Which preposition to use with olive

of Occurrences 26%

To make OLIVES of BEEF.

in Occurrences 15%

Place a filled olive in the centre; sprinkle with chopped hard-boiled eggs and garnish with fillets of anchovies and sprigs of parsley.

with Occurrences 6%

Later in the morning she came to Olive with the timid yet startling proposal that they would do what they could to brighten up the long-neglected front room.

to Occurrences 6%

She drew Olive to her by some unknown force and held her fast, not realizing at the moment that she was getting as much as she gave.

for Occurrences 5%

For Beppo was one of the men whose task it was to climb the olive-trees and shake down the olives for the women gathering below.

from Occurrences 4%

But when the fruit is getting ripe, watchmen are appointed to guard the grove and prevent a single olive from being touched even by the person who has a right to the tree.

on Occurrences 4%

We know that gentians grow on the Alps, and olives on the Apennines; but we do not enough conceive for ourselves that variegated mosaic of the world's surface which a bird sees in its migration, that difference between the district of the gentian and of the olive which the stork and the swallow see far off, as they lean upon the sirocco wind.

at Occurrences 2%

Ali Cogia told me it contained olives at the first.

by Occurrences 2%

These were succeeded by olive-trees, the olives by vines, these by sweet-scented shrubs, and these again by timber trees, whose wood was useful for building.

without Occurrences 1%

She looked at Olive without words, and Olive looked straight back at her with that withering look of the righteous condemning the ungodly which so often regarded a dumb but rebellious congregation through the Vicar's stern eyes.

than Occurrences 1%

His complexion had decidedly more of the olive than the copper hue, and his countenance was grave, almost melancholy.

about Occurrences 1%

He flatters himself that it has a smack of grape-juice and olives about it.

Which preposition to use with  olive