Which preposition to use with maul

about Occurrences 1%

She can turn it about to get the full, side, and back view of her performance, without touching the article in question, which, if it is mauled about ever so little, soon loses its freshness.

beside Occurrences 1%

"You kin go out over the perairah yander," said the farmer, dropping his maul beside a rail he had just split off,"there's a plain trail from Sykes's that'll bring you onto the road not fur from Sugar Crick."

in Occurrences 1%

"You never can take real pleasure again in any poetry that you have mauled in that manner.

into Occurrences 1%

There was only the splitting, the thunk of the maul into the chopping block, the klokking sound of pieces thrown on the pile . . .

like Occurrences 1%

Indeed for an immediate illustration of the products of the business toward which he was hastening I might have taken him by the arm and led him across two sets of tracks and shown him men in the prime of life who were hatcheled like flax, and mauled like blocks, and riddled like sieves, and macerated out of the living image of their Maker.

of Occurrences 1%

He was horribly mauled of course; in fact I believe he lost his arm, but he saved his life.

to Occurrences 1%

I have not preserved my life (often at infinite risk) through four and a-half years of high-pressure warfare to be mauled to death by a tin car at the finish.

unto Occurrences 1%

7, puts melancholy amongst one of those five principal plagues of students, 'tis a common Maul unto them all, and almost in some measure an inseparable companion.

Which preposition to use with  maul