Which preposition to use with muck

of Occurrences 8%

A questionable woman in The Vicar of Wakefield betrays her lack of breeding by the remark that she is in a muck of sweat.

about Occurrences 5%

You, if I may remind you without wounding your feelings, fell into the error of mucking about with psychology in connection with this Fink-Nottle, and the result was a wash-out.

with Occurrences 5%

But show (no hurry) this unique recantation to Mr. Rogers: 't is like a dirty pocket-handerchief mucked with tears of some indigent Magdalen.

like Occurrences 2%

I don't look muck like a lover, Yet I say her love words over.

from Occurrences 2%

Now if their guest of honor, with or without his friend, would but stop at this pool to wash the Stock-Landing muck from his horse's shinsbut even luck has its limits.

for Occurrences 2%

I believe it is generally the case, when a young worman throws aside the delicacy and feelings which ought to be the characteristics of her sex, and which teach her studiously to conceal her admiration, that she either becomes in time cynical and disagreeable to all around her from disappointment, or persevering in her efforts, as it were, runs a muck for a husband.

on Occurrences 1%

But there was another thing he did; ye'll see some muck on my face and on my jacket.

round Occurrences 1%

You think so?" "You'd think so if you'd been mucking round the East End all Winter with your life in your hands.

through Occurrences 1%

Pray, whom should we write for, in this age which makes its own epic upon sounding anvils, and whose lyric is yelled from the locomotive running a muck through forest and field and beside the waters no longer still?

as Occurrences 1%

'The principal thing's muck as these here airly tates require.'

among Occurrences 1%

and darted for the main aisle, intending to run a muck among his persecutors.

in Occurrences 1%

An' its food, of all the muck in the whole Bush ismoss!"

against Occurrences 1%

Only don't kick too hard; for, after all, it has a hundred million pair of shins to your one.' 'Don't fear that I shall run a-muck against society just now.

Which preposition to use with  muck