Which preposition to use with rasping

in Occurrences 12%

"Here, sir, don't handle that!" rasped in the voice of Whittam.

of Occurrences 11%

Garnish your dish with raspings of bread, and serve it up with toasts of bread or French roll.

of Occurrences 7%

"Prosit, Barnett," said the man, in a voice like the rasp of rusty metal.

to Occurrences 6%

Nothing was said till the door had closed behind her; then Jeff broke the silence, in a voice with a strange rasp to it.

at Occurrences 4%

While Petrak held the spoke of the wheel with one hand, he rasped at the iron upon it with a file, cutting away the heavy manacle.

against Occurrences 2%

Once they climbed the trees when he came, but Tharagavverug went up to one, arching his back and leaning over slightly, and rasped against the trunk until it fell.

along Occurrences 2%

I could not hear it when the vessel pitched, but when she took a long roll to starboard it rattled a second and then rasped along the board.

like Occurrences 2%

The Limpet crawls to the seaweed and begins to browse, using a rasp like that of the Periwinkle.

on Occurrences 2%

But unfortunately circumstances demand it; and the boy himselfthe boy himself, well" his voice softened imperceptibly, rasped on a note of tenderness, "he wants looking after; he's young, you know.

over Occurrences 2%

Now and then his feet brushed through a soft tuft of parsley fern: but soon even that sign of vegetation ceased; his feet only rasped over rough bare rock, and he was alone in a desert of stone.

with Occurrences 2%

" Dan's voice rasped with tension.

by Occurrences 1%

But we passed the prison doors one by one, and the jailer of the Wolfsberg went coughing and rasping by to another part of the prison.

through Occurrences 1%

Suddenly the voice of Dr. Brander rasped through his brain, and brought him to attention: "Clay, you're in love, or somethingI don't believe you've heard a word I said, you young scamp, in the last six milesand you've missed a fine exposition on cancerscauses and cure.

off Occurrences 1%

For a minute I saw only the blazing blue eyes, and the red glazed point which stabbed and stabbed, rasping off to right or to left, and yet ever back at my throat and my breast.

into Occurrences 1%

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.

out Occurrences 1%

The kernel is rasped out of the woody shell of the nut on rough boards, and left to rot; and a few boats in a state of decay, elevated on posts in the open air, serve as reservoirs, the oil dropping through their crevices into pitchers placed underneath; and finally the boards are subjected to pressure.

Which preposition to use with  rasping