Which preposition to use with fittings

of Occurrences 42%

It was bare: there was not a piece of furniture in the room; not even a solitary fitting of any sort.

for Occurrences 41%

In each ship there were as many as eighty men, officers and seamen, and the others of the leader's family, servants and relations, all filled with the desire to undertake the labor that was fitting for each, and with great trust in the favors which they hoped for from the King on their return to Portugal.

to Occurrences 27%

After long and somewhat painful inspection, since most of the things she wanted were hopelessly beyond her, Johnnie carried home a fairly fine white lawn, simply tucked, and fitting to perfection.

in Occurrences 12%

It was his invariable practice, whatever studies he exacted from me, to make me as far as possible understand and feel the utility of them: and this he deemed peculiarly fitting in the case of the syllogistic logic, the usefulness of which had been impugned by so many writers of authority.

out Occurrences 10%

The chances of the success of the hunting flotillas had been promising in the early experiments, and the fitting out of patrol craft and organizing and drilling them, proceeded as rapidly as the vessels could be obtained, but largely owing to the slow production of trawlers it was not until November that the first hunting flotilla fitted with the "fish" hydrophone was actually at work.

on Occurrences 4%

Within the square was Roger, hoarse-voiced, with Beltane's battered war-helm on a pike whereto the foresters musteredhardy and brown-faced men, fitting on bascinet and buckling belt, yet very quiet and orderly.

up Occurrences 4%

In the two latter the arrangements, both in the fittings up of the play-grounds, galleries, and school-rooms, were made under my especial inspection, and I have no doubt that the use of the gallery, when it becomes more generally known in large schools, will become universal.

as Occurrences 3%

More fitting as guide, would be a friar, a pardoner, traveling priest, or strolling pilgrim.

into Occurrences 2%

" Circumstances work clock-fashion, wheel fitting into wheel, when those tides that Shakespeare spoke of are at flood.

from Occurrences 2%

The single under-vestment of softest hide, closely fitting from neck to knees, is of all garments the best adapted to preserve natural warmth under the rapid and extreme changes of the external atmosphere.

at Occurrences 2%

WEINMAN, JACK L. Fitting at noon.

than Occurrences 2%

Still, when the scheme was settled, even the library became more a matter of panelling and internal fittings than of structural design.

with Occurrences 1%

" "We will, indeed," said Mr. Fairfield, and both he and Aunt Alice entered into the selection of the tea-table fittings with as much zest as they had shown in the other china.

against Occurrences 1%

The dilator, hoof-spreader, or vice, as it is variously called, is then applied, its two jaws (a and b) fitting against the inner edge of the shoe at the heels.

around Occurrences 1%

The food was rough but good, and the smack of the salt air and the sea-fittings around him gave zest to his appetite.

over Occurrences 1%

Now it would be cavalry, with accouterments jingling and horses scrouging in the close-packed ranks; else a battery of the viperish looking little rapid-fire guns, or a battery of heavier cannon, with cloth fittings over their ugly snouts, like muzzled dogs whose bark is bad and whose bite is worse.

under Occurrences 1%

We carried her in and laid her upon ye bed and then I got my kniffe ready and fitting under pretence of doing sum great matter then presently she came to herselfe & said to me Joseph what are you about

above Occurrences 1%

It was a girl in man's clothes, except for a white cap on her head, tight-fitting above her eyes.

Which preposition to use with  fittings