Which preposition to use with corking

in Occurrences 27%

Mac picked up a billet of wood, and drove the cork in flush with the neck.

of Occurrences 13%

" "And that's what saved the bottle from breaking," said Daddy Blake, "If I had not wired down the cork of our bottle the water would have pushed itself up, after it was frozen, and would have stuck out of the bottle neck, like a round icicle.

on Occurrences 9%

come, come, my little Dido, set your corks on a creaking, my knaves are unthrifty; dance not your Canaries heere up & down, looke about to my Guests I say. Hostis.

to Occurrences 8%

Many the time have I held a champagne cork to my nose, closed my eyes and dreamed that I was having a time.

from Occurrences 7%

Carolyn June asked, pulling the cork from the bottle and holding it poised over the pan of water in which the shirt, a slimy, dingy mass, floated drunkenly.

at Occurrences 7%

After scrubbing out with the soda solution, plug the bore from the breech with a cork at the front end of the chamber or where the rifling begins.

out Occurrences 6%

The ice tried to push the cork out of the bottle, just as you would try to push up the lid of a box if you were shut up inside one.

WITH Occurrences 6%

[Illustration: CORK WITH WOODEN TOP.] CORKS WITH WOODEN TOPS.These are the best corks to use when it is indispensable that the air should not be admitted to the ingredients contained in bottles which are in constant use.

for Occurrences 4%

When clear, it should be bottled and closely corked for a year; it will then be ready for use, but will keep any length of time.

than Occurrences 1%

Was there a better maker of poteen in the County Cork than my own father, rest his soul!

up Occurrences 1%

It came in with a swishing roar, a rush and rise of furious water that swept us like corks up the beach, till we were within touch of the rope's-end, and the men shouted again to hearten us as they flung it out.

within Occurrences 1%

'The shallowness of the boat and the bulk of cork within allow but little room for water; so that even when filled it is in no danger of overturning or sinking, like other crafts.

about Occurrences 1%

In case you don't know, a topi is a sun-hat, a white thing, large and saucer-like, lined with green, with cork about it somewhere, rather suggestive of a lifebelt; horribly unbecoming but quite necessary.

of Occurrences 1%

Then later she came and told me you were out there, and I thought it was corking of you to come and tell them they couldn't put that over on College Hill.

above Occurrences 1%

For like the cork above the net, while the rest of the tackle laboureth deep in the sea, I am unmerged in the brine.

after Occurrences 1%

Whiskey to right of them, Cocktails to left of them, Popping corks after them, Volleyed and thundered, Yet, 'twere but truth to tell, Many a hero fell.

before Occurrences 1%

As if stung by a sudden sense of the sea, of its perfume and its freedom, he imagined the filling of the sails and the rattle of the ropes, and how a fair wind would carry him as far as the cove of Cork before morning.

beneath Occurrences 1%

Two of the firemen wore large moustaches of burnt cork beneath their helmets, and another (who was cast to play the Turkish Knight) had found no time to remove the bright blue dye he had been applying to his face.

between Occurrences 1%

Then they strip off the sheets of cork between the circles.

by Occurrences 1%

We have had a beautiful day and have been going slowly along and expect to be in the Cove of Cork by daylight in the morning.

inside Occurrences 1%

There is no need to rush off to Mr. Farlow and buy up his stock of may-flies; for though he does not tie his own flies, our angling friend has a goodly stock of them neatly arranged in rows of cork inside a black tin box; and, depend upon it, they are the right ones.

into Occurrences 1%

" "One day I noticed that the natter-list had stuffed small corks into the muzzles of all the six barrels of his revolver.

Which preposition to use with  corking