Which preposition to use with crusts

of Occurrences 244%

Mr. Barnett's very accurate explosivesSlade's insistenceyour risking your lives as you did, mites on the crust of a red-hot cheeseI hope you know how I feel about it all.

with Occurrences 46%

As considerable dexterity and expertness are necessary to raise the crust with the hand only, a glass bottle or small jar may be placed in the middle of the paste, and the crust moulded on this; but be particular that it is kept warm the whole time.

on Occurrences 24%

It is God who provides the river and the sea; God who through endless ages has piled stone on stone, crust on crust, and has crumpled the strata of the earth as tissue in His hand.

in Occurrences 22%

Boil the bread crusts in the stock with the butter; beat the whole with a spoon, and keep it boiling till the bread and stock are well mixed.

for Occurrences 15%

This paste may be converted into an excellent short crust for sweet tart, by adding to the flour, after the butter is rubbed in, 2 tablespoonfuls of fine-sifted sugar.

by Occurrences 14%

Pare and take out the cores of the apples without dividing them, and make 1/2 lb. of suet-crust by recipe No. 1215; roll the apples in the crust, previously sweetening them with moist sugar, and taking care to join the paste nicely.

to Occurrences 13%

I fastened a hard, durable crust to my belt by way of provision, in case I should be compelled to pass a night on the mountain-top; then, securing the remainder of my little stock against wolves and wood-rats, I set forth free and hopeful.

over Occurrences 12%

The January wind came up with a sharp, dreary sough into the defiles of the hills, crusting over the snow-sweeps with a glaze of ice that glittered in the pearly sunlight, clear up the rugged peaks.

from Occurrences 10%

I am used to that for I have picked up enough of it; and crusts from the dust, and when they were too hard and dry, I would soak them all night in my basin.

at Occurrences 7%

Clean three of the feet, and place them in a hole made in the crust at the top: this shows what kind of pie it is.

into Occurrences 6%

To slip through the crust into the boiling water beneath would inevitably involve being scalded to death, and the man who allows the guide to show him where to tread exhibits the greater wisdom.

without Occurrences 4%

" Roswell caught a glimpse of the same object, and thither our adventurers now bent their steps, walking on the crust without any difficulty, so long as they kept out of the drifts.

as Occurrences 4%

Look upon crust as a joke, and learn jump turns, which are the only safe turns for any but the strongest runners.

out Occurrences 3%

I behold your race, like starving mariners on a raft, plucking crusts out of the hands of famine and feeding on each other's lives.

between Occurrences 3%

Crack, crack! warned the ice-crust between him and that long fall to the river.

like Occurrences 2%

Such minds, crusted like Plato's Glaucus with the world, are yet pervious to appeals to the spirit that survives beneath the dry dust amid which they move; but only at rare intervals can they accompany the pure lyrist "singing as if he would never be old," and they are apt to turn with some impatience even from Romeo and Juliet to Hamlet and Macbeth.

along Occurrences 2%

Another moment, and she was pushing over the crust along the trail by which the Blackfoot had come.

about Occurrences 2%

There we found a little hole,for it was more a hole than a room,entirely hidden under the ivy and ruins, in which there was a quantity of straw laid in a corner, as if some one had made a bed there, and some remains of crusts about the floor.

within Occurrences 1%

The temperature should be high enough to arrest the fermentation, which it will do at a point considerably below the boiling point of water, and at the same time to form a shell or crust, which will so support the dough as to prevent it from sinking or collapsing when the evolution of carbonic acid gas shall cease; but it should not be hot enough to brown the crust within ten or fifteen minutes.

above Occurrences 1%

The cross-roads were deep in mud, all the worse because it was beginning to dry on the surface, forming a tough crust above the hasty-pudding which, if broken through, held the horse's leg suspended as in a vice, and would have thrown him down, if it were possible to throw down a West-Indian horse.

behind Occurrences 1%

" They wandered about the docks all day, dodging official observation, and ate their midday crust behind the cinder-shed that had been their shelter over-night.

before Occurrences 1%

For savory pies beat the yolk of an egg, dip a paste-brush into it, and lay it on the crust before baking.

Which preposition to use with  crusts