Which preposition to use with hips

of Occurrences 16%

"Draw!" There was a wink of light at the hip of Bull Hunter, and the gun roared.

to Occurrences 14%

The men go about naked with the exception of a cloth about the loins; and the women are equally unclad, some of them perhaps wearing an apron reaching from the hip to the knee.

with Occurrences 8%

On the 11th of February they came into collision with the natives, and Grey was severely wounded in the hip with a spear.

in Occurrences 7%

Sunk to the clamps, Stella held fast to the topsides, crouching on her knees, immersed to the hips in water that struck a chill through her flesh.

like Occurrences 5%

She undressed hastily, tearing off the thin laces of her corset that nestled around her hips like a gliding snake.

from Occurrences 3%

There on that bed of tender leaves, O lotus-eyed, embrace his hips, his naked hips from whence the girdle drops, Those hips from whence the garment falls, those loins which are a treasure heap, the fountain and the source of all delight.

at Occurrences 3%

"'Shooting from the hip at squirrels?' says I. 'I've read about that sort of stuff in a book, but it never was done out of print.'

for Occurrences 3%

I give you a fair warning; touch her no lower than her girdle, and no higher than her chin: I keep her lips and her hips for my own use.

by Occurrences 2%

The upper part of the body was covered as far as the hips by a bodice, which, however, did not fit close to the body.

during Occurrences 1%

He was shot in the hip during the War.

against Occurrences 1%

The Americans in the river, held their rifles and ammunition-belts high, and wriggled their hips against the butting force of the stream.

below Occurrences 1%

His eyes fastened greedily on her beauty, caressing the two bare arms, encircled with rings of metal, gliding along the curve of the hips below the high girdle, plunging amid the brown locks that waved above the brow and were tied back with three white fillets; they clung to the moving lips and the white, moist teeth that ever and anon flashed in the glare of the footlights.

under Occurrences 1%

After dinner my father waded in, going hips under where the water was deep and swift.

before Occurrences 1%

In her dark-blue dress, with the row of silver buttons down what was hip before the hipless age, the chest sufficiently concave and the silhouette a mere stroke of a hard pencil, Miss Selene Coblenz measured up and down to America's Venus de Milo, whose chief curvature is of the spine.

on Occurrences 1%

He had seated himself at the side, leaving free the hip on which his revolver was resting.

Which preposition to use with  hips