Which preposition to use with screw

of Occurrences 49%

Among the ashes on the hearth was a screw of paper, charred at one end, and thrown there after lighting someone's pipe.

in Occurrences 43%

And when I saw him in the box I said to myself, 'Well, I'm glad I've staked nothing on you, for it seems to me that you'll crack up if the police shake their thumb-screws in your face.'

into Occurrences 34%

Following her, a third passenger presented the well-nourished, indeed rotund, person of a Frenchman of thirty devoted to "le Sport"; as witness his aggressively English tweeds and the single glass screwed into his right eye-socket.

on Occurrences 24%

The wood, which was all cut to the same length, and channelled out to admit the free passage of the air, was then duly placed in the stove, and set on fire; but the heat not passing very readily through all the sinuosities of the pipe, he ordered his head cook to screw on his exhauster.

to Occurrences 20%

He seemed more wizened, paler, and intense as a violin string screwed to the snapping point; there was none of the lordly tolerance of Nick about him; he was like a bull terrier compared with a stag hound.

with Occurrences 17%

Some screws have three arms, some four and some six; but the screw with two arms is the most usual, and screws with more than three arms are not now much employed in this country.

for Occurrences 14%

Archimedes detected the mixture of silver in a crown of gold which his patron, Hiero of Syracuse, ordered to be made; and he invented a water-screw for pumping water out of the hold of a great ship which he had built.

from Occurrences 11%

" He took the lock, drew several screws from it, and then forced it open.

at Occurrences 10%

[Illustration: Shackles for the legs] I bought also a thumb-screw at this shop.

out Occurrences 5%

My family is wealthy, and I don't mind taking from them what little they give me willingly and all that I can screw out of them besides.

than Occurrences 3%

I put up my instrument, but scarcely had the screw-driver touched the new screw than out it flew from its socket, rolled along the floor of the 'walk,' dropped quietly through a crack into the gutter of the house-roof.

through Occurrences 3%

A.The space between the external and internal fire boxes forms a water space, which must be stayed every 4-1/2 or 5 inches by means of copper or iron stay bolts, screwed through the outer fire box into the metal of the inner fire box, and securely riveted within it: iron stay bolts are as durable as copper, and their superior tenacity gives them an advantage.

about Occurrences 2%

" Then all the archangels were perplexed, and began to screw about in their seats, trying to invent or think of some calamity that would bring the wicked human race to its senses and stir up its conscience.

like Occurrences 2%

Intended only for river navigation, propelled by a small screw like two fishtails set at right angles, working horizontally; the vessel had but two cabins, one on either side of the central part occupied by the machinery.

per Occurrences 2%

The speed of this vessel, in one of the experiments made with her, was 8.445 knots; the number of revolutions of the screw per minute, 231.32; and the pressure on each square foot of area of the screw's disc, 214 lbs.

under Occurrences 2%

"Mother, you're joking!" Her hands were out across the table now, almost reaching his, her face close and screwed under the lights.

by Occurrences 1%

If the efficiency of the first screw by represented by 1, that of the second screw will be represented by .823, or, in other words, if the first screw would give a speed of 10 knots, the second would give little more than 8.

before Occurrences 1%

"A very sensible and business-like question: but you needn't have been so delicate about asking it as to want a screw before beginning.

without Occurrences 1%

When the screw is put into revolution, the water is encountered by the leading edge of the screw without shock, as its advance is only equal to the advance of the vessel, and before the screw leaves the water it is projected directly astern.

As Occurrences 1%

The saddle was hung on the stockyard rail, And the poor old horse stood whisking his tail, For there never was seen such a regular screw As Wallabi Joe, of Bunnagaroo; Whilst the shearers all said, as they say, of course, That Wallabi Joe’s a fine lump of a horse; But the stockmen said, as they laughed aside, He’d barely do for a Sunday’s ride.

during Occurrences 1%

His turning the screw during those relatively impecunious years represents, I am pretty sure, the only act of resolution of his life.

Which preposition to use with  screw