Which preposition to use with plaster

of Occurrences 58%

Stereotyping is the transfer of pages of movable type into solid metal plates, by the medium of moulds formed of plaster of Paris, papier-mâché, gutta-percha, or other substances.

with Occurrences 55%

When the shrine is reached, one of the brothers steps forward with a winnowing-fan, the edge of which is plastered with ghi and supports a lighted wick; and as he steps up to the shrine, the relations and friends of the deceased again press forward and place offerings of fruit and flowers in the fan.

on Occurrences 22%

If the people living thereabouts have a sore on their heads, they plaster on it some of the earth from this, and feel immediately easier.

over Occurrences 14%

By three in the afternoon I was as unkempt as any tinker, my hair plastered over my eyes, and every fold of my coat running like a gutter.

in Occurrences 12%

" "How can you when you are demolishing plaster in Christopher Columbus' house or falling into the crater of Mt. Vesuvius?

from Occurrences 7%

Poison Prominent Symptoms Antidotes and Treatment Strong Acids: Muriatic, Burning sensation in No emetic Saleratus; Nitric, mouth, throat, and chalk; soap; plaster from Sulphuric (vitriol), stomach; blisters the wall; lime; magnesia; Oxalic.

for Occurrences 6%

I have to stop in at Greenberg's and get a mustard plaster for the parrot.

to Occurrences 5%

" Into my dining room was then ushered a tall, smartly dressed, smooth-faced man of perhaps middle age, with yellowish hair compactly plastered to his head.

between Occurrences 2%

" Even as he spoke a hole appeared in the dirt plastered between the logs, a rifle muzzle protruded, and one of the Hungry Folk clapped hand to his side and leaped in the air.

across Occurrences 2%

At an earlier date Mr. Pendennis had exercised the profession of apothecary and surgeon, and had even condescended to sell a plaster across the counter of his humble shop, or to vend tooth-brushes, hair-powder, and London perfumery.

into Occurrences 2%

According to another story Kelemen Orzo ordered his faithless wife Krisztina Olaszi to be plastered into the wall of the room.

before Occurrences 1%

During service in the Free Church at Brodick, some portion of the ceiling gave way, Mr. CROSSLEY was covered with plasterbetter to be covered with plaster before than after an accidentand "his hat was cut to pieces."

beside Occurrences 1%

I saw a man with a white beard sitting under the portico of his door, and several men were grinding materials for plasters beside him.

at Occurrences 1%

I got a small piece of iron, therefore, from the fittings of my bed, and I set to work to loosen the plaster at the top and the bottom of the bar.

as Occurrences 1%

They had dug the tunnel to this point and excavated a place which they had guarded with a steel door, but, in order to conceal the hiding place, or whatever it might be, they cunningly worked the false wall of dirt against the face of it, using clay and a thin coating of plaster as a base.

against Occurrences 1%

He certainly looked strangely weird in the semi-darkness with his lanky hair plastered against his cheeks, his collar half torn from round his neck, the dripping, oily substance flowing in rivulets from his garments down upon the ground.

above Occurrences 1%

[Illustration] CHAPTER IV THE STORM Holman glanced inquiringly at the piece of sticking plaster above my right eye when he met me on the deck the morning after the knife incident, and I grinned sheepishly.

behind Occurrences 1%

repeated Ithuel, looking curiously round him, as he took a seat at a third table, shoving aside the glasses at the same time, and otherwise disposing of everything within reach of his hand, so as to suit his own notions of order, and then leaning back on his chair until the two ends of the uprights dug into the plaster behind him, while the legs on which the fabric was poised cracked with his weight; "honor the saints!

Which preposition to use with  plaster