Which preposition to use with crease

in Occurrences 21%

Mandy watched her, fascinated as the lithe, strong young figure bent and strained to correct a crease in the web where it turned the roll.

of Occurrences 18%

For Appleboy, in spite of his apparent calm, was a very much frightened man, and under the creases of his floppy waistcoat his heart was beating like a tom-tom.

on Occurrences 4%

All the while she was examining various shapes of toothbrushes, she had a vision of George raising his hat to take leave of her, and she could see not only the curve of his hand and the whiteness of his cuff, but also the millions of tiny marks and creases on the coarse skin of his face, extraordinarily different from her own smooth, pure, delicate, silky complexion.

out Occurrences 4%

"We want you to see for yourselves how effectively we are smoothing the touge creases out of these baby midshipmen.

between Occurrences 4%

And Noel, with a great wonder in his eyes, slacked his bow, while his thoughts jumped far away to the den on the mountains where the trail began, and to three little cubs playing like kittens with the grasshoppers and the cloud shadows; for the great wolf that lay so still near them, his eyes fixed in a steady glow upon the coming caribou, had one ear bent sharply forward, like a leaf that has been creased between the fingers.

from Occurrences 3%

I've got to make an excuseI've got to get that blamed uniform pressed somehowI suppose it's creased from the dampness in that locker.

with Occurrences 2%

Their faces were scarred and wrinkled, their eyes dull, their hands whitened and creased with the constant exposure to damp and cold, yet the scars of frostbite were very few and this evil had never seriously assailed them.

at Occurrences 2%

Her limbs were of the girth of breadfruit-trees, and her bosom was as broad and deep as that of the great Juno of Rome, but her hands were beautiful, like a plump baby's, with fascinating creases at the wrists, and long, tapering fingers.

like Occurrences 2%

Here am I white-haired and creased like a dry pippin.

to Occurrences 2%

During those maddening days and nights Billy added a fresh crease to the group between his eyebrows and deepened the old ones, and Dill rode three horses thin galloping back and forth between the ranch and the herd, in helpless anxiety.

as Occurrences 1%

In some it is considerably knarled and creased as in the aged, and in others swollen, hard and resistant.

among Occurrences 1%

Two-storied, ivy-clad, hedge-girdled, dropped into a crease among the hills that look down dimly from above, as if they were hunting after it as ancient dames hunt after a dropped thimble.

through Occurrences 1%

It was a crease through his scalp where the second bullet had ploughed.

across Occurrences 1%

I can see him now, for he had so deep a crease across his brown cheek that no tear could pass it, but must trickle away sideways and so down to his ear, hopping off on to the sheet of paper.

for Occurrences 1%

"Even as it is, you're likely to carry creases for a while.

Which preposition to use with  crease