Which preposition to use with limes

in Occurrences 41%

We can trace, indeed, every successive stage in the removal of the carbonate of lime in descending the slope of the ridge or plateau where the Globigerina ooze is forming, to the region of the clay.

of Occurrences 9%

The Leipziger Volkszeitung for July 16th, 1915, contains more than a column about "We and the French," in which the German party spreads the usual Teutonic lime of sophistry and empty phrases.

from Occurrences 9%

" Now I take for granted that you are all more learned than these black fellows, and know quick-lime from flour.

to Occurrences 9%

No one certainly has ever come by the narrow way out of the High Street, down the avenue of limes to the West Front without being disappointed; but no one thus disappointed has ever entered into the church without astonishment, wonder and complete satisfaction.

for Occurrences 8%

It is on the property of a Mr. John J. Gordon, and produces a very fine limestone for use in the furnaces and forges in the vicinity, as well as lime for agricultural purposes, it being the only limestone in the vicinity for fifteen miles.

with Occurrences 8%

The water principally contains sulphate of lime with a small proportion of carbonate of iron: its action is diuretic and laxative.

into Occurrences 5%

and as the words died away one that was present passed two green limes into his left hand and asked for a sign.

on Occurrences 5%

Bad smells are sometimes met by sprinkling a little liquid chloride of lime on the floor; fumigation by burning pastiles is also a common expedient for the purification of the sick-room.

at Occurrences 4%

And they had plenty of lime at hand if they had chosen to make mortar.

as Occurrences 3%

The necessity for the steady supply of phosphorus and lime to the body is the cause of the popularity of Mapes's superphosphate of lime as a manure.

of Occurrences 2%

They of the limites of Famagusta do keep the statutes of the Frenchmen which sometimes did rule there.

by Occurrences 2%

To take a single instance, the development of the long bones is dependent upon the handling of food lime by the body.

en Occurrences 2%

Den dat Yankee made de niggers fix up a mixtry er lime en ashes en manyo, en po' it 'roun' de roots er de grapevimes.

like Occurrences 2%

In this fluid are found some minute crystals of lime like tiny particles of sand, called otoliths, or ear-stones.

than Occurrences 2%

Not that many remarkable objects met their view; yet fragments of antiquity were often seen, though many of them were probably brought far from the edifices to which they had originally belonged; not for their beauty, or on account of the veneration which the sight of them inspired, but because they would burn into better lime than the coarser rock of the hills.

across Occurrences 2%

To come out of the sloping High Street past the ancient city Cross, through the narrow passage-way into the precincts, and to pass down that great avenue of secular limes across the Close to the great porch of the Cathedral, is to come by an incomparable approach to perhaps the most noble and most venerable church left to us in England.

over Occurrences 1%

The stands of the oyster-men constantly sent forth an organic perfume from the spent wave, and all around them empty shells scattered their disks of pearly lime over the mud.

without Occurrences 1%

He was, like our own Bacon, hard-hearted and hypocritical, as to his literary merits, Caligula, the excellent emperor and critic, (who made sundry efforts to extirpate the writings of Homer and Virgil,) spoke justly and admirably when he compared the sentences of Seneca to lime without sand.

around Occurrences 1%

Then they painted rings of lime around the trunks of trees to prevent the caterpillars leaving those they had already stripped.

against Occurrences 1%

All the drab and dreary side of war was in that little mountain townsmashed houses; sidewalks, streets, and fences splashed with lime against cholera; stores closed or just keeping alive, and here and there signs threatening spies and stating that any one found carrying explosives or building fires would be shot.

between Occurrences 1%

Other campers' comforts, too, had been secured, so that they even carried a certain amount of condensed food in the shape of milk powder; evaporated eggs that could be used to make excellent omelets in case of necessity; and even soup in double cans, with a layer of unslacked lime between, which, by the addition of a little water to the lime could be heated up beautifully without the aid of a fire.

below Occurrences 1%

If the caterpillar has begun its attack, sprinkle some fresh lime below the bushes, and shake the bushes vigorously, so that the insects are dislodged. Gorse.

Which preposition to use with  limes