Which preposition to use with forehead

with Occurrences 144%

Then, her face glowing with the most fervent expression of affection and sympathy, she embraced me, and touched my forehead with her divine lips.

of Occurrences 104%

"Let him take his try, Jack." As a matter of fact, had Donnegan reached for a gun, he would have been shot before even Landis could bring out a weapon, for the steady eye of Joe Rix, hidden behind the Pedlar, had been looking down a revolver barrel at the forehead of Donnegan, waiting for that first move.

in Occurrences 59%

I attached the mirror of a laryngoscope to my forehead in such a manner as to enable it to throw a strong reflection into one of my eyes.

to Occurrences 42%

When the preces or the preces feriales are said the sign of the cross is made from the forehead to the breast, at the words Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini.

on Occurrences 28%

" Nothing more was said for a full half-hour, till the Colonel, taking off his fur hat, and wiping his beaded forehead on the back of his hand, remarked: "Think of the Siege of Paris.

against Occurrences 17%

Barzú now took hold of the king's stirrup, and knocked his forehead against it, and drawing his dagger, threatened to put an end to himself, saying, "My blood will be upon thy neck, if thou goest;" and he continued in a strain so eloquent and persuasive that Khosráu relaxed in his determination, and observed to Rustem: "There can be no doubt that Barzú is descended from thee."

from Occurrences 14%

The dreadful scene presented him the mother lifeless, pierced to the heart, on a chair, her daughter yet wildly standing over her with the fatal knife, and the old man, her father, weeping by her side, himself bleeding at the forehead from the effects of a severe blow he received from one of the forks she had been madly hurling about the room.

like Occurrences 13%

Always there was the serpent with dripping fangs, sometimes with Armand's head, sometimes with a face unknown to me, but hideous beyond description; its slimy body glittered with inlay and arabesque; its scaly legs were curved like those of the Boule cabinet; sometimes the golden sun glittered on its forehead like a great eye.

between Occurrences 7%

When it was half done he stoppedthought profoundly with a furrow cutting deep into his square forehead between the straight brows.

into Occurrences 7%

" Agony wrinkled her forehead into a slight frown.

at Occurrences 6%

He struggled to speak, and the sweat broke from his forehead at the effort, but what he would have said I can only guess, for he died that night, without the iron bands which held him fast loosening for an instant.

under Occurrences 6%

There came almost wrinkles on his forehead under the fair locks.

above Occurrences 4%

Then, when the proper distance separates you, raise the right hand smartly till the tip of the forefinger touches the lower part of the headdress or forehead above the right eye, thumb and fingers extended and joined, palm to the left, forearm inclined at about 45°, hand and wrist straight.

by Occurrences 4%

He felt his forehead by accident and found it damp with sweat.

for Occurrences 3%

He is described as having "a lofty forehead for princely thought to dwell in, eyes for love or war, a nose of Grecian mould with touch of Rome, a mouth like Cupid's bow, ambitious chin dimpled and knobbed.

than Occurrences 3%

He lays you down an hundred wild plots, all impossible things, which you must be ruled by perforce, and he delivers them with a serious and counselling forehead; and there is a great deal more wisdom in this forehead than his head.

as Occurrences 3%

Both her dimples were buried out of sight, and she had as many wrinkles in her forehead as grandma Head.

after Occurrences 3%

His hand shook perceptibly as he mopped his forehead after sitting down, and he moved his chair uneasily twice because the incandescent light irritated his eyes.

without Occurrences 3%

To open the haemorrhoids with horseleeches, to apply horseleeches to the forehead without scarification, to the shoulders, thighs.

beneath Occurrences 2%

" His forehead beneath the shaggy black hair was deeply lined.

over Occurrences 2%

Often a slender lock, wound with brass wire or braided, hung down from one side of the forehead over the face.

towards Occurrences 2%

The chief greeted me by passing his hand over his forehead towards his breast; and, as a sign of his good will, offered me his arms, a club with an iron head, covered with a number of spikes.

through Occurrences 1%

Nor, if we turn to the present, is the evidence much stronger which is offered by the gens de couleur whom you may see in the quadroon quarter this afternoon, with "Ichabod" legible on their murky foreheads through a vain smearing of toilet powder, dragging their chairs down to the narrow gateway of their close-fenced gardens, and staring shrinkingly at you as you pass, like a nest of yellow kittens.

behind Occurrences 1%

The richness of Tommy's voice could not have struck you, for at that time it was a somewhat squeaky voice; and as for the noble forehead behind which nothing base could lurk, how could you say that, Pym, you who had a noble forehead yourself?

below Occurrences 1%

The hair on the muzzle and forehead below the topknot is quite short and smooth, as well as that on the stern.

Which preposition to use with  forehead