Which preposition to use with breast

of Occurrences 795%

Going very rarely, and always in the most decorous manner, to the places where I happened to be, he used to observe me, but ever with a cautious eye, so that it seemed as if he had planned as well as I to hide the tender flames that glowed in the breasts of both.

with Occurrences 143%

They were rudely but cleverly carved, with eyes outlined in ink, and supplied under the breast with a neat inward-cut shank.

in Occurrences 65%

Acton folded Diggory to his breast in a loving embrace, Shaw and Morris stuffed the door-key down Mugford's back, while the remainder of the company executed a war-dance round Jack Vance.

to Occurrences 60%

To and fro the wrestlers swayed, knee to knee and breast to breast, fierce and silent and grim.

at Occurrences 21%

Wounded in the breast at the first onset, he still led the charge.

against Occurrences 20%

The international entente already establishing itself among the manual workers of all the European countriesand which has now become an accepted principle of the Labour movementis a guarantee and a promise of a more peaceful era; and those who know the artisans and peasants of this and other countries know well how little enmity they harbour in their breasts against each other.

for Occurrences 20%

I saw her lie, and stayed this chariot; And raiment wrapt on her dead limbs, and beat My breast for her.

like Occurrences 19%

Nearly all of his music is sweet and tender, lapsing from his round breast like water over the smooth lip of a pool, then breaking farther on into a sparkling foam of melodious notes, which, glow with subdued enthusiasm, yet without expressing much of the strong, gushing ecstasy of the bobolink or skylark.

as Occurrences 13%

The spell wrought by the joy of his presence still held her reason, her memory, in thrall; one thought, one fact, dominated all others: the fact that he was here, that she was in his arms, with her head on his breast as of old.

from Occurrences 9%

She knows, Mrs. Pinshriber, how my husband likes breast from the chicken.

by Occurrences 7%

What ample power thy salt-rights give thee (which both thy mouth and lips can claim), Over a breast by sorrow wounded, and a heart burnt within its flame!

on Occurrences 7%

I am rending the air and beating my breast on account of your obstinate preference for being always in the right.

than Occurrences 6%

DEAR SIR, Though in all my summer's excursion I have given you no account of myself, I hope you think better of me than to imagine it possible for me to forget you, whose kindness to me has been too great and too constant not to have made its impression on a harder breast than mine.

into Occurrences 5%

"Then Taillefer put his horse to a gallop, charging before all the rest, and struck an Englishman dead, driving his lance below the breast into his body, and stretching him upon the ground.

over Occurrences 4%

Everything else is larded in a similar way; and, in the case of poultry, hold the breast over a charcoal fire for one minute, or dip it into boiling water, in order to make the flesh firm.

before Occurrences 3%

He had been seen to beat his breast before the doors of Ham; his foster sister, Madame Hortense Cornu, wrote to Mieroslawsky, "I am a good Republican, and I can answer for him."

unto Occurrences 3%

With passioned and thrilling embracement, With straining of breast unto breast, With sighing and trembling and transport In lust's unrestrained, giddy zest So revelled 'mid desolate ruins, Of Lovers,past counting at least!

under Occurrences 3%

" Fainter and fainter the words fell, and slower and slower heaved the youthful breast under her heavily pressing palm.

after Occurrences 2%

; swelling of the breasts after birth, 195. ; discharge from the eyes, 196. ; hare-lip, 199. ; bleeding from the navel string, 201. ; ulceration, or imperfect healing of the navel, 202.

through Occurrences 2%

They make the milk and pour it out of the breasts through little canals into the mouth of the suckling.

beneath Occurrences 2%

Yet beneath their uncouth and bedraggled garments they moved like mothers of a mighty race, tall, large-limbed, broad of hip, hiding generous breasts beneath the shawlsred, grey, and blackthat covered their babes from the wind and rain.

among Occurrences 2%

As for the pig, Isak had carried it in his arms all the way, feeding it with milk from a bottle, and sleeping with it on his breast among the hills.

without Occurrences 1%

The seven Representatives saw the bayonets at their breasts without a word, without a gesture, without one step backwards.

amid Occurrences 1%

One of his attendants had carried the tidings; wild Keltic men and women had come down for one last sight of their Fearnagh MacFearccadorigh, as they called him by his true Gaulish namepassionately kissing his hands and the hem of his mantle, beating their breasts amid howls of lamentation, and throwing themselves in his path, as, with the high spirit which could not brook to be fetched as a criminal, he made his way to the gate.

between Occurrences 1%

I told her my compassion was increased, because I apprehended there was a struggle in her own breast between duty and interest; and I appealed to her whether she did not know it was a duty to let them go, though personal interest would induce her to keep them in her service.

Which preposition to use with  breast