Which preposition to use with combs

of Occurrences 24%

" Above the black-bombazine basque, so pleasantly relieved at the throat by a V of fresh white net, a wave of color moved up Mrs. Kaufman's face into her architectural coiffure, the very black and very coarse skein of her hair wound into a large loose mound directly atop her head and pierced there with a ball-topped comb of another decade.

in Occurrences 17%

Out in the broad, swampy delta of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, the little wanderers have been known to build their combs in a bunch of rushes, or stiff, wiry grass, only slightly protected from the weather, and in danger every spring of being carried away by floods.

with Occurrences 14%

It was a theatre, honey-combed with gambling-dens.

for Occurrences 6%

After this battle, which occurred in 872, when he had been declared King of United Norway, he attended a feast, and the Earl of More cut his hair, which had not been cut or combed for ten years, and gave him the name of Fairhaired.

at Occurrences 4%

While we were making ourselves comfortable and agreeable, we made the novel and rather funny discovery of a hen sitting on her nest just under the bench, with her red comb at our fingers' ends.

over Occurrences 4%

Dexterously he swept the curry-comb over the shining coats and then drew it through the brush in his left hand with a curious vocal accompaniment, something between a long-drawn whistle and a sigh, and the horses laid their heads against his shoulder affectionately and looked wonderingly at the stranger out of their large, bright eyes.

into Occurrences 4%

It had set out to be formal, but, like most efforts at taming the fierce fecundity of nature in these seas, had become a tangle of verdure, for though now and then combed into some regularity, the breezes, the dogs, the chickens, and the invading people ruffled it, the falling leaves covered the grass, and the dead branches sighed for burial.

as Occurrences 3%

At the most, she might take pins at the doorfor at such a trifle we displayed our talentsor play upon the comb as orchestra before the rising of the curtain.

by Occurrences 3%

Indeed, when the king's prime minister began to make investigation, he found the place so honey-combed by Christianity that he had to cease his inquisition, for fear of implicating chiefs, and upsetting society generally.

from Occurrences 3%

Bacon in his "Natural History" alludes to another curious idea connected with goats, and says, "There are some tears of trees, which are combed from the beards of goats; for when the goats bite and crop them, especially in the morning, the dew being on, the tear cometh forth, and hangeth upon their beards; of this sort is some kind of laudanum."

on Occurrences 3%

But about four o'clock the weather lightened, and from the cock's-comb on which we moved we looked down into the lower glens.

out Occurrences 3%

At such leisurely times he was indeed so exacting as to his own proper appearance that he would not budge until the last "witch's stirrup" had been combed out of his mane and tail.

through Occurrences 3%

Joao Gomez, my faithful "boy," did not object to the odour, and when he had been tempted to pass my comb through his raven locks as he was dusting my dressing table, I always knew it.

to Occurrences 2%

He lived principally upon honey; and when he needed bread or meat, he carried some fine combs to a village not far away and bartered them for other food.

above Occurrences 1%

Then, as I loosed the plaits of my shining tresses, Parting with nard-moist comb above my forehead The veil of hairin the glass my own glance met me.

after Occurrences 1%

In every old picture or painting, representing a group or company of persons, it will be observed that all the individuals are dressed and combed after the same fashion.

along Occurrences 1%

Under those vast resounding vaults swarmed a brood of mediaeval bravilike the wasps that hang their pear-shaped combs along the cloisters of Pavia.

behind Occurrences 1%

There we inquired of the first person who seemed likely to knowhe was a dapper hairdresser, standing at his shop-door with his hands in his apron pockets and a comb behind his earand were told that the wedding-party had just passed through the village, on their way to the Chateau of Saint Aulaire.

like Occurrences 1%

The men are generally naked; but the women make a kind of petticoat of bulrushes, which they comb like hemp, and throw the skin of a deer over their shoulders.

before Occurrences 1%

and he held the tempting comb before him.

Which preposition to use with  combs