entered, seemed to burn me.

in Occurrences 144%

Choose your tune!" He fumbled a bit in the rack and passing some rather good music, he held up a torn and yellow sheet.

by Occurrences 144%

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.

like Occurrences 102%

"Rub Sultan down a bit like a good fellow.

for Occurrences 74%

"I'll tell you what: I'll give you boys six bits apiece for the whisker hairs, and four bits for the galls.

at Occurrences 61%

It never bites at a hook, and is taken only by gill-nets, or the seine.

about Occurrences 54%

Don't you fret a bit about it.

at Occurrences 52%

The girl checked her steps a bit at a new sound in his voice.

into Occurrences 46%

As I looked round our little company, I noted how deep the thing had bitten into our souls.

from Occurrences 42%

So I told the company that I would trim the hat by slicing a bit from the other side.

to Occurrences 39%

Each whisker is worth from six bits to a dollar and a quarter.

in Occurrences 37%

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.

on Occurrences 37%

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!

with Occurrences 37%

Bathing the part bitten with warm turpentine or warm vinegar is also of great use.

out Occurrences 33%

It all seemed like a grim bit out of a play.

into Occurrences 32%

Where they closed they tore the clothes and bit into his very flesh.

with Occurrences 31%

" "Oh, she's flirted a bit with him.

off Occurrences 28%

With small white teeth Miss Kaufman bit off an end of thread.

on Occurrences 27%

To-day the bass will bite on dobsons, but to-morrow we must have frogs.

out Occurrences 20%

De sarpint he done fotch mudder Ebe seben apples, an' ebery one she take a bite out of gib her a debbil.

off Occurrences 18%

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.

between Occurrences 18%

Our critical Incubus has taken the bit between her teeth, and is beginning to run away with us.

through Occurrences 17%

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.

for Occurrences 16%

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.

Which preposition to use with  bit