Which preposition to use with fiddles

in Occurrences 29%

It seems that M. Théophile d'Aurelle plays the fiddle in the orchestra of the Café de Paris.

with Occurrences 26%

At midnight they saw sitting on a stone at the cave's mouth two red-capped fiddlers fiddling with all their might.

to Occurrences 12%

"Dan'l said he be hanged if he'd come," announced Tim, with a grim appreciation of the humorous side of the situation; "so I hung him and brought him alongand his fiddle to boot.

for Occurrences 5%

Dot brute Tim, he come unt ask me to fiddle for a dance.

at Occurrences 4%

The one has been led away by a love of etymologythe other would string the fiddle at the expense of poor puss's viscera.

over Occurrences 3%

He was a Tiberius, but not a Nero fiddling over national calamities, and surrounding himself with stage-players, buffoons, and idiots.

about Occurrences 3%

The queen answered, "Why should I do nothing but fiddle about the nursery?"

on Occurrences 3%

Her portholes and her bay-window were blazing with lights, and there was a noise of singing and fiddling on her decks.

out Occurrences 2%

A cat came fiddling out of a barn, With a pair of bag-pipes under her arm; She could sing nothing but fiddle-de-dee, The mouse has married the bumble-bee; Pipe, cat,dance, mouse, We'll have a wedding at our good house.

under Occurrences 2%

He clapped his fiddle under his chin and played the air of the andante from the Kreutzer Sonata with so singing and heavenly a tone that Sylvia, as helpless an instrument in his skilful hands as the violin itself, felt the nervous tears stinging her eyelids.

of Occurrences 1%

SUSAN Fiddle of the newspapers, who else can it be?

among Occurrences 1%

Old John's wants were inquired into, and we left him fiddling among his rusty tools.

as Occurrences 1%

And one that lov'd a Fiddle as her Life, Free from all sordid Ends, from Interest free, For my own Sake affecting only me, What a blest Union should our Souls combine!

by Occurrences 1%

" "I've had too good a nurse," he answered, stroking her hand, "not to be as fit as a fiddle by now.

after Occurrences 1%

I felt very anxious to make an excursion from St. Louis, and get a little shooting, either to the north-west or down near Cairo, where there are deer; but my companion was dying to get to New Orleans, and strongly urged me not to delay, "fiddling after sport."

against Occurrences 1%

The very way that the country fiddler held his fiddle against his chest and never against his shoulder like the trained musician!

through Occurrences 1%

The Council Fire was to be held on the great flat rock that overhung the Devil's Punch Bowl; an impressive place indeed to hold a Camp Fire Ceremonial, up there right under the stars, it seemed, with the wind fiddling through the branches all around them and the water whispering to itself below.

Which preposition to use with  fiddles