Which preposition to use with gripe

of Occurrences 27%

full well ye have stood, While the gripe of gaunt Famine has curdled your blood!

in Occurrences 9%

Surcharged with emotion, the nature of which he feared, Dorn followed the corporal, stumbling and sliding over the wet boards, knocking bits of earth from the walls, feeling a sick icy gripe in his bowels.

with Occurrences 5%

And now within the gloom steel rasped steel, groping hands seized and griped with merciless fingers; figures, dim-seen, sank smitten, groaning beneath the press.

on Occurrences 3%

In pulling the creature about, in great amazement, he suddenly receives a gripe on the hand; the twinkling of the half-closed eye, and the breathing of the creature, evince that it is not dead: and he adds a new term to the vocabulary of his language, that of "playing possum.

like Occurrences 2%

When a man is full of ginger ale his intestines loop the loop, and tie up in knots, and gripe like cholera infantum, and unless his friends hold him he goes out into the world and wants to kill the women and children, and non-combatants.

as Occurrences 2%

Griping as Helland as insatiableworse than a Brokering Jew, not all the Twelve Tribes harbour such a damn'd Extortioner.

from Occurrences 1%

Collected the horses early, but two of them appeared to be much griped from eating the coarse grass, and I therefore delayed starting till 7.40 a.m., and then ascended the stony range to the south-east and reached the tableland.

by Occurrences 1%

What it wer he could not think; but he never consayted there was a freet or a bo thereaway; so he kep near it, watching every spang and turn it took, till it ran into the gripe by the roadside.

to Occurrences 1%

The gripes to them!"

beneath Occurrences 1%

" In the midst of this torrent of general ridicule, the Highlander instinctively griped beneath the folds of his plaid.

Which preposition to use with  gripe