Which preposition to use with inanimates

for Occurrences 5%

] The substitution of inanimate for animate power, if not the panacea which is to cure all the evils of our condition, is at least one that comes recommended as a matter of facteasy of operation, and effectual in its result.

as Occurrences 1%

Pedro had not moved; he still leaned against the hedge inanimate as a mannikin.

at Occurrences 1%

The clouds roll away, and leave the world revealed, lying motionless and inanimate at my feet.

in Occurrences 1%

His pardner came round the pile and his eyes fell on their common sleeping-bag, the two Nulato rifles, and other "traps," that meant more to him than any objects inanimate in all the world.

of Occurrences 1%

These, by a peculiarity of the grammar, are referred to as subordinate parts, or increments inanimate of the organization, i. e., as things without flesh and blood, and not as units or whole bodies.

on Occurrences 1%

The affair seemed to be considered as a huge joke, and the chief amusement now consisted in hanging over the broken side and contemplating the gruesome spectacle of a half-submerged motor, and four human bodies lying inanimate on some rocks, rapidly swelling, thanks to heat and the current.

than Occurrences 1%

" He was bled, and, though still unconscious, became less rigid They then poured a little wine down his throat, and he fell into a passive but painless condition, more inanimate than sleep, but less positive than a state of trance.

aboard Occurrences 1%

His boys, searching far and wide, discovered John Fanshawe in the back premises of a Malay go-down, oblivious to all things, and bore him inanimate aboard ship.

to Occurrences 1%

The word in Maya for rainbow is chel or cheel; ix is the feminine prefix, which also changes the noun from the inanimate to the animate sense.

Which preposition to use with  inanimates