Which preposition to use with forearm

with Occurrences 8%

"Oh, boy," she said"Edwin!"holding to his forearm with fingers that tightened into it.

of Occurrences 6%

Where the moon's rays splashed across the bare right forearm of Bull, he sent a bullet that slashed through the great muscles.

at Occurrences 5%

In bending the forearm on the arm, familiarly known as "trying your muscle," the power is supplied by the biceps muscle attached to the radius, the fulcrum is the elbow joint at one end of the lever, and the resistance is the weight of the forearm at the other end.

across Occurrences 4%

" Mr. Batch wiped his forearm across his brow, his voice jerking between the squeak of nails extracted from wood.

on Occurrences 4%

Rest the forearm on a table, with the palm up (an attitude called supination).

against Occurrences 3%

"I mean," I said, "I mean that I have taken all the necessary steps to be forearmed against you.

in Occurrences 1%

REMARKS.The right arm may be slightly bent, although the difficulty of holding the pistol uniformly and of keeping it as well as the forearm in the same vertical plane makes this objectionable.

into Occurrences 1%

It forms the fleshy mass on the back of the arm, its use being to draw the flexed forearm into a right line.

as Occurrences 1%

Raise the forearm as in SUSPEND FIRING and swing it up and down several times in front of the face.

to Occurrences 1%

In this position the sling binds the left forearm to the rifle and to the ground so that it forms a dead rest for the rifle, with a universal joint, the wrist, at its upper end.

under Occurrences 1%

Then Sir George, his left forearm under the other's chin, flung him three paces away; and shifting his sword into his right handhitherto he had been unable to change ithe stopped Dunborough's savage rush with the point, and beat him off and kept him offparrying his lunges, and doing his utmost the while to avoid dealing him a fatal wound.

for Occurrences 1%

His long arm jerked back, the revolver whipped into his hand, and he stiffened his forearm for the shot.

before Occurrences 1%

Racey, attending strictly to his knitting, bored Honey Hoke with a bullet that removed the top of the second knuckle of Honey's right hand, shaved a piece from the wrist bone, and then proceeded to thoroughly lacerate most of the muscles of the forearm before finally lodging in the elbow.

Which preposition to use with  forearm