Which preposition to use with hammering

of Occurrences 55%

Under Arab chiefs they would have overcome all Eastern Europe, had it not been for the hammer of Charles Martel, which crushed them on the field of Poitiers.

on Occurrences 49%

One facetious class-mate, standing close to the sink, offered to sell him by auction; and hammering on the stones with the fragment of a bat handle, knocked him down for threepence to another joker, who said he'd do for a pen-wiper.

at Occurrences 49%

The Colonel opened the half-closed door and looked out, as Jack pushed aside the table, tore away the red curtain, hammered at the sash, then, desperate, set his shoulder at it and forced the whole thing out.

in Occurrences 40%

Wood pitched for one inning and was hammered in every direction by the New York players, who ran riot on the field.

of Occurrences 19%

Hence his increased pugnacity of late,his fierceness, and angry hammering of all things sacred and profane.

with Occurrences 17%

The great wheel below the flume rolled all day, throwing over its burden of diamond drops, and tilting the ponderous hammer with a monotonous clatter.

into Occurrences 14%

And when it isn't, what's the good of havin' it hammered into us how near we are to freezin' to death."

from Occurrences 13%

"I stopped a-past and borried the nails and the hammer from Jeff Dawes; I mighty nigh pounded my thumb off knockin' in nails with a rock an' a sad-iron last week.

for Occurrences 9%

Knapping-hammer, hammer for breaking stone.

against Occurrences 8%

But though the little bag was parched and dry, 'twas not so easily torn, and at last I struck off the corner of it with the sharp edge of my hammer against the bucket.

to Occurrences 8%

You'll be hammered to a pulp, Pen.

out Occurrences 7%

One bold sinner asserted, that before they reached their destination, they would have all his enthusiasm hammered out of him.

on Occurrences 4%

" A hammering on the clerk's little table announced that it was seven p.m.

in Occurrences 4%

We've been hammering wheat down and down and down till we've got it below the cost of production, and now she won't go any further with all the hammering in the world.

as Occurrences 3%

Nor is it a mere supposition to imagine that a body may exist wherein the other obvious qualities of gold may be without malleableness; since it is certain that gold itself will be sometimes so eager, (as artists call it,) that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself.

with Occurrences 3%

This was a knocking, like a soft hammering with a wooden mallet, as it seemed in the timbers between the bedroom ceilings and the roof.

over Occurrences 3%

His eyes flashed with indignation as he flourished the ponderous hammer over his head, as though it had been a small swordwhen, striking the metal he held in the forceps, a round, well-formed shield fell from the stroke.

than Occurrences 2%

"No; I have smaller hammers than that.

behind Occurrences 2%

Her tiny face seemed too small for the visitation of such suffering as burned and hammered behind the high white brow, and yellowed and drew tight the skin upon the cheeks.

by Occurrences 2%

Only in taking leave of this morning stage, throw your eyes back with us, Christian reader, upon this truly heathen meal, fit for idolatrous dogs like your Greeks and your Romans; survey, through the vista of ages, that thrice-cursed biscuit, with half a fig, perhaps, by way of garnish, and a huge hammer by its side, to secure the certainty of mastication, by previous comminution.

inside Occurrences 2%

" Jessie felt the irregular beat of a hammer inside her bosom.

above Occurrences 2%

As it swung up we all three sprang back, I with my pistol levelled, and the carpenter with the hammer above his head.

within Occurrences 2%

All you need do is just slip off some or all of your clothes, take the necessary amount of luggage in your hand, and float up in the air" In his emotion he dropped the tack-hammer within an ace of my head.

as Occurrences 1%

The 'sound common-sense' consisted, not, as Mr. Chesterton pretended to believe, in the presentation of the hammering as a logical argument, but in the orator's knowledge of the way in which force is given to non-logical inference and his willingness to use that knowledge.

at Occurrences 1%

It must have been midnight or past when there came a hammering at Blanche Devine's doora persistent, clamorous rapping.

Which preposition to use with  hammering