Which preposition to use with butting
But he did sleep through it all, and was wakened only by a punch in the ribs with the butt of my rifle, instigated by pity for the poor donkey that was being eaten up by the flies.
Hence a butt for all.
He threw the cigarette butt into the sea and turned back.
And how it butts with its nose!
I dodged the fall of the knife, and struck hard with my pistol butt at the uplifted arm.
And by means of some native method of telegraphing, such as by means of wigwag flags, or "smokes," the news could be hurried up the river much in advance of the vessel that was butting against the strong current of the swollen Magdalena.
"If you hadn't butted in" "Cut it out!" said the trooper.
Eastward it butts on orchard closes and the village gardens, brimming over into them by wild brier and creeping grass.
Butt to that stuff of stuffs, that without scoff Is Camills haire or else stand further off.
Shush-h-h!" Uncle Jake slid off the verandah, but he retiredso we discovered laterno farther than the water-butt behind it.
There was the bull, mischievous beast, would take to butting at the lichen stacks; and as for the goats, they were high and low and everywhere, even to the roof of the hut.
But Brown only slid along the seat away from him, saying: "Don't bother me, Jim; this is too momentous a crisis in my life to have a well-intentioned but intellectually dwarfed friend butting into me and running about under foot.
That single movement of a female arm, the muscular development of which a pugilist might have envied, shed more blood than all the clawing, tugging, and butting of the male combatants had caused to flow.
Mivins, the steward, was, as we have already remarked, a tall, thin, active young man, of a brisk, lively disposition, and was somewhat of a butt among the men, but being in a position of power and trust, he was respected.
Anne picked him up and he flattened himself against her breast, butting under her chin with his smooth round head in his loving way.
So do I ofttimes keep him shooting at the butts by the hour together and therein do make me some small amend.
In fact, he was sleepy, and had already had two or three narrow escapes from butting over the candles; finally he fell from his chair, crushing Caddy's newly-trimmed bonnet, to the intense grief and indignation of that young lady, who inflicted summary vengeance upon him before he was sufficiently awake to be aware of what had happened.
They killed more from the butt than from the muzzle.
On that memorable day, Flitting like a restless ghost Somewhere off the Danish coast, His destroyer, all agog, Butted through the clinging fog, When for just a space the gray Mists of morning rolled away.
Calder dropped his weapon with the butt towards Whistling Dan.
and then I heard a noise in the water-butt under the spout, the snapping of an old rafter, or something falling behind the wall.
He was commending the army for minding its own businessnot "butting in" and trying to ruin business the way some other departments of the Government did.
Fresh fish!' until our boys are crazy to lay a lance butt across their ragged blouses.