Which preposition to use with carcass

of Occurrences 152%

We helped him to load the carcass of the deer on the back of his donkey, and saw him move off lazily towards home.

in Occurrences 12%

While the two white men shouldered their way along, a strange chorus broke out, as though from among the crowded carcasses in a butcher's stall.

for Occurrences 7%

Great masses of blubber were stripped from the sides to be used later both for food and fuel, the whalebone was carefully secured to be sold to the traders, and it seemed to Ted that there was not one thing in that vast carcass for which the Indians did not have some use.

from Occurrences 7%

When I recovered my senses Ergimo was kneeling beside me pouring down my throat the contents of a small phial; and as I lifted my head and looked around, I saw the enormous carcass from under which I had been dragged lying dead almost within reach of my hand.

to Occurrences 6%

These larger animals were too heavy to be transported whole to the huts; end therefore the hunters always skinned them and cut off the flesh where they fell, and left the carcasses to the wolves and the birds of prey that were ever ready at hand.

into Occurrences 6%

Then we stripped the mask with its bristle of long whiskers, took the gall, and dragged the carcass into the surf where it was devoured by fish.

on Occurrences 5%

They had killed twenty-two moose within two months, but, as they could use but very little of the meat, they left the carcasses on the ground.

with Occurrences 4%

During the process of roasting the cooks basted the carcasses with a preparation furnished from the great house, consisting of butter, pepper, salt and vinegar, and this was continued until the meat was ready to serve.

after Occurrences 2%

I would kill one, skin it and drag the carcass after me all day as I set traps, cutting off bits for bait, and cooking the rest for ourselves to eat.

out Occurrences 2%

It was reported that the audacious and savage Apache chieftain, Manga Colorada, or Red Sleeve, under pretence of wanting to make a treaty with the Americans, had approached within sixty miles of Santa to the west, and camped there, on the route to the San Juan country, not making treaties at all, but simply making hot beefsteaks out of Mexican cattle and cold carcasses out of Mexican rancheros.

than Occurrences 2%

And there he lay, with more the appearance of a rotten carcass than a living man, for four days before he could do more than move.

under Occurrences 2%

If he had gone as far as he ought to you wouldn't be laying therethey'd just about now be hiding your dirty carcass under six feet of 'dobe!'" Sabota mumbled some guttural, unintelligible reply.

at Occurrences 1%

They will smell a dead carcass at a very great distance, and will soon surround and devour it.

without Occurrences 1%

She was only a carcass without value, of which the surf was going to disperse the débris in a few hours.

along Occurrences 1%

[Footnote 5: The hook was to drag his carcass along the streets to throw it into the Tiber.

as Occurrences 1%

Men will hunt all curious, beautiful, grand objects, as they hunt the cattle in South America, for their skins, and leave the carcasses as of little worth.

toward Occurrences 1%

Then he swung himself partly sidewise and began dragging the carcass toward the timber as a dog might have dragged a ten-pound slab of bacon.

like Occurrences 1%

455 The meagre beast lay still as death; And Peter's lips with fury quiver; Quoth he, "You little mulish dog, I'll fling your carcass like a log Head-foremost down the river!" 460 An impious oath confirmed the threat Whereat from the earth on which he lay To all the echoes, south and north, And east and west, the Ass sent forth A long and clamorous bray!

by Occurrences 1%

Such another I find in Martin Wenrichius, com. de ortu monstrorum, c. 17, I saw (saith he) at Wittenberg, in Germany, a citizen that looked like a carcass; I asked him the cause, he replied, "His mother, when she bore him in her womb, saw a carcass by chance, and was so sore affrighted with it, that ex eo foetus ei assimilatus, from a ghastly impression the child was like it.

off Occurrences 1%

I measured the tail of the dead rat, and found it to be two yards long, wanting an inch; but it went against my stomach to drag the carcass off the bed, where it lay still bleeding; I observed it had yet some life, but with a strong slash across the neck I thoroughly despatched it.[20]

Which preposition to use with  carcass