Which preposition to use with fuss

about Occurrences 166%

If there is anything in a name, no one will gainsay the observation that if hugging has lost its charm, Mrs. HUGG is the last person to make a fuss about it.

over Occurrences 56%

You're going to stop making a fuss over me and begin to make a fuss over your country.

with Occurrences 43%

"Dave was fussing with ropes and buckets the other day," she recalled.

of Occurrences 15%

Great hiss and fuss of cooking was going on in the kitchen, and great rapping and tapping of wine kegs and beer barrels was going on in the cellar.

in Occurrences 12%

an unnecessary amount of fuss in the way of letting off steam, the afternoon train from London came to a standstill in the station at Detton Magna.

at Occurrences 9%

"I'm fussing at building a barn, but a fine chance I got.

for Occurrences 6%

Well, I only hope Henshaw has not been playing the fool, or worse, and caused all this fuss for nothing.

around Occurrences 4%

For my part, I am fond of everyone, and it delights me to fuss around invalids and assist them.

as Occurrences 4%

My name is Prather, and yours?" As he surveyed the man before him, Bill was as fussed as the giant of the fairy story had been by a display of yellow.

than Occurrences 3%

He made more fuss than Bill Chambers a'most, 'specially when they dropped 'im off a hurdle carrying him 'ome, and the things he said to Dr. Green for rubbing his 'ands as he came into the bedroom was disgraceful.

on Occurrences 3%

Mr. Downing was a curious man in many ways, but he did not make a fuss on ordinary occasions when his bowling proved expensive.

among Occurrences 2%

There was a scramble and a rush and a fuss among the Good Dreams, just as there had been before when the children first peeped into the glade, each one struggling and pushing and crowding to get ahead of the next, without any regard as to whether or not it was wanted.

to Occurrences 2%

Foolish old fellow that you are, fretting and fussing to the end!

aboutabout Occurrences 1%

Mary's eyes sparkled as she thought of some of the smart things she could say the next time Esther began to make a fuss aboutabout the matter of the ruby ring, for instance.

between Occurrences 1%

I wonder what was at the bottom of the fuss between him an' her?"

by Occurrences 1%

"Daddy has been put up to making a fuss by a goody-goody widow who's making up to him just now."

from Occurrences 1%

To hurt his pride the more, in every direction military squads with bayonets fixed were smartly fussing from one small domicile to another, hustling out the laggards and marching them to encampments on the public squares.

like Occurrences 1%

Schulze came twice that day, looked in twice the next day, and fussed like a disturbed setting-hen when his patient forestalled the next day's visit by appearing at his office for treatment.

after Occurrences 1%

No good hostess fusses after her guests.

round Occurrences 1%

"I always thought he was one, for he fusses round the trees the same as they do, though of course he has much more of a song.

through Occurrences 1%

They fuss through a chapter here and there, and rush lickety-brindle through another, and ain't got the blessed truth out of any of 'emlittle fine points, like where the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart every time, for why?because if He hadn't 'a' done it Pharaoh would 'a' give in the very first time and spoiled the whole thing.

against Occurrences 1%

Fuss against Fuss; and another, Love against Love.

Which preposition to use with  fuss