Which preposition to use with clipped

from Occurrences 16%

When this boy took a seat, a young girl read some verses that she had clipped from a newspaper: "Don't kill the toads, the ugly toads, That hop around your door; Each meal the little toad doth eat A hundred bugs or more.

of Occurrences 14%

Thus it was, that an estate, lying within five-and-twenty miles of the city of New York, and in which we happen to have a small interest at this hour, was clipped of its fair proportions, in consequence of losing some miles that run over obtrusively into another colony; and, within a short distance of the spot where we are writing, a "patent" has been squeezed entirely out of existence, between the claims of two older grants.

in Occurrences 9%

But that he'd be finished clipping in the course of the day, and that to-morrow morning at eight o'clock the pheayton would be ready.

on Occurrences 5%

"I should say nix," he observed; "especially when you know that one little clip on either wing would upset us like a stone.

at Occurrences 5%

Upon receiving this thrust, the mighty crab ceased at once its pursuit, and clipped at the haft of the spear with its great mandible, snapping the weapon more easily than I had done the same thing to a straw.

with Occurrences 4%

It stood on a knoll, as do most gulch cabins, in order that occasional freshets might pass below, and the knoll looked as though it had been clipped with a pair of scissors.

to Occurrences 3%

All might have gone well even yet, only that, by ins and outs and crookedness of laws, I was shorn like a sheep that is clipped to the quick.

off Occurrences 2%

" "Aw!" "Ain't you ashamed, a big boy like you, and Mrs. Suss with her neuralgia?" "Aw!"the slam of a door clipping off this insolence.

along Occurrences 2%

I recall that we traveled at a cup-racing clip along a road that first wound like a coiling snake and then straightened like a striking snake, and that always we traveled through dust so thick it made a fog.

into Occurrences 2%

His beard went all round under his chin, and was clipped into the appearance of a stiff thick hedgeequally thick, and equally broad, and equally protrusive at all parts.

past Occurrences 2%

On solid footing he would have dodged successfully; as it was the noose barely clipped past his ear.

through Occurrences 2%

He took us, therefore, at a buzzing clip through the Bois, along one flank of the magnificent Forest of Soigne, with its miles of green- trunked beech trees, and by way of the royal park of Tervueren.

out Occurrences 1%

The huge mountains raised their jagged heads through the snow, and were so sharp-edged that they might have been clipped out of cardboard.

over Occurrences 1%

In selecting a half-leaf of a spring, choose one the width of the springs to the machine, and carry along three or four small spring clips, for it is quite likely a spring may be broken in the course of a long run, and, if so, the half-leaf can be clipped over the break, making the broken spring as serviceable and strong for the time being as if sound.

vs Occurrences 1%

[Footnote A: Here in the Quarto: This heauy headed reueale east and west Makes vs tradust, and taxed of other nations, They clip vs drunkards, and with Swinish phrase Soyle our addition, and indeede it takes From our atchieuements, though perform'd at height The pith and marrow of our attribute, So oft it chaunces in particuler men,

pefore Occurrences 1%

Unless my topesheet goes pack on me, for deh first dime in forty years dere vill pe a record clip pefore a veek from to-tay.

by Occurrences 1%

A few were honored with a clip by the artist hand of the petit caporal of our Engineer Company.

for Occurrences 1%

Dick's own hair, not having been clipped for many months, appeared scarcely less wild, as they thundered down the rocky pass at what appeared a break-neck gallop.

across Occurrences 1%

One fellow went down, but at the same moment I got a clip across my wrist with a knife, and down went the pistol.

like Occurrences 1%

And Sally slashed a seam open with shears that clipped like her speech.

Which preposition to use with  clipped