Which preposition to use with leant
He himself stood almost always leaning against the mantelpiece.
He was still a trifle weak and uncertain, was still a little glad to lean on the arms of his companions, but his eye was bright and alert, and his hollow cheeks mounted a slight colour.
He glanced aloft, cast a speculative eye on the stevedores trooping across the waist of the ship, and ascended to the quarter-deck where the mate stood leaning over the rail and uttering directed curses from between sweat-beaded lips.
" In a common impulse the little circle leaned to him.
I know one lady of otherwise careful appetite who even leans toward dates if she may buy them from a cart.
He lowered his voice, and leaned towards his Circle friend.
" "Farva," remarked Kaviak, leaning out of the bunk and sniffing the savoury steam.
" She leaned from him, her two hands against his chest, head thrown back and eyes up to him.
My brother leans across the guard to view the miracle.
Is not Mr. DROOD at home with you?" "Norrabit'v it," pants the organist, releasing his man's throat, but still leaning with heavy affection upon him: "m'nephews wen 'out with 'm f'r li'lle walker mir'night; an' 've norseen'msince.
A tipsy Christmas tree leaned in drunken fashion against the wall, and under its boughs lay a forgotten child asleep.
My breath came with a gasp, and I leant against the wall.
They stopped and leant over them to give them a drink from their flasks when the wounded men blew their brains out.
He used to say, I was too lean for Suett.
This is a history of doings, not of thoughts, or I would have much to tell of what I saw during those months, when, lean as a bone, and brown as a hazelnut, I tracked the course of the great rivers.
Her left hand clasped in mine, her right in Eveena's, looking most in my face, because weakness leant on strength even more than love appealed to loveEunané spent the remaining hours of that night in calm contentment and peace.
The apple-john is that mysterious leathery fruit, sold more often from a stand than from a cart, which leans at the rear of the shelf against the peppermint jars.
Now came Beltane and leaned above her.
But think of the gastronomic ups and downs of a bird that is fat and lean by turns twelve times a year!
His breakfast had been a failure, and now he was as hungry as the leaner of the two bears of Palestine which tore forty-two children who made faces at Elisha.
But the best came when the sun had lowered behind the grove, the company grown more silent, and Mrs. Forrester, leaning beside the door of the tower, turned the great pegs of a Chinese lute.
Man," he leant across the gaily decorated table, with its crystal, its pink shades, its pretty flowers, and compelled his host to meet his flaming eyes,"man, I risked my wife's love and respect.
And this sudden conviction filled Mathieu with such a glow that he leant towards his wife, who sat there deeply moved by what he said, and kissed her ardently upon the lips.
" Nash strode back to lean into the car.
I caught sight of Mabel Ticknor in the front compartment of our car, and Grim pointed out Yussuf Dakmar leaning through a window of the car behind.