Which preposition to use with skewers

through Occurrences 15%

Take a fresh kidney; clean and cut into thin slices; run a skewer through them to hold them together.

into Occurrences 5%

Beat the breast-bone flat with a rolling-pin, put a skewer through the under part of each wing, and having drawn up the legs closely, put a skewer into the middle of each, and pass the same quite through the body.

for Occurrences 2%

If I do not tan thy hide this day as ne'er I tanned a calf's hide in all my life before, split my staff into skewers for lamb's flesh and call me no more brave man!

at Occurrences 2%

Take a young rabbet, when it is cased cut off the wings and the head; leave the neck of your rabbet as long as you can; when you case it you must leave on the feet, pull off the skin, leave on the claws, so double your rabbet and skewer it like a fowl; put a skewer at the bottom through the legs and neck, and tie it with a string, it will prevent its flying open; when you dish it up make the same sauce as you would do for partridges.

to Occurrences 2%

He did not speak of Aurore again, not even when his eye rested on the paper doll skewered to the door by the deep-driven knife.

like Occurrences 2%

Hurry up, man; hurry, if you don't want to be skewered like a stuck pig!"

with Occurrences 1%

" William set down his plane, picked up an odd scrap of wood and cut out the skewers with his pocket-knife; while Naomi watched with a smile on her face.

in Occurrences 1%

Take from 12 to 16 lbs., after it has been in salt about 10 days; just wash off the salt, skewer it up in a nice round-looking form, and bind it with tape to keep the skewers in their places.

of Occurrences 1%

The darkness of the Cavern of Skulls had been relieved by the silver skewers of moonlight, but in the night that rolled around us there was not a single gleam of light.

on Occurrences 1%

I've got a camera here that I bought special, thinking it would be fun later to show round my album in the States an' point out this man being skewered on a bayonet an' that one being disrupted by a bomb an' the next lot charging a trench.

under Occurrences 1%

Ascertain that the kidneys are fresh, and cut them open very evenly, lengthwise, down to the root, for should one half be thicker than the other, one would be underdone whilst the other would be dried, but do not separate them; skin them, and pass a skewer under the white part of each half to keep them flat, and broil over a nice clear fire, placing the inside downwards; turn them when done enough on one side, and cook them on the other.

against Occurrences 1%

She converses as she fencesone bright flash, and you're skewered against the wallno parryings possible!"

Which preposition to use with  skewers