Which preposition to use with grins

at Occurrences 199%

"Sing a song, Bibbs!" cried one voice; "Where's your neck-tie?" asked another; "What are you grinning at?" demanded a third; while the object of these pleasantries stood, with a vacant smile upon his face, nervously fumbling with his watch-chain.

of Occurrences 81%

I can see you yet, stepping up with that innocent grin of yours.

on Occurrences 55%

"Now, then," said Mr. Blake, looking up from his mark-book with a broad grin on his own face"now, then, there's nothing to laugh at.

with Occurrences 50%

He grinned with embarrassment, and hitched his head towards Kaviak.

in Occurrences 42%

" "Thank you, my dear," he said, grinning in an amused way.

from Occurrences 37%

And the fellow laughed aloud, while the police officers on either side of me grinned from ear to ear.

like Occurrences 29%

Then Charteris cocked his head to one side and grinned like a hobgoblin.

through Occurrences 14%

The ring-leader I haled to James Town, and had the pleasure of seeing him grinning through a collar in the common stocks.

to Occurrences 12%

On one occasion Cooke was missing from a morning rehearsal, and all had been some time in waiting for the tragedian, when the messenger whom Kerable despatched in search of him, returned grinning to the green-room.

behind Occurrences 7%

Pathetic, aye, patheticwith a grin behind the pathos, as there ever is.

about Occurrences 6%

"I'll give them something to grin about before they're much older.

over Occurrences 6%

Who in this street would carry my note, and not wink and grin over it with low surmises?

as Occurrences 5%

He joins the Mess and listens with an ill-concealed grin as each in turn boasts of the rat-catching powers of his dog at home.

for Occurrences 5%

Harry chuckled and grinned for a moment in his old foxy, peering way, and then wandered off again.

into Occurrences 5%

"Working day and night?" Donnegan smoothed his whiskers and grinned into the night.

under Occurrences 3%

Bruce was grinning under his sodden hair.

off Occurrences 3%

"I'll wipe that grin off his face!" muttered Pennington angrily.

above Occurrences 2%

Cerberus stands and grins above me now, Wearing three headslion, and lynx, and sow.

across Occurrences 2%

Bank over bank of earth and stone, cleft by deep embrasures, from which the great guns grin across the rich gardens, studded with standard fruit-trees, which close the glacis to its topmost edge.

around Occurrences 1%

grin around me, And stun me with the yellings of damnation!

between Occurrences 1%

They grin between the bars of dungeons, my friendat least, those who have heads left to grin with.

beneath Occurrences 1%

Robert de Genneville seemed to dance before her eyes and to mock her for the hopeless bewilderment in which she found herself plunged because of them; then all the faces vanished, or, rather, were merged in one long, thin, bird-like one, with bone-rimmed spectacles on the top of its beak, and a wide, rude grin beneath it, and, still puzzled, still doubtful, the young girl too paid for her scanty luncheon and went her way.

by Occurrences 1%

"Kiss the Book, if you please," said the usher, suppressing a grin by an heroic effort, as Mrs. Hornby, encumbered by her purse, her handkerchief and the Testament, struggled to unfasten her bonnet-strings.

without Occurrences 1%

It is difficult to draw them properly because, like Alice's 'Cheshire cat,' which at times became a grin without a cat, these faces have expression without features.

after Occurrences 1%

As I went out Meeker grinned after me and whispered something to Captain Riggs behind his hand.

Which preposition to use with  grins