Which preposition to use with sear

with Occurrences 11%

"Pooh, conscience! pooh, corazor!" Many of those wretched men have indeed lost their corazor, or it is seared with a red-hot iron.

of Occurrences 4%

[eBook #10027] Language: English Chatacter set encoding: US-ASCII ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE*** E-text prepared by Lionel G. Sear of Truro, Cornwall, England, and dedicated to the memory of R. F. Mudie, who won the book used as the source for this e-text as Form II First Prize for the Summer Term in 1901 at the Seafield House Preparatory School, Broughty Ferry, Scotland

on Occurrences 3%

If the meat is seared on both sides, the juices will be retained within, unless the broiling is too prolonged, when they will ooze out and evaporate, leaving the meat dry and leathery.

in Occurrences 2%

And if you thrust back his head you will find a terrible sear in his throat, and from his left side just back of the fore leg a chunk of flesh half as big as my hand has been torn away.

as Occurrences 2%

We got no sympathy from most northern men: their consciences were seared as with a hot iron.

behind Occurrences 1%

Her woman's intuition gave her added vision, and she glimpsed something of the fire that smoldered and seared behind his eyes.

into Occurrences 1%

It is seared into my brain as though with a white-hot iron.

out Occurrences 1%

Better to enchain the captive's soul, binding him with invisible bonds, and searing out of him the very wish to escape.

than Occurrences 1%

But this,a wanderer upon the face of the earth,a mark, deeper seared than the mark of Cain, upon the face which she had fondled and kissed within her arms; the soul to which she had given life, accursed of God and man,to measure this, there is no speech nor language.

through Occurrences 1%

She had suffered indignity and experienced an insulted resentment that seared through her like a hot iron.

like Occurrences 1%

The phrases purled with diabolical fluidity from her lips, searing like molten metal.

Which preposition to use with  sear