Which preposition to use with compasses

of Occurrences 264%

Ah, it is a touching thing, to see some great philanthropist come forward, at the call of Duty and his Publisher (perhaps also quickened by the hollow sound emitted by his treasure-box), and compress himself into the absurdly small compass of a few pages 18mo., in order to afford himself the exalted pleasure of holding simple and godly converse with children at large!

in Occurrences 49%

In the silent gloom that was almost night Pierre carried his compass in his hand, and at last, late in the afternoon, they came to a break in the timber-line, and ahead of them lay a plain, across which Radisson pointed an exultant hand.

With Occurrences 19%

You see I am here, but if you would know how, I cannot 'scape, and tell the manner too, By this I know your house is compassed With hell-hound search.

about Occurrences 19%

There was a volume and compass about it which can never be reached in a concert room.

by Occurrences 13%

"Not if I'm seaman enough to read the compass by what's visible of the sun," returned Midshipman Darrin.

on Occurrences 11%

So the scientific mariner, when he installs a compass on board his ship, measures these several forces, their influence upon the needle, and installs others to correct themon the principle of like cures like.

for Occurrences 11%

It has been said in France that King Haakon abandons tiller and compass for crown and scepter without one hour's training in politics or diplomacy.

than Occurrences 11%

"Now the Plots of their Plays being narrow, and the persons few: one of their Acts was written in a less compass than one of our well-wrought Scenes; and yet they are often deficient even in this.

from Occurrences 10%

Looking very carefully along the still extended skirt of his coat towards exactly the point of the compass from which the voice seemed to come, Mr. BUMSTEAD at last awoke to the conviction that the tension of his garment and its breezy agitation were caused by the tugging of a human figure.

to Occurrences 10%

But see, O see, the weary sun for rest Hath lain his golden compass to the west, Where he perpetual bide and ever shine, As David's offspring in his happy clime.

as Occurrences 6%

XLV.In seizing the posts, each exerted his utmost power: Caesar, to confine Pompey within as narrow a compass as possible; Pompey, to occupy as many hills as he could in as large a circuit as possible, and several skirmishes were fought in consequence of it.

at Occurrences 5%

[2024] Erasmus, an illiterate and a barbarous study, (for though they be never so well learned in it, I can hardly vouchsafe them the name of scholars, except they be otherwise qualified) and so few courts are left to that profession, such slender offices, and those commonly to be compassed at such dear rates, that I know not how an ingenious man should thrive amongst them.

before Occurrences 4%

Now we, of curiosity; though a million times had it been done in the past ages, set the compass before us, having it from the Great Museum.

uv Occurrences 2%

Mitt'ns is jest abeout 'ithin the compass uv your mind,mitt'ns, men's single mitt'ns, put up on needles larger 'n them o' yourn be, an' by this rule.

into Occurrences 2%

Kennedy and I exchanged glances, and he shoved the compass into my hand quickly.

in Occurrences 2%

Let the Reader only peruse the Description of Minerva's Ægis, or Buckler, in the Fifth Book, with her Spear, which would overturn whole Squadrons, and her Helmet, that was sufficient to cover an Army drawn out of an hundred Cities: The Golden Compasses in the above-mentioned Passage appear a very natural Instrument in the Hand of him, whom Plato somewhere calls the Divine Geometrician.

without Occurrences 1%

This spectacle, for example, of a millionaire hurled across a continent in a special train to be present at the bedside of a stricken dear one, may be interpreted as the endeavor of an incarnate soul to achieve, with the aid of human ingenuity applied to space annihilation, that which, discarnate, it could compass without delay or effort.

out Occurrences 1%

Had he some interest in putting the second compass out of service also?

over Occurrences 1%

He and Macdonald were busy with pencil and compasses over a chart.

therewith Occurrences 1%

I pray thee of thy courtesy to add thereto so much landI seek no moreas I may cover with a hide, and as may be compassed therewith.

through Occurrences 1%

The Commissioner had to work by compass through the pathless forest.

under Occurrences 1%

Why, it is all he steers by; without it, he would be as helpless as a compass under the flare of Northern Lights; and he no doubt regards it as a mark of blood, the proof of his kinship with the preadamite family of the Saurians.

around Occurrences 1%

Scrubby forelands set with cedars, shadow-flecked paths under the scrub oak, meadows where water glimmered, white sails off Center Island and Cooper's BluffCooper's Bluff from the north, northeast, east, southeast, souththis they painted with never-tiring, Pecksniffian patience, boxing the compass around it as enthusiastically as that immortal architect circumnavigated Salisbury Cathedral.

beyond Occurrences 1%

The novice then took every precaution to keep the other compass beyond the reach of every accident.

Which preposition to use with  compasses