Which preposition to use with patterns

of Occurrences 575%

As before, the fog fell, only to be succeeded by squally rain-showers that cut out the vista into a checkerboard pattern of visible sea and impenetrable greyness.

for Occurrences 80%

The term will cover building houses, making kettles, laying out streets, planning rooms, dressing hair, as well as making patterns for cushion covers and cathedral windows....

in Occurrences 78%

Thou art the pattern in this imperial school.

on Occurrences 61%

" The search, however, proved fruitless; and, what was worse, in turning over the contents of the shed, Acton discovered that a bull's-eye lantern belonging to himself had disappeared from the shelf on which it usually stood; while Mugford declared that a box of compasses, which he had brought down a few days before to draw a pattern on a piece of board, was also missing.

of Occurrences 43%

BENEDICT, RUTH. Patterns of culture.

with Occurrences 24%

That its colour harmonize with her complexion, and its size and pattern with her figure.

to Occurrences 22%

After I have attained to pari-nirvâna, you will serve as a pattern to the four classes of my disciples," and on this the image returned to its seat.

from Occurrences 13%

By the use of mail orders the mother on the farm can obtain whatever materials the particular "fashion magazine" to which she is a subscriber advises, together with paper patterns from which she can cut anything, from "jumpers" to a "coat for gala occasions.

AS Occurrences 11%

AS MEN'S CLOTHES ARE CUT HOUR-GLASS FASHION NOW, PUNCHINELLO SUGGESTS THE ABOVE PATTERN AS AN APPROPRIATE ONE FOR THEM.

after Occurrences 11%

It is a turning from a delight in sin, or an indifference to sin, or merely a moral aversion to it, to a deep-rooted hatred of every thought and act of sin, to penitence, and to an earnest desire to pattern after God. 4.

at Occurrences 7%

I saw a handkerchief of exactly similar pattern at Mrs. Holymead's house when I called there.

by Occurrences 6%

Here the tense, crystalline water is first dashed into coarse, granular spray mixed with dusty foam, and then divided into a diamond pattern by following the diagonal cleavage-joints that intersect the face of the precipice over which it pours.

like Occurrences 5%

A big black cloud went over the sun, and all in a minute the placid waters of the lake were rasped into a pattern like the soles of new rubbersthe trees were bendingcrows cawing excitedly, and the fire, spurred by the wind, went racing through the lake bottom and on its way up the bank toward the open country.

before Occurrences 3%

I want to arrange her pattern before dinner.

than Occurrences 2%

It will be a much better pattern than those over which you are accustomed to worry your pretty heads.

against Occurrences 2%

The cobweb-lace collar that so delicately traced its pattern against the black background of her gown was real.

for Occurrences 2%

And I cannot but think either of them sufficient and laudable Patterns for our Imitation in this Particular.

to Occurrences 1%

Mr. SPECTATOR, 'We are glad to find that you approve the Establishment which we have here made for the retrieving of good Manners and agreeable Conversation, and shall use our best Endeavours so to improve our selves in this our Summer Retirement, that we may next Winter serve as Patterns to the Town.

across Occurrences 1%

But now that familiarity with these bridges, which are of the same pattern across every wooded ravine up the coast-line to Redcar, has blunted my impressions, I can think of the picturesqueness of East Row without remembering the railway.

among Occurrences 1%

might possibly ... etc. I don't know what is comprised under the term chintzy, but it appeared to be a comprehensive one, for the nobleman descanted on the merits of the following patterns among others: (1) Cockatoos on trees, cockatooing.

beyond Occurrences 1%

In practice, an accurate distinction must be made between the conservative bourgeois state, the temporary transitional state and the universal socialist-communist state that will shepherd humanity along the difficult and dangerous path of the political life pattern beyond civilization.

off Occurrences 1%

" "This here wash silk, Mrs. C., would" "Send me up a dress-pattern off this coral-pink sample for Selene.

out Occurrences 1%

He is content to embroider his pattern out of the stray fancies of an imaginative nature.

over Occurrences 1%

The smoke of the machines went up in orderly perspective alongside the mounds of chaffthus: a machine, a house, a mound of chaff, a stretch of wheat in stocksand then repeat the pattern over the next few degrees of longitude.

through Occurrences 1%

These three threads are woven into a single pattern through the element of the common cause.

Which preposition to use with  patterns