Which preposition to use with neat

as Occurrences 32%

"But unless I'm mistaken, we can chop this out as neat as with an axe.

in Occurrences 28%

There was a messenger boy outside, looking smart and neat in his blue-and-gold uniform, and he touched his cap politely to the girl.

of Occurrences 7%

At last she sank down into this grave With the neatest of Boston dips.

than Occurrences 5%

She was nearly seventeen years old, not very tall, and her form, to speak charitably, was more neat than slender.

with Occurrences 2%

Make the edges neat with a knife or pastry cutter.

at Occurrences 2%

Pearl looked at herself critically in the glass: "These things should not count," she said, as she fastened a thin veil over her face and made it very neat at the back with a hairpin, "but they do.

about Occurrences 2%

Her sister heard of it, and came and took down one of the window shuttersMontgomery was neat about everything, and had shutters on the outside of every windowand beat him with it, being big and strong like her sister.

between Occurrences 1%

"There was your two bucks tucked away all nice and neat between the pages.

on Occurrences 1%

He had it all written nice and neat on the tag.

amid Occurrences 1%

It stood trim and neat amid the wreckage.

through Occurrences 1%

Behind them trailed the Wilbur twin, resolving, as was his weekly rule, to keep himself neat through church and Sunday-schoolyet knowing in his heart it could not be done.

to Occurrences 1%

Their habit is all white: but besides this he was infinitely clean in his person; and his apartment and garden, which he keeps and cultivates without any assistance, was neat to a degree.

for Occurrences 1%

What pleasure was there now in sitting at home Sundays, cleanly washed, with a neat red shirt on, when there was no one to be clean and neat for!

Which preposition to use with  neat