Which preposition to use with diagrams

of Occurrences 80%

Day after day Barney skirted furtively about the uncompromising walls of Libby and Castle Thunder, where once or twice he had gone with his hosts to make a mental diagram of the place for future use.

by Occurrences 30%

The astrologers divided the heavens into twelve houses; and the diagrams by which they represented the relative positions of the heavenly bodies, they called schemes.

in Occurrences 14%

Don't try to remember any diagrams in a book.

on Occurrences 13%

The diagram on p. 107 shows an ideal convoy with six destroyers protecting it, disposed in the manner ordered at the start of the convoy system.

from Occurrences 10%

I may say that, in estimating the engine power and coal consumption, I have not, as in the original report, made purely theoretical calculations, but have taken diagrams from engines in actual use (although of somewhat smaller size than those intended to be employed), and have worked out the results therefrom.

for Occurrences 4%

There are thus in the slave price diagram for the nineteenth century a plateau, with a local peak rising from its level in the sugar district, and three solid peaksall of them separated by intervening valleys, and all corresponding more or less to the elevations and depressions in the cotton range.

with Occurrences 3%

Like a flowering tree whose blossoms have been prematurely swept off by a cold wind was the maiden, as she sat there, abstractedly drawing geometrical diagrams with her pencil.

of Occurrences 2%

"A Practical Grammar for the English Language;" (with Diagrams of Moods;) 12mo: Portland, 1829.

to Occurrences 2%

This being clearly excessive, let us next see what will occur if the lever arm, CH, be reduced as in the diagram to CK.

below Occurrences 1%

The increments of load should be chosen so as to furnish about ten points on the stress-strain diagram below the elastic limit.

before Occurrences 1%

The thickness of the puddle wall varies considerably in the different examples given in the diagrams before you, a fair average being the Row bank of the Paisley Water Works, Fig.

as Occurrences 1%

I use the diagram as a resting-place for the memory, placing a number on it and finding it again when wanted.

underneath Occurrences 1%

Imagine a scientifically-minded threadworm to inhabit a page of Euclid's solid geometry: the evidences of three-dimensionality are there, in the very diagrams underneath his eyes; but you could not show him a solidthe flat page could not contain it, any more than our space can contain a form of four dimensions.

at Occurrences 1%

Q.And how is this area ascertained? A.It may be ascertained in various ways; but the usual mode is to take the vertical height of the diagram at a number of equidistant points on a base line, and then to take the mean of these several heights as representative of the mean pressure actually urging the piston.

like Occurrences 1%

But, in order that I may be specific and definite, I will draw up a plan for the regular division of time, for a common school, not to be adopted, but to be imitated; that is, I do not recommend exactly this plan, but that some plan, precise and specific, should be determined upon, and exhibited to the school by a diagram like the following: FORENOON.

Which preposition to use with  diagrams