Which preposition to use with metal

of Occurrences 98%

He had, moreover, a large and productive farm, the increase arising from which, was laid out in exchange for the metal of which his nails were made.

in Occurrences 74%

"I never dreamed there was so much of my metal in her.

for Occurrences 30%

It is made of the metal for which nearly all young couples marry now-a-days, is as endless as their disagreements, and, by the new process, can be stretched to fit the Second wife's hand, also.

from Occurrences 27%

And therefore, though they had ideas enough to distinguish gold from a stone, and metal from wood; yet they but timorously ventured on such terms, as aurietas and saxietas, metallietas and lignietas, or the like names, which should pretend to signify the real essences of those substances whereof they knew they had no ideas.

on Occurrences 22%

He heard the scrape of metal on metal, as when a man gathers up coins in his hand out of a heap.

into Occurrences 20%

We drive out in the fresh morning air along the trunk road, which extends southwards of the holy city like a grey ribbon streaked by two parallel lines of lighter colour where the wheels of the bullock-carts have ground the hard metal into dust; and hard by the fifth milestone we come face to face with three stark hills, standing solitary out of the plain.

with Occurrences 18%

The result was two combinations, the original, with a tortoise-shell ground and metal applications; and the counterpart, appliqué metal with tortoise-shell arabesques.

by Occurrences 16%

A man, therefore, who accredits his metal by the work he accomplishes, will be readily enough heard when he comes to speak and labor upon higher platforms.

than Occurrences 11%

The NEWSPAPER, is the second-hand in the clock of history; and it is not only made of baser metal than those which point to the minute and the hour, but it seldom goes right.

to Occurrences 11%

" "The occupants of the motor-cars carrying gold to Russia are said to have transferred the precious metal to cyclists dressed as bricklayers.

as Occurrences 9%

Regan, who was made of the same hollow metal as her sister, was not a whit behind in her professions, but rather declared that what her sister had spoken came short of the love which she professed to bear for his highness: insomuch that she found all other joys dead, in comparison with the pleasure which she took in the love of her dear king and father.

against Occurrences 8%

Sure enough, there was the unmistakable jingle of metal against metal as though the trunk were filled with coins.

at Occurrences 6%

They separated at once, striding out with a measured step, and it was not until they moved that he caught the glint of metal at the side of one of them and knew that one was the man who had answered to the name of John Bard and the other was the grey man who had spoken to him at the Garden the night before.

under Occurrences 5%

He had been on the verge of attributing her gentleness to a blank, stupid mind; he began to realize that there was metal under the surface.

like Occurrences 4%

Beside the box lay a less damaged though still seriously injured object, in which I recognised the resemblance of a book of considerable thickness, and bound in metal like that of the case.

around Occurrences 4%

There ought to be a ring of babbit metal around that slot, tooI reckon I could get it in Watauga.

without Occurrences 3%

" The trio started off in the direction indicated, hurrying along the permanent way, hopping over the sleepers, and seeing how far they could run on one of the metals without falling off.

out Occurrences 3%

Now it is well known, that the strain required to punch a piece of metal out of a plate, is just the same as that required to tear asunder a bar of iron of the same area of cross section as the area of the surface cut.

through Occurrences 2%

The energy of burning coal, through the steam-engine, working the dynamo, is far cheaper and more efficient for producing electricity than the consumption of metals through the voltaic pile.

between Occurrences 2%

he inquired, clinking the strips of metal between his fingers.

across Occurrences 1%

"The second thing you did was, when hauling the fires, to drop red-hot metal across one of my shoes, setting it on fire.

over Occurrences 1%

Whilst I was here meditating on several Subjects of Morality, and considering the Nature of many Virtues and Vices, as Materials for those Discourses with which I daily entertain the Publick; I saw, methought, a Pair of Golden Scales hanging by a Chain of the same Metal over the Table that stood before me; when on a sudden, there were great Heaps of Weights thrown down on each side of them.

among Occurrences 1%

The tribute, subsidy, or remittance, is always in goods; for, unless the country possesses mines of the precious metals, and numbers those metals among its regular articles of export, it cannot go on, year after year, parting with them, and never receiving them back.

amid Occurrences 1%

How did that man regard such gifts as his, he wondered?Sylvanus Power, of whom he had seen it written that he was one of the conquerors of nature, a hard but splendid utilitarian, the builder of railways in China and bridges for the transit of his metals amid the clouds of the mountain tops.

along Occurrences 1%

A sword, described as having a long, slender, straight blade, inlaid with a flower pattern of yellow metal along the back, was probably an old Spanish rapier.

Which preposition to use with  metal