Which preposition to use with rims

of Occurrences 433%

Only the circular rim of the sun showed brightonly this, and one thin streak of light near the equator.

with Occurrences 25%

Gradually, even this thread of light died out; and now, all that was left of our great and glorious sun, was a vast dead disk, rimmed with a thin circle of bronze-red light.

in Occurrences 13%

With such a sunset already waned, and the valley of unrest fifteen stories below popping out into electric signs and the red danger-lanterns of streets constantly in the remaking, Mrs. Harry Ross, from the corner window of her seventeen, looked down on it from under lids that were rimmed in red.

on Occurrences 9%

Leo Markovitch, with all his monograms on his shirt-sleeves and such black rims on his glasses, ain't the Rosenthal Vetsburg Hosiery Company, not by a long shot!

to Occurrences 6%

" We raised our tumblers and clinked them together with a force that cracked mine from the rim to the bottom.

for Occurrences 4%

Iron-rimmed for its busy revolution and outward contact is the life and strength of man; but the tempered steel is at the heart and within the soul of the woman, that she may bear the silent pressure of the axle, and quietly and invisibly originate and support the entire onward movement.

above Occurrences 4%

As shown in No. 30 the protruding brim gives the head and face the unattractive proportions of the capital letter "F." The length of the nose is emphasized by the line of the hat-rim above it and it appears unduly obtrusive.

like Occurrences 3%

A large iron plate, with a turned-up rim like a great baking-pan, supported by legs which held it off the ground, was set over a fire built upon the sand.

at Occurrences 3%

If we suppose one half of the rim to be so fixed to the shaft as to be incapable of detachment, then the centrifugal force of the other half of the rim at the moment of rupture must be equal to 30,000 lbs.

into Occurrences 3%

This was what he had longed for each winter night when he had seen the sun go down,the word of the Lord to follow that sun on over the rim into the pathless wilderness, infested by savage tribes and ravenous beasts, abounding in terrors unknown.

around Occurrences 3%

If they have just plain, black eyes, they're all right; but if they have grey eyes, with red rims around 'em, they're vampires.

about Occurrences 2%

Where the mountains are steep and the rains heavy, the pool is never quite dry, but dark and bitter, rimmed about with the efflorescence of alkaline deposits.

as Occurrences 2%

The laundress, with diabolical cunning, takes care to place her trade-mark as near the top rim as possible.

from Occurrences 2%

The people who affect to cheat him, apparently cut the rim from a modern hat, and place the scull-cap in his hands; and then begins the almost finest piece of acting that I ever witnessed.

near Occurrences 1%

The ledge was bare and unprotected, polished to the same velvety smoothness as the spot on the rim near which we stood, and when one looked at it and then let his eyes glance over the infernal depths that were immediately beneath, the brain reeled with thoughts of the danger to which a climber would be exposed while making his way along it to the cavern in the wall.

along Occurrences 1%

The only known mode of avoiding a passage through this gorge was by a circuitous route, following the eastern slope of the rim of the Great Basin northward, more than a hundred miles, to Soda Springs, at the northern bend of Bear River, the principal tributary of the Salt Lake,then crossing the rim along the course of the river, and pursuing its valley southward, and that of the Roseaux or Malade, into Salt Lake Valley.

off Occurrences 1%

My old man's been too busy all these years sitting out there in that marble tomb in Kingsmoreland biting the rims off pennies to hold me back from the devil.

by Occurrences 1%

After an hour I was sure that I could reach the rim by this route, and of course that stimulated me.

out Occurrences 1%

After the pan is greased with butter, roll out a piece of dough quite thin, lay it in the pan, press a rim out of the dough all around the pan and let it rise for about ten minutes.

over Occurrences 1%

It is sufficient to rim over Cowley once; but Parnel, after the fiftieth reading, is fresh as at the first.

round Occurrences 1%

Q.Is the piston of an oscillating engine made deeper than in common engines? A.It is expedient, in oscillating engines, to form the piston with a projecting rim round the edge above and below, and a corresponding recess in the cylinder cover and cylinder bottom, whereby the breadth of bearing of the solid part of the metal will be increased, and in many engines this is now done.

beneath Occurrences 1%

Soft sunlight flickers on the checkered green: Warm winds are stirring round my dreaming seat: Among the yellow pumpkin blooms, that lean Their crumpled rims beneath the heavy heat, The stripèd bees in lazy labour glean From bell to bell with golden-feathered feet; Yet even here the voices of hard life go by; Outside, the city strains with its eternal cry.

down Occurrences 1%

About ten miles west we turn off the rim down a ridge.

Which preposition to use with  rims