Which preposition to use with eatables

with Occurrences 3%

" The remittance men applauded this oratory, and incidentally attacked the eatables with evident determination to obey their leader's injunction.

of Occurrences 3%

When I arrived within two or three miles of the place the road was almost blocked up with people, and when I got to Oak's Corners the crowd beggared all description; carriages of all sorts were there, containing eatables of all kinds, and tents of all dimensions were on the road-side, for the houses could not begin to accommodate the people.

in Occurrences 3%

So, after a while, she gave it up and wandered down to the pantry, instinct leading her, for she was hungry and thirsty; but she knew there could be nothing eatable in a house closed for the summer.

before Occurrences 2%

She then spread abundance of eatables before him, and after he had eaten and drank his full, offered him as a treat a little of the plague medicine which she had in reserve.

at Occurrences 2%

The domestic duties of the butler are to bring in the eatables at breakfast, and wait upon the family at that meal, assisted by the footman, and see to the cleanliness of everything at table.

as Occurrences 2%

The girl withdrew into a corner, while Miss Brass opened the safe, and brought from it a dreary waste of cold potatoes, looking as eatable as Stonehenge.

on Occurrences 2%

They gave bountiful entertainments, not of a mere formal give-and-take character in which the feast largely consists of plate, fine linen, and flowers, the eatables on the side table, and too much remaining there.

to Occurrences 1%

When we had sat down, this Civility amongst us turned the Discourse from Eatables to other sorts of Aversions; and the eternal Cat, which plagues every Conversation of this nature, began then to engross the Subject.

between Occurrences 1%

And like a man used to the imposing appearance of the deserted church, he settled himself comfortably in the sacristy as in his own house, opening his supper basket on the chests, and spreading out his eatables between candelabras and crucifixes.

by Occurrences 1%

[40] To halal is to make lawful, here to cut the throat of a living animal in order that its flesh may be eatable by good Mussulmans.

for Occurrences 1%

I had to sit on the seat beside her, for the bottom of the buggy and the back were full of eatables for the poor sick animals.

from Occurrences 1%

One of Roswell's first objects was to transport most of the eatables from the wreck; for he foresaw the need there would be for everything of the sort.

within Occurrences 1%

Spreading out over a line of sixty miles, they gathered everything eatable within reach.

Which preposition to use with  eatables