Which preposition to use with bits

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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 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 11%

"Nought to matter, lad, save that it is my sword-arm: nay indeed, my Beltane, 'twas but an axe bit through my vanbrace, 'twill heal within the week.

before Occurrences 10%

Oh, mamma, he's comical; wait a bit before driving him out.

ob Occurrences 9%

"While I was a-turnin' ober in my min' de subjec' ob dis sarmon, dere come ter me a bit ob Scripter wot I heerd at a big preachin' an' baptizin' at Kyarter's Mills, 'bout ten year' ago.

over Occurrences 8%

Anybody's allowed to step a bit over the mark on birthdays, and you might take a glass or two and make a speech, and be so happy and bright that they'd 'ardly know you.

of Occurrences 8%

Jog Trot The Joyless American Spiritual Teething Glass Houses The Old-Clothes Monger in Journalism The Country Landlord's Side The Good Staff of Pleasure Wanteda Home Bits of Talk.

as Occurrences 7%

This marshmallow man was every bit as small-minded as the mortal men.

above Occurrences 7%

"The price he asked is no doubt a bit above its proper value; but it's accommodation land, and it would be disappointing if it slipped through our fingers.

behind Occurrences 4%

A shell had hit it a glancing blow, so that the little china figure of the Blessed Virgin lay in bits behind the small barred opening of the shrine.

after Occurrences 4%

It 'ud be a bit after nine o'clock when your friend came in.

ov Occurrences 4%

He showed us a little thing which he had done "for a bit ov a prank."

Which preposition to use with  bits