Which preposition to use with grooves

in Occurrences 43%

It was very graceful,the tapering, three-cornered blade, with shallow grooves in which blood was soon to run, the silver hilt where his enemy's father had set, in florid letters, the name of "H.B. St. A. Chantel," and a date.

of Occurrences 42%

Thus the "great world spins forever down the ringing grooves of change."

on Occurrences 11%

("Adam's apple" is in the V-shaped groove on a line with B and C.) ]

at Occurrences 10%

When all the slab has been cut into bars, the wire and rod are next put into the grooves at right angles to the bars and again pulled through, thus dividing the bars into cubical cakes.

for Occurrences 7%

The white fibro-cartilage is found in the disks between the bodies of the vertebræ, in the interior of the knee joint, in the wrist and other joints, filling the cavities of the bones, in socket joints, and in the grooves for tendons.

along Occurrences 6%

The right way is to make a horizontal groove along the brass where it meets the upper surface of the bearing, so that the oil may be all deposited on the highest point of the journal, leaving the force of gravity to send it downward.

across Occurrences 4%

Now, however, I concluded to make twelve grooves across the sawn end of the stock, and fit the middles of the bows into these, one above the other, as I have already mentioned; and then to lash them at each side to bolts driven into the sides of the stock.

from Occurrences 4%

I saw him giving them an explanation of the Supper, and of the entire ceremony, and I was forcibly reminded of a priest teaching others to say Mass. He then drew a species of shelf with grooves from the boars on which the jars stood, and taking a piece of white linen with which the chalice was covered, spread it over the board and shelf.

into Occurrences 4%

A jest intervenes, the solemn humbug is dissolved in laughter, and speech runs forth out of the contemporary groove into the open fields of nature, cheery and cheering, like schoolboys out of school.

to Occurrences 4%

The common gridiron, for which see engraving at No. 68, is the same as it has been for ages past, although some little variety has been introduced into its manufacture, by the addition of grooves to the bars, by means of which the liquid fat is carried into a small trough.

around Occurrences 3%

" Stones, with grooves around their greatest circumference, are secured to a handle by a withe or thong and become war clubs.

between Occurrences 3%

It slips stilly by the glacier scoured rim of an ice bordered pool, drops over sheer, broken ledges to another pool, gathers itself, plunges headlong on a rocky ripple slope, finds a lake again, reinforced, roars downward to a pot-hole, foams and bridles, glides a tranquil reach in some still meadow, tumbles into a sharp groove between hill flanks, curdles under the stream tangles, and so arrives at the open country and steadier going.

with Occurrences 3%

It moved in its grooves with a vibrant stirring.

down Occurrences 2%

We notice a groove down the centre of each ray.

like Occurrences 2%

Their ideas didn't run in grooves like most of the men he lived with, and it was a pleasure to hear talk that wasn't political nor personal.

near Occurrences 2%

They packed the long groove near the stone fence; they rounded past the big boulder that could not be budged; last of all, they filled the short far row in the strangely shaped little field.

under Occurrences 2%

A stiff iron rod with a brass wire attached is put through the groove under the slab, the wire is brought over the slab, and the rod being pulled smartly through brings the wire with it, cutting the indigo much in the same way as you would cut a bar of soap.

IN Occurrences 1%

148.DIAGRAM ILLUSTRATING THE POSITION OF THE GROOVES IN THE WALL IN COLONEL SMITH'S OPERATION FOR SIDE-BONE.

over Occurrences 1%

The relative position of the several extensor tendons on the back of the wrist and fingers as they play in their grooves over the back of the radius and ulna can be distinctly traced when the several muscles are put in action.

round Occurrences 1%

This is accomplished by running a groove round the inferior edge of the hoof by removing a portion of the bearing edge of the wall with a specially devised drawing-knife.

OF Occurrences 1%

XXXI GROOVES OF CHANGE

between Occurrences 1%

[Illustration: Fig. 98.Surface of the Palm of the Hand, showing the Openings of the Sweat Glands and the Grooves between the Papillæ of the Skin.

behind Occurrences 1%

Nasal shields ovate, triangular, rather anterior, with a groove behind the nostril.

beyond Occurrences 1%

The most striking part of the Oyster-catcher is its bill, the colour of which is scarlet, measuring in length nearly four inches, wide at the nostrils, and grooved beyond them nearly half its length: thence to the tip it is vertically compressed on the sides, and ends obtusely.

by Occurrences 1%

The lucky ones marry well-to-do widowers with large families, and so slip into a comfortable groove by the time they are five-and-thirty.

Which preposition to use with  grooves