Which preposition to use with pare

off Occurrences 9%

As bacon is frequently excessively salt, let it be soaked in warm water for an hour or two previous to dressing it; then pare off the rusty parts, and scrape the under-side and rind as clean as possible.

in Occurrences 3%

From being in the first instance the head of the Christian church in the old Imperial city, and afterward Patriarch of the West, and primus inter pares in relation to the other spiritual heads of Christendom, the bishop of Rome had gradually claimed, on the strength of his occupying the cathedra Petri, a position which approximated more and more to that of supremacy over the whole Church.

of Occurrences 3%

I sold a pare of white ones to-day to Wilfred Garbett, to be kept three weeks after birth, Eva Gayton wants a pare too any color, in July.

with Occurrences 3%

The sole of the same side is also pared with the knife until the horn of both the quarter and the sole yields easily to pressure of the thumb.

to Occurrences 3%

The next week another entry went into the book: I sold another pare to-day I've raised the price this pare is to be delivered in Ogist.

as Occurrences 2%

This will be noticed in a foot which has just been pared as a narrow white or faint yellow line on the inner or concave face of the wall at its lower portion.

down Occurrences 2%

Pare down the cold beef into thin shreds, season with pepper and salt, and mix it with the batter.

for Occurrences 2%

" Inside the men were laughing uproariously, mingling accounts of love and war in a confused medleyhow a sweetheart in Petersburg was only waiting for the stars on her lover's collar to make him happy; how the Yankees would be wiped out of the Peninsula as soon as Jack Magruder got his nails pared for fight; how three Yankees had been gobbled that day, and how others were in the net to be taken in the morning.

into Occurrences 1%

At this first juncture, the king saved from the massacre none but his surgeon, Ambrose Pare, and his nurse, both Huguenots; on the very night after the murder of Coligny, he sent for Ambrose Pare into his chamber, and made him go into his wardrobe, says Brantome, "ordering him not to stir, and saying that it was not reasonable that one who was able to be of service to a whole little world should be thus massacred."

from Occurrences 1%

The adventurer was stuffing his pipe with rank Indian tobacco, which he pared from a plug with a scalping knife.

on Occurrences 1%

Some days after this interview, in May, 1491, Charles, without saying anything about it to the duchess, Anne of Bourbon, set off one evening from Plessis du Pare on pretence of going a-hunting, and on reaching Berry sent for the Duke of Orleans from the Tower of Bourges.

before Occurrences 1%

If the fruit was pared before drying, a little more water will be required.

until Occurrences 1%

The foot is then secured as described in an earlier chapter, and the whole of the horny structures of the lower surface of the foot (the sole, the frog, and the bars) pared until quite near the sensitive structures, or, if under-run with pus, stripped off entirely.

at Occurrences 1%

In a sort of court of honour a group of muscular, hairy males, silhouetted against an illuminated latticework of scaffolding, were chipping and paring at huge blocks of stone.

Which preposition to use with  pare