Which preposition to use with racking
In the smallest possible compass, Miss Coblenz crouched now upon the floor, head down somewhere in her knees, and her curving back racked with rising sobs.
As they burnt up, their rays were reflected from the rack of firearms on the sidewall.
Took down from where?" "From the rack in the hall where I hang my things; the side hall leading to the door where we usually go out.
"I had searched the hall-rack for them; I had searched his closets; and was about owning myself to be on a false trail, when I spied this little door.
is regarded as the maximum safe gradient for an Abt rack railway, since the cog-wheel is liable to climb out of the rack on any steeper grade, it will be seen that the strain upon the credulity of the hearer of this story is almost as great as that upon the car must have been.
Steinmetz rose, and picking up the whip with the grunt of a stout man stooping, replaced it carefully in the rack over the mantelpiece.
THE PURPLE HEAD Half ignorant, they turned an easy wheel That set sharp racks at work to pinch and peel.
"Say, girls," she added, as she stuck her hat up in the rack above her head, "I just thought of something last night.
" "It is this: That Mr. Ivor Dundas, of England, has been on the rack to-day.
"What's happened to Cissie?" Vannie began weeping again with a faint gasping and a racking of her flat chest.
The lawyer's office was on Loudoun-street, and cantering briskly along the rough highway past the fort, he soon reached the rack before his door, and dismounted.
There were the same rusted muskets and small swords in the rack by the fireplace, and in front of the fire in a great, high-backed armchair my father was sitting.
Then Copley Banks glanced at the steward, and the man took a coil of rope from the shot-rack behind him.
Racey laid his final injunction on Rack as the girl in question joined them.
Staffy: The house is very racked beside what it was.
This disturbed Honey's aim to such an extent that instead of shooting Racey through the head he shot Rack through the hat.
There is a continuous rack along the sidewalk, each title beckoning for your attention.
About November or December, on a clear fine day, the wine should he racked from its lees into clean casks, which may be rinsed with brandy.
He gave the boy a cent to hold his horse, although nothing except a bushel of oats could have urged the old bone-rack into motion.
Coming into the little town, the freshly painted, swinging sign-board of the new tavern, "The Honest Georgian," as usual was the thing to catch her eye; but the instant after what should she see but Black Beetle hitched to the rack under the tree that shadowed the hostelry!
What if this Ugolin Did play the traitor, and give up (for so The rumour runs) thy castles to the foe, Thou hadst no right to put to rack like this His children.
Before him the Mausers, polished and orderly, shone in their new rack against the lime-coated wall.