Which preposition to use with naked

to Occurrences 83%

Flamm Avenue, which is treeless and built up for its entire length with two-story, flat-roofed buildings, stares, window for window, stoop for stoop, at its opposite side, and, in summer, the strip of asphalt street, unshaded and lying naked to the sun, gives off such an effluvium of heat and hot tar that the windows are closed to it and night descends like a gas-mask to the face.

in Occurrences 70%

They are men of the moist, fertile tropics, brown of skin, and working half naked in their fields, like the peoples of Southern India and Bengal.

as Occurrences 37%

There was the schooner, naked as your hand.

on Occurrences 27%

He had not sailed far, when his ship was overtaken by a dreadful storm, and every man on board perished except Pericles, who was cast by the sea-waves naked on an unknown shore, where he had not wandered long before he met with some poor fishermen, who invited him to their homes, giving him clothes and provisions.

of Occurrences 18%

It is often the sole reward of a man's virtue and all the fruit of his industry; so that by depriving him of that, he is robbed of all his estate, and left stark naked of all, excepting a good conscience, which is beyond the reach of the world, and which no malice or misfortune can divest him of.

before Occurrences 15%

She had the feeling, someway, that her whole soul was naked before it.

from Occurrences 13%

Then Job arose, and cut his coat, and did do shave his head, and falling down to the ground, worshipped and adored God, saying: I am come out naked from the womb of my mother and naked shall return again thereto.

with Occurrences 11%

Eat thy bread with the hungry and needy, and cover the naked with thy clothes.

into Occurrences 11%

The next day, very early in the morning, he came quite naked into the street, having only a scarf about his middle, holding in his hand a scythe, and tossing about his hair as the priests of Cybele; then getting on the top of a high altar, he said that the place was happy to be honoured by the birth of a god.

through Occurrences 10%

Philemon Holland's Plinie, Bk. XI, ch. xxii: 'The invention of that fine silke, tiffanie, sarcenet, and cypres, which instead of apparell to cover and hide, shew women naked through them.'

at Occurrences 9%

In the beginning of May, the women usually begin to bathe; and custom and purity of morals has made it a law among them, that they should first strip themselves quite naked at home, and they then go to the bath at the distance of a bow-shot from the house.

like Occurrences 8%

But his words, if dry, are always manly and honest; there dwells in his pages a spirit of highly abstract joy, plucked naked like an algebraic symbol but still joyful; and the reader will find there a caput mortuum of piety, with little indeed of its loveliness, but with most of its essentials; and these two qualities make him a wholesome, as his intellectual vigour makes him a bracing, writer.

under Occurrences 6%

In East Prussia, the sap of dog-wood, absorbed in a handkerchief, will fulfil every wish; and a Brandenburg remedy for fever is to lie naked under a cherry-tree on St. John's Day, and to shake the dew on one's back.

among Occurrences 6%

[-5-] "Now being of such an origin yourself, and after growing up naked among your naked companions, picking up pig manure and sheep dung and human excrement, have you dared, O most accursed wretch, first to slander the youth of Antony who had the advantage of pedagogues and teachers as his rank demanded, and next to impugn him because in celebrating the Lupercalia, an ancestral festival, he came naked into the Forum?

for Occurrences 6%

Most of the Shasta chaparral is leafy nearly to the ground; here the main stems are naked for three or four feet, and interspiked with dead twigs, forming a stiff chevaux de frise through which even the bears make their way with difficulty.

after Occurrences 3%

"They search women who pass, feeling all over their bodies, taking from them money and whatever else they carry and if they come on them in a lonely place they strip them naked after violating them and do not leave a rag on them.

without Occurrences 2%

As he had said, he felt worse than naked without his revolvers under his touch, but now he attempted to brave out the situation.

along Occurrences 2%

Instantly, then, shouts of laughtertorchlight scattering the shadows amid gloomgreen cypresses firecolor splurging on the bosom of the waterbabel of hundreds of voices as the gay Antiochenes swarmed out from behind the treesand a cheer, as the girls by the altar threw their garments off and scampered naked along the river-bank toward a bridge that joined the temple island to the sloping lawns, where the crowd ran to await them.

between Occurrences 2%

The manner of this cruel execution is as follows: four stakes are driven down, making a long square; the culprit is extended naked between these stakes, face downwards; his hands and his feet are bound separately, with strong cords, to each of the stakes, so far apart that his arms and legs, stretched in the form of St. Andrew's cross, give the poor wretch no chance of stirring.

during Occurrences 2%

The young children, until they can work, often go naked during the warm weather.

above Occurrences 2%

The Gauls were naked above the navel: the Spaniards stood arrayed in linen vests resplendent with surprising whiteness, and bordered with purple.

by Occurrences 1%

Thus desperately resolved, they went to work; but the first party had not gone far, before they called out to the rest, that they had found Tom Jeffery; whereupon they all ran up to the place, and found the poor fellow indeed hanging up naked by one arm, and his throat almost cut from ear to ear.

beside Occurrences 1%

This silent world with truth is rife, This wooing air is warm. Now fall the thin disguises, planned For men too weak to walk unblamed; Naked beside the sea I stand, Naked, and not ashamed.

beneath Occurrences 1%

The French army is in a valley, almost without artillery and without supplies, utterly naked beneath their hail of lead.

out Occurrences 1%

They who travel it, even as they came naked out of their mother's wombeven as they return thither, and carry nothing with them of all which they have gotten in this life, so must those who travel to my land.' 'What? Tregarva?

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