Which preposition to use with corded

of Occurrences 184%

The house is beautiful for situation, and a threefold cord of love and faith cannot easily be broken.

to Occurrences 33%

Not satisfied with this act of cruelty, he caused holes to be bored through the heels of Boetis, the governor, and tying him with cords to the back of his chariot dragged him in this manner around the walls of the city.

with Occurrences 31%

He became anxious to open the valve, but having lost the use of his hands he could not, and ultimately he did so by seizing the cord with his teeth and dipping his head two or three times.

in Occurrences 25%

I found some cords in the tent, and tied his legs together.

from Occurrences 24%

The hands of the three youths were tied tightly behind their backs, and a cord from neck to neck fastened them all together.

about Occurrences 15%

Dan, with some of the emergency lashing about the buoy, succeeded, after a good deal of effort, and with some aid from Dave, in passing a cord about Hallam and under the latter's armpits that secured that midshipman to one of the buoys.

on Occurrences 12%

I have one ideaone cord on which to string all.

around Occurrences 12%

" He spoke as with authority, and the priest fingered the silken cord around his waist.

for Occurrences 10%

Rope and Cord for the traitor Bishop."

round Occurrences 9%

There was a little gold charm on a cord round his neck, now dyed with his blood.

by Occurrences 8%

It seemed like severing the silken cords by which she held her mate, to challenge her pumpkin pie.

as Occurrences 7%

The Spinal Cord as a Conductor of Impulses.

at Occurrences 5%

Now wouldn't little Willie Milton weep tears if he seen me a-doin' this to his property," and he bent down to sever the cord at one vicious blow.

into Occurrences 5%

The Queen, touched by pity, ordered her expiring lover to be drawn up by cords into her retreat, and bathed his temples with her tears.

across Occurrences 4%

We retain still the lanterns slung by cords across the streets which once were general in France, but which, in most places, have been superseded by the modern institution of gas.

over Occurrences 4%

Following the broad trail Wayeeses would find here a trapped animal, struggling desperately with the clog and the cruel gripping teeth, there the flayed carcass of a lynx or an otter, and yonder the leg of a dog or a piece of caribou meat hung by a cord over a runway, with the snow disturbed beneath it where the deadly trap was hidden.

off Occurrences 3%

" Rosemary retired obediently to the deep chair in the corner, and with the smile gone but the irony still hovering, she slipped the cord off the packet.

between Occurrences 3%

It was the unbroken cord between the twain That drew her ever to the ocean marge; Though to her feverous phantasy, unfit, 'Mid the tumultuous brood of shapes distort, To see one simple form, it was the fear Of fixed destiny, unavoidable, And not the longing for the well-known face, That drew her, drew her to the urgent sea.

without Occurrences 2%

THE MODE OF ARRESTING THE BLEEDING.The clothes of the child and the flannel roller must be taken off;the whole cord without delay must be unwrapped, and then a second ligature be applied below the original one, (viz.

like Occurrences 2%

But in the next event the old reliable Tug was entered, among others; and in the Rope-Climb he ran up the cord like a monkey on a stick, and touched the tambourine that hung twenty-five feet in the air before any of his rivals reached their goal, and in better form than any of them.

through Occurrences 2%

I really do not wake easily, and he rigged a cord through the wall so I could rest comfortably until the time for action came.

near Occurrences 1%

The eighth pair, called cervical, pass out in the region of the neck; twelve, called dorsal, in the region of the ribs; five are lumbar, and five sacral, while the last pair leave the cord near the coccyx.

after Occurrences 1%

A moment more and the lizard was gliding down his throat with my thin cord after it.

beneath Occurrences 1%

30 The tumbler whirls the flap-flap round, With somersets he shakes the ground; The cord beneath the dancer springs; Aloft in air the vaulter swings; Distorted now, now prone depends, Now through his twisted arms ascends: The crowd, in wonder and delight, With clapping hands applaud the sight.

toward Occurrences 1%

Further, let the spring balance be at the free end of the cord toward which the pulley runs.

Which preposition to use with  corded