Which preposition to use with cap

of Occurrences 302%

My attack will be too intimate; for I have confessed that I am not the very button on the cap of bravery.

with Occurrences 153%

how many applicants there were always for the most insignificant placesa Frenchman loves a cap with gold braid and gilt buttons on his coat.

on Occurrences 149%

'It is more than I know,' I replied, as I placed a fresh cap on my rifle.

in Occurrences 145%

Could the apprentices have known in what a borrowed majesty he walked, would they not have tossed their caps in mirth and pointed their dusky fingers at him?

to Occurrences 53%

" As soon as the launch lay alongside, the young midshipmen clambered nimbly up the side gangway, each raising his cap to the flag at the stern as he passed through the opening in the rail.

at Occurrences 49%

I threw my huntin' cap at him, but he pitched into it, and if he didn't trample it into the ground, as if it was a human, you may shoot me.

for Occurrences 46%

"Linnet is almost growing up," she had said to herself as she removed her cap for her customary afternoon nap.

over Occurrences 45%

"It is, doubtless, a very spectacular and very stirring performance to cast your cap over the wind-mill in the face of the world; but, after all, is it not a bit foolish, Patricia?

from Occurrences 34%

"Yesyesyes!" cried Johnnie, reaching up swift, nervous fingers to unfasten the cap from her hair, thrusting it in the pocket of the apron, and untying the apron strings.

off Occurrences 14%

When the children went out next day he followed them, watching and waiting for a chance to recover anything that belonged to him; and at last, seeing the little boy who wore his cap off his guard, he made a sudden rush, and snatching it off the young savage's head, put it firmly upon his own.

as Occurrences 11%

No, the Duke I will give her shall be one without passions to gratify or injuries to avenge, and shall already be crowned with a crown to make the ducal cap as nothing in his eyes, if eyes he had.

into Occurrences 10%

And hence it may not be hazardous to conclude that very ordinary metamorphic agencies may convert these polar caps into a form of quartzite.

like Occurrences 8%

we're saved," a lieutenant cries, waving his cap like a madman.

above Occurrences 6%

Just then he saw WESTCOTT'S huntin' cap above the rocks on the point, and saw his double-barrel poked out in the direction of the leader of the pack, and he knew that that old grey-back's time had come.

without Occurrences 5%

She settled Aunt Amy upon the couch and adjusted the lavender cap without further betrayal of her own feelings, but in her heart she was both angry and hurt.

under Occurrences 4%

He tucked his cap under his arm, bowed profoundly in honor of the colonel's compliments, and brought one of the stools to a place where it was no nearer the rather ominous circle of the lamplight than was the invalid himself.

out Occurrences 4%

There runs a mouse; whoever catches her may make a great, great cap out of her fur.

between Occurrences 2%

He sat twirling his cap between his knees, and his shrewd eye travelled round the kitchen, coming back finally to Bessie, who was washing and drying diligently.

against Occurrences 2%

The Boy stamped the snow off his mucklucks on the threshold, and dashed his cap against the lintel, calling out: "Come in! come in!

near Occurrences 2%

Two of the largest specimens I have measured are in Yosemite Valley, one of which is more than eight feet in diameter, and is growing upon the terminal moraine of the residual glacier that occupied the South Fork Canon; the other is nearly as large, growing upon angular blocks of granite that have been shaken from the precipitous front of the Liberty Cap near the Nevada Fall.

inside Occurrences 1%

Marcos caught sight of a white cap inside the carriage.

across Occurrences 1%

"Not many, out of those who happened to have devoted cavaliers beside them, certainly," admitted the other young man, looking after the rapid transit of the crimson cap across the snowy fields.

among Occurrences 1%

On leaving the hospital I visited the huts all along the street, confiscating sundry refractory baby caps among shrieks and outcries, partly of laughter and partly of real ignorant alarm for the consequence.

around Occurrences 1%

Eventually water had emerged from below ground and from the ice caps around the poles, and the air was gradually thickening.

before Occurrences 1%

Joe joined the many others who complied with this request, and holding his cap before him, he bent his head in prayer.

Which preposition to use with  cap