Which preposition to use with noose

of Occurrences 22%

It was a sheath knife which he wore from a noose of silk around his throat, and it always lay closest to his heart.

over Occurrences 21%

Surveying the animal carefully, he untied the lariat and slipped a running noose over his nose; then giving a light bound, he was on his back in a second, and away went the horse and his rider, circling round and round on the prairie.

in Occurrences 9%

Set this directly at the root of the mule's ear, pull it tight on him, taking care to keep the noose in the same place.

from Occurrences 9%

" So Little John came to where the three youths stood trembling, and, putting his face to the first fellow's cheek as though he were listening to him, he whispered softly into his ear, "Stand still, brother, when thou feelest thy bonds cut, but when thou seest me throw my woolen wig and beard from my head and face, cast the noose from thy neck and run for the woodlands."

around Occurrences 8%

A criminal on the scaffold, with the noose around his neck, the trap about to be sprung, and receiving a pardon just at the last moment, thus giving him a new lease of life, could not have been more grateful than I was at that time.

at Occurrences 8%

I carry ever a noose at my girdle herebehold it!"

about Occurrences 7%

" "Hang me?" "Aye!" quoth Beltane, and setting the noose about his neck, cast the rope across a branch.

on Occurrences 4%

Nay, so futile did it seem to try to catch a Scotchman by advising him to put his head in a noose on the pretence of seeing how it fitted his neck, that he smiled even as the words came out of his mouth "Did you ever promise to marry Mysie Craig?" Was prudence, the chief of the four cardinal virtues, ever yet consistent with vice?

for Occurrences 3%

" "What shall we do then, sir?" "We'll have to manage to get by them some way; for if we should be caught now it would mean the noose for all of us.

to Occurrences 2%

Then she adjusted the noose to her own neck, raising her long, loose tresses carefully in order to fix the rope firmly in its place, and then, with a smile and wave of her hand to the bloodthirsty crowd present, she stepped calmly from the plank into eternity.

with Occurrences 2%

Less things than these have brought men to their ends and been the nooses with which Fate snared them running.

off Occurrences 1%

And, coming through the crowd, he threw the noose off my neck.

under Occurrences 1%

"Fix the noose under your arms, Steve," directed the master of ceremonies, calmly enough, though possibly Max was more excited than he chose to let the other see, "and get the knot around so it will be exactly in front.

without Occurrences 1%

" The valiant Triptolemus caught the word; and it is necessary to say that the patience of the whale, in suffering himself to be noosed without resistance, had abated his terrors, and very much lowered the creature in his opinion.

by Occurrences 1%

I wasn't going to have my little girl run her head into the noose by marrying Lathrop when it was you she loved.

Which preposition to use with  noose