Which preposition to use with brains
Has the brains of the family.
Clean and boil the brains in salted water; add 1 onion sliced; let cook ten minutes.
" The precious moments sped away, but in vain did the assembly rack their brains for some plan of action which might in any way be likely to serve the purpose they had in view.
Clean and stew the brains with 1/2 cup of vinegar, 1 sliced onion, salt and pepper.
Remove the brains to a platter; add a lump of butter and a tablespoonful of molasses to the sauce; boil up and pour over the brains.
Her blood was singing in her veins, and the old, old question was flying back and forth through her brain like a shuttle through a loom: Which shall it be?
From what I learn there's a bigger brain than an Indian's behind it.
I was still conscious, with as active a brain as whilst writing this.
But the point is, Rolfe, that you and I have to put all our brains into this and help one another.
There is more copper in the brain by a considerable degree than in any other organ of the body.
The immediate or proximate cause of giddiness, or vertigo, that is, the actual condition of the brain at the moment, is probably some partial disturbance in the circulation there; which all the occasional causes mentioned are obviously calculated to produce.
I am wasting my time and brains on ribaldry, but I am worth nothing betterat least, I think so at times; but you, who can do anything you put your hand to, what business have you, in the devil's name, to be throwing yourself away on gimcracks and fox- hunting foolery? Heavens!
Detach the brains from the heads without breaking them, and put them into a pan of warm water; remove the skin, and let them remain for two hours.
Ah! with what awe, what infantile impatience, We eyed the artifice when issued out, And racked our brains about the Regulations, And tried to think we had them free from doubt!
" The Triple Alliance had for some hours ceased to puzzle their brains over either Virgil or cipher notes, and the whole of Ronleigh College was apparently wrapped in slumber, when three shadowy figures assembled on the landing at the top of staircase B, and proceeded noiselessly along the corridor, and down the side passage at the end of which Mr. Grice's room was situated.
" Women must pool their brains against their own shortcomings, and in favor of their own ability to back up their country now and here.
The cranial or cerebral nerves consist of twelve pairs of nerves which pass from the brain through different openings in the base of the skull, and are distributed over the head and face, also to some parts of the trunk and certain internal organs.
As to the how or the wherefore they might rack their brains without guessing.
I grant I dash'd the brains out of a brat Thine if he were, I care not: had he been The first-born comfort of a royal king, And should have yall'd, when Doncaster cried peace, I would have done by him as then I did.
Most likely my own face was firm enough, but, if it were, 'twas a poor clue to the brain behind it.
Again, the ordinary supply of blood to a part may be lessened, so that the organ is reduced to a state of inactivity, as occurs in the case of the brain during sleep.
When I felt his very life, so to speak, palpitate in his brain beneath my fingers, and leaned over toward the wall, my feet gently slid from the stirrups, and, with one vigorous blow, I buried the pointed blade of my knife in the seat of the vital principle.
The written and the spoken word start forces none may measure, set working brain after brain, influence numbers unknown to the forthgiver of the word, work for good or for evil all down the stream of time.
There were brains under her bright hair.
The campaign now became a contest of brains between Lee and the Federal authorities.