Which preposition to use with sheared

in Occurrences 12%

He wore a short canvas apron and carried pruning-shears in one hand.

along Occurrences 8%

Example of shear along the grain 11.

of Occurrences 6%

AT'ROPOS, one of the Fates, whose office is to cut the thread of life with a pair of scissors. ... nor shines the knife, Nor shears of Atropos before their vision.

into Occurrences 4%

"In 1882, Professor Lodge, in a lecture before the Royal Institution on 'The Luminiferous Ether' defined it as: "'One continuous substance, filling all space, which can vibrate as light, which can be sheared into positive and negative electricity, which in whirls constitutes matter, and which transmits by continuity and not impact every action and reaction of which matter is capable.'

on Occurrences 3%

Two or three days after Maister Wiggie, the minister, had gone through the ceremony of tying us together, my sign was nailed up, painted in black letters on a blue ground, with a picture of a jacket on one side and a pair of shears on the other; and I hung up a wheen ready-made waistcoats, caps, and Kilmarnock cowls in the window.

across Occurrences 3%

Whenever forces act upon a body in such a way that one portion tends to slide upon another adjacent to it the action is called a ~shear~. In wood this shearing action may be (1) ~along the grain~, or (2) ~across the grain~. A tenon breaking out its mortise is a familiar example of shear along the grain, while the shoving off of the tenon itself would be shear across the grain.

off Occurrences 3%

Dazzling it fell; and the blade, as the vine-hook shears off the vine-bough, Carved through the strength of the brass, till her arms fell soft on his shoulder.

through Occurrences 2%

The blade sheared through helm and coif alike, so that King Arthur was wounded in his forehead, and the blood ran down his face.

with Occurrences 2%

His arms had come down, he dropped the big shears with insulated handles which he had drawn from his pocket, but he didn't speak a word to me and I did not speak to him.

at Occurrences 2%

The testy tailor imagining himself the victim of a hoax, throws his shears at his head, and Timothy, in revenge empties the bag of bull-frogs upon the clean floor of Buckram's shop.

for Occurrences 1%

At these they erected boiling-down works, shears for hoisting the huge whales' carcasses out of the water, stores, and jetties.

against Occurrences 1%

London city and the Parliament are crying out to apply the shears against sectaries and schismatics; the army is less drastic; shows, indeed, an undue tolerance to Presbyterian alarm.

as Occurrences 1%

Mingled with this contempt, notwithstanding, was a very active dread, neither of the Plinys, nor of their amiable consorts, in the least relishing the idea of being shorn of the wool, with shears as penetrating as the scalping-knife.

between Occurrences 1%

There went but a pair of shears between him and the pursuivant of hell, for they both delight in sin, grow richer by it, and are by justice appointed to punish it; only the devil is more cunning, for he picks a living out of others' gains.

during Occurrences 1%

It was drawn by a horse, once white, but whose milky hue was tarnished through age with large and numerous red spots, and whose mane and tail did not appear to have suffered by the shears during the present reign.

about Occurrences 1%

"Long wool sheep are usually sheared about the time of the barley harvest: in some places before the hay harvest.

from Occurrences 1%

When later he climbed back, a lock had been sheared from the side of his gray head.

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