Which preposition to use with fingers

of Occurrences 637%

The finger of Time is swift.

on Occurrences 455%

From that time on I was virtually a prisoner; yet so carefully was my surveillance accomplished that I could place my finger on nothing definite.

in Occurrences 387%

With finger in ear to allay the tickling sensation, JUDGE SWEENEY declares that this young man smelling of cloves is a person of great intellectual attainments, and understands the political genius of his country well enough to make an excellent Judge of Election.

to Occurrences 255%

" "But it's wrong," cried Captain Parkinson, setting finger to the spot.

at Occurrences 229%

The venerable commanding Muskeeter had dodged, and was settin' on the burow, with his thumb on his nose, wrigglin' his fingers at me in a very ongentlemanly manner.

into Occurrences 122%

" Mrs. Judge Hildreth dipped her jeweled fingers into the perfumed water of her finger glass and dried them on her silk-fringed napkin.

with Occurrences 100%

Consider attentively, in the first place, that undaunted son of Alcmena, who, laying aside his arrows and the formidable skin of the huge lion, was fain to adorn his fingers with green emeralds, and to smooth and adjust his bristling and rebellions hair.

through Occurrences 76%

The Boy jumped up, and ran his fingers through his long wild hair.

over Occurrences 71%

"You just seem to live in the present," wealthy Mrs. Greyson said with a sigh, as she folded her jeweled fingers over her rich brocade, "I don't see how you do it!

for Occurrences 52%

" "Have another fizz," he said, clicking his fingers for a waiter.

from Occurrences 50%

His left arm was gone and all the fingers from his right hand.

against Occurrences 37%

" "Don't talk," she said, a frown lowering over her closed eyes and pressing two fingers against each temple.

about Occurrences 24%

It occurred to me that old Scissors couldn't have been much of a scholar; at all events he breathed very hard for an educated man, and he had a rough, muscular way of moving his fingers about my upper story, that made those regions ache every time he touched them.

between Occurrences 23%

She held a book in her left hand, with one finger between the leaves, as though the summons to the door had interrupted her reading, and glanced inquiringly at the visitors, waiting for them to intimate their business.

like Occurrences 20%

Then he turned to Mac, and, pointing a finger like a straw (nothing could fatten those infinitesimal hands), he said gravely and fluently: "Maw in de plenty-bowl.

under Occurrences 20%

Didn't anybody love you?" said Dotty, putting her fingers under Mrs. Read's cap, and smoothing her soft gray hair; "why, I love every hair of your head.

towards Occurrences 19%

reiterated the Captain, again lifting up his finger towards the topmast, or the sky beyond.

across Occurrences 19%

Thus winter, springtime, and ripe, fruit-dropping summer coexisted, touching fingers across the seventy miles that lie between the icy top of the Sierra and the burning lowlands.

along Occurrences 19%

The natural effect is greatly aided by the sliding of the finger along the note, especially in the case of the lowing of cattle; but there are other exclamations that are readily reduced to music.

down Occurrences 18%

Or again, "A gentleman of good habit, sitting just before us, eating of some fruit in the midst of the play, did drop down as dead; being choked, but with much ado Orange Moll did thrust her finger down his throat and brought him to life again."

as Occurrences 17%

Then Beltane took from his pouch flint and steel and tinder and gave them to the old man's trembling fingers as Giles o' the Bow came running with the stalwart friar behind him.

by Occurrences 15%

There we were waited on dutifully by kind old servants, and might not soil our fingers by any coarse work.

toward Occurrences 13%

So Steve crooked his finger toward Bandy-legs and Toby, lounging near by; and being in a humor themselves for any sort of thing, the pair hastened to join him.

around Occurrences 13%

Andy hooked his finger around one of the staples.

out Occurrences 11%

In playing baseball a swift ball often knocks a finger out of joint.

Which preposition to use with  fingers