Which preposition to use with chopping

in Occurrences 23%

Then fry 1 onion and 2 cloves of garlic chopped in olive-oil.

of Occurrences 21%

GENERALLY SPEAKING, small dishes only are prepared by this mode of cooking; amongst these, the beef-steak and mutton chop of the solitary English diner may be mentioned as celebrated all the world over.

with Occurrences 20%

Season veal chops with salt and pepper and let fry a few minutes in hot dripping.

at Occurrences 17%

Before beginning to chop at the tree they knelt and prayed that the white Ma's God would prove stronger than the juju.

for Occurrences 14%

per dayperhaps a shade lesswas what our hotel expenses amounted to; includingcoffee and milk, bread and butter, eggs or kidneys or chops for the first breakfast; table d'hôte luncheon and table d'hôte dinner, with a good bedroom not higher than 2nd floor.

into Occurrences 12%

" He even found a way to climb on to the berg itself, though in most places the field ice was chopped into small bits by some action on the part of the vast bulk, perhaps during a high wind and a heavy sea.

to Occurrences 12%

Remove the bones from a large cooked fish and chop to a fine mince.

from Occurrences 8%

Cut the chops from a well-hung tender loin of mutton, remove a portion of the fat, and trim them into a nice shape; slightly beat and level them; place the gridiron over a bright clear fire, rub the bars with a little fat, and lay on the chops.

on Occurrences 5%

Have ready a bright clear fire; lay the chops on a gridiron, and broil them of a nice pale brown, turning them when required.

of Occurrences 4%

Many strained blows must be delivered before he could effect the chopping of even a little notch.

through Occurrences 4%

The latter shoutedin Frenchthe order for the chop through the speaking-tube to the man Emilio, and then returning to his customer he spread out a napkin and placed a small cruet, with knife, fork, and bread before him.

off Occurrences 4%

While at play for this extraordinary stake, they have a fire by them, on which a small pot of walnut oil, or oil of sesamum, is kept boiling; and when one has won a game, he chops off the end of the loser's finger, who immediately dips the stump into the boiling oil, to stem the blood; and some will persist so obstinately, as to have all their fingers thus mutilated.

like Occurrences 2%

Rub the nutter very lightly into the flour, or chop like suet and mix in.

until Occurrences 2%

Chop until very smooth and form into cakes containing a generous tablespoonful each.

to Occurrences 1%

Judge Markham, who was giving some last directions joined these men, and listened while Uncle Jonah, in a few words, explained Bart's theorythat the girl would turn back from the chopping to the old road, and if there confused, would be likely to go into the woods, and directly away from her home.

amid Occurrences 1%

Possibly he took up the far, faint tune that came from the straggling gang of negroes away off in the field, as they slowly chopped amid the threadlike rows of cotton plants which lined the level ground, for the melody he hummed softly and then sang strongly, in the quavering, catchy tones of a good old country churchman, was "I'm glad salvation's free.

around Occurrences 1%

Mash through a colander and heap lightly on a platter, arranging broiled chops around the puree.

as Occurrences 1%

the chops as in the preceding.

by Occurrences 1%

The woodman chops by controlling and breaking the force which he the next moment yields to.

over Occurrences 1%

TAFFY had been here, and made good his coming, although the good was entirely on TAFFY'S side, for he walked off again with a piece of beef, and was, even at this very moment, smacking his chops over its tender fibres.

within Occurrences 1%

If one knew Japanese, one could collogue with that gentleman in the straw-hat and the blue loincloth who is chopping within a sixteenth of an inch of his naked toes with the father and mother of all weed-spuds.

without Occurrences 1%

Its food lay untasted on the floor; it much preferred, no doubt, and from no fault of its own, poor thing, a nice, plump, squalling baboon to the finest of chops without the fun!

in Occurrences 1%

R. [Footnote 1: Like the chopping in two of the Respublica in the quotation just above of the well-known Roman formula by which consuls were to see ne quid Respublica detrimenti capiat, this is a jest on the ignorance of the political wiseacres.

about Occurrences 1%

As the weather proved fair for some time, they steered to the eastwards, in hopes of getting as they thought to Iceland; but the wind again chopping about, drove them about at its will, and they were quite ignorant whereabouts they were.

Which preposition to use with  chopping