Which preposition to use with cracking

of Occurrences 342%

We broke into the boxes, and arrayed ourselves in various garmentswhich speedily fell to piecesand appropriated gim-cracks of all sorts.

in Occurrences 202%

A moment later a wave of lava, white-hot, red, iridescent, cooling to a black crust cracked in incandescence, rolled majestically out over the grassy plain.

of Occurrences 97%

For he could also see many men waiting for him with clubs, and he could hear the cracking of whips, and feel the sting of their lashes.

at Occurrences 51%

As I walked, it seemed that I could hear my dry joints, creak and crack at every step.

with Occurrences 48%

Just eight days later the two men walked into the Cabin and sat downPotts with a heart-rending groan, Mac with his jaw almost dislocated in his cast-iron attempt to set his face against defeat; their lips were cracked with the cold, their faces raw from frostbite, their eyes inflamed.

on Occurrences 35%

But at this Gray raised his head a bit, and once more declared in a fairly strong voice: "I'm not hurt, peopleonly a little crack on the head.

like Occurrences 27%

Bounding like a chamois o'er the rocks, to her house, she quickly returned with a long coil of rope, and instantly hurled it over the curling breakers with such a strong arm and true aim, that one end of it struck Mr. P. in the face with a crack like that of a giant's whip.

between Occurrences 23%

There was a wide crack between them in one place, and looking through it I could just make out that there was some boy standing there with what looked like a dirty apron over his trousers.

from Occurrences 19%

"Poor little Lady of Shalott," said Rudolph Musgrave, "the mirror is cracked from side to side, isn't it?

under Occurrences 18%

you're cracked, you" "Look here," interrupted Jack Vance, "where did you find the thing?" "Why, you know the window in the box-room that looks out on the 'quad;' well, there's a little crack under the ledge between the wooden frame and the wall, and this note was stuck in there.

into Occurrences 14%

It would be as rational to contend that a mirror which had been cracked into radii, by a bullet, like those we have so often seen in Paris, would reflect faithfully, as to suppose a mind familiarized to such abuses would be sensitive on practical and common sense things.

by Occurrences 10%

I had forgotten that he might see me do this through that crack by the hinges, but when I went out again, to show him his way and so get rid of him, my eye caught the gap, and I at once realised that he had seen my action, and that it must have aroused his curiosity to such an extent that it would be quite certain that he would think and speak of it.

to Occurrences 9%

I ripped the knife from his fingers, and we closed with bare hands; our muscles cracking to the strain, his voice uttering one croaking cry for help as I bore in on his windpipe.

over Occurrences 9%

Peter got a crack over the 'ead at the same time.

beneath Occurrences 9%

To and fro the wrestlers swayed, locked in vicious grapple, grimly silent save for the dull trampling of their feet upon the moss and the gasp and hiss of panting breaths; writhing and twisting, stumbling and slipping, or suddenly still with feet that gripped the sod, with bulging muscles, swelled and rigid, that cracked beneath the strain, while eye glared death to eye.

across Occurrences 8%

It is cracked across the middle.

as Occurrences 7%

Why, it is as cracked as Miss Quigley's voice!"

out Occurrences 6%

And first crack out of the box, as is so often the way with the Woosters, I got an idea.

against Occurrences 6%

The shadow convulsed as shadows are apt to swirl in a green pool when a stone is dropped into it; and a bit of board two feet long and some eight inches wide cracked against the shins of Lefty Joe.

through Occurrences 6%

It was a true monastic door with no crack through which even a fly could pass.

about Occurrences 4%

A girl who could make cracks about human pythons who ate nine or ten meals a day and ought to be careful not to hurry upstairs because of the danger of apoplectic fits is a girl, many people would say, in whose heart love is dead.

than Occurrences 3%

His voice was more cracked than usual.

around Occurrences 2%

The trees were bending and cracking around us, and the air was completely filled with the wild-fowl screaming and quacking as they made their way southward before the blast.

for Occurrences 2%

As with the clamp of Vachette so with this, a groove is burned into the wall on each side of the crack for the accommodation of the jaws of the instrument, and the clamp itself pressed home by means of a special pair of forceps.

off Occurrences 2%

There was a small pool of open water and a longish crack off Hut Point.

Which preposition to use with  cracking