Which preposition to use with crapes

on Occurrences 25%

They claimed that we ought to have shown proper respect for the dead by closing the show for 30 days, and wearing crape on our arms, but a circus is not built that way.

around Occurrences 3%

The black grief which had filled her heart and overflowed in surges of crape around her person had left a deposit half an inch wide at the margin of her note-paper.

to Occurrences 2%

So mother added a little crape to her widow's weeds, the key of the closed room lay henceforth in her drawer, and all things went on as before.

in Occurrences 2%

Place a little water in a teakettle, and let it boil until there is plenty of steam from the spout; then, holding the crape in both hands, pass it to and fro several times through the steam, and it will to clean and look nearly equal to new. 2278.

of Occurrences 1%

My dame should dress in cheap attire; (Good, heavy silks are never dear;) I own perhaps I might desire Some shawls of true cashmere, Some marrowy crapes of China silk, Like wrinkled skins on scalded milk.

round Occurrences 1%

Look here, young lady," said the weather beaten sailor, as he pointed to a piece of crape round his hat; "this comes of being fond of one's own way.

about Occurrences 1%

it 'ud look very well to have crape about on my darter's weddin'-day.

up Occurrences 1%

Reserve was part of Cecil's nature, and besides, her father was almost always with her; but when she had been for the first time dressed in crape up to her waist, with the tiniest of caps perched toy-like on the top of her passive head, the sight upset him completely, and muttering, "Good heavens!a widow at twenty-two!" he hid himself from the sight over some business transactions with Mrs. Poynsett and Miles.

as Occurrences 1%

For one month all the free coloured people wore crape as mourning for Thomas Clarkson.

for Occurrences 1%

she whispered to her faithful maid, who was hurriedly sewing a mourning gown of crape for her.

into Occurrences 1%

" It was from this father who used to "stick" pale-blue flowers in his wife's belt, and whose love of delicate fabrics and tints made him courageous enough to lead her draped in Canton crape into the unpainted Cape Cod meeting-house, where her fellow-women bristled in homespun, that Mercy inherited all the artistic side of her nature.

Which preposition to use with  crapes