Which preposition to use with rosaries

of Occurrences 17%

One of them, who was smeared with ashes from head to foot, the lobes of whose ears had been pierced and dragged down till they nearly touched his shoulders, and who wore an enormous rosary of Rudraksha berries, acted as the spokesman of the party and stated that they were on their way to Nasik.

in Occurrences 8%

There he passed the night sitting on a hamper, and in the morning some one remembers to have seen him there, his rosary in his hand.

at Occurrences 6%

"Faith, brother, you've kept your word and got the laugh out of us," cried a stout, sleek spirit, with a kindly face, and a row of little saints round his cap and a rosary at his side.

for Occurrences 2%

"Yes, my dear," her mother explained to me, "I got the rosary for her.

between Occurrences 2%

A doctor knelt on either side of herone of them the young man who had announced her coming into the hall this morning, with a rosary between his fingers.

from Occurrences 1%

once, from thy heart, than to say thy rosary from now until doom with thy mind upon a bumptious Russian.

over Occurrences 1%

Here I take this great basket, so; here I tie my rosary around the handle, thus; and here I slip the rosary over my head and sling the basket upon my back, in this wise."

to Occurrences 1%

There is an instance in which the Madonna and Child enthroned are distributing rosaries to the worshippers, and attended by St. Dominick and St. Peter Martyr, the two great saints of the Order.

along Occurrences 1%

He turned in his seat, and peered at the shimmer of the city's lights, strung like a luminous rosary along the river's edge.

with Occurrences 1%

It was not the long rosary with its large beads which often dangled at his side, that gave him the secret of heart-tortures and soul-aspirations!

around Occurrences 1%

Here I take this great basket, so; here I tie my rosary around the handle, thus; and here I slip the rosary over my head and sling the basket upon my back, in this wise."

as Occurrences 1%

As we bumped along the rough road our legs became dove-tailed together, I as well as he wrapped in the coarse folds of his monkish robe, the rosary as convenient to my hand as to his, and as the vehicle swayed our heads dodged each other as we rocked back and forth.

beside Occurrences 1%

One of the nuns dropped her rosary beside the statue, and, as she stooped to pick it up, she dexterously removed the letter and placed it in her bosom.

by Occurrences 1%

Wide hat of palm or bamboo, distinctively Filipino. sampaguita: The Arabian jasmine: a small, white, very fragrant flower, extensively cultivated, and worn in chaplets and rosaries by women and girlsthe typical Philippine flower.

Which preposition to use with  rosaries