Which preposition to use with slabbing

of Occurrences 167%

Nevertheless the Colonel put on more wood, explaining to Salmon P. and the others, who also moved back, that it was for illuminating purposesthose two candles burning down low, each between three nails in a little slab of woodthose two had been kept for Christmas, and were the last they had.

with Occurrences 18%

In the chancel is a curious slab with an inscription in Lombardic characters, perhaps a memorial of a former rector.

in Occurrences 18%

Donovan, who had always been of great help on the slab in hot weather, was not equal to the task of another year and was made manager of the Providence team.

over Occurrences 9%

Before me was a palatial building with the words "Medical Board" carved on a marble slab over the main entrance.

for Occurrences 8%

Some of their trunks are shaped like buttresses, similar to those before spoken of at Manila, from which they obtain broad slabs for the tops of tables.

at Occurrences 7%

The captain-major made a hole with pickaxes in a stone slab at the entrance of this river, and set up a marble pillar, of which he had brought many for that purpose, which had two escutcheons, one of the arms of Portugal, and another, on the other side, of the sphere, and letters engraved in the stone which said, "Of the Lordship of Portugal, Kingdom of Christians."

from Occurrences 7%

Then these three, that had robbed the Law of its due and proper victim, still sinned on for what was still their friend, and levered out the marble slabs from the sacred sepulchre of Paul, Archbishop of Alois and Vayence.

before Occurrences 4%

George, after looking at the cup, raised it, opened his hand and let it fall on the marble slab before him.

to Occurrences 4%

Tools for grinding and polishing lenses of various curvatures were exhibited, together with a collection of glass disks obtained from the factory of Messrs. Ross & Co., and in various stages of manufacturefrom the first rough slab to the surface of highest polish.

on Occurrences 4%

Two small upright tombstones, immediately adjoining the chapel, and a few flat slabs on the ground below, are the only sepulchural indications remaining here.

between Occurrences 3%

" "Of that you shall be the judge, since, at dawn to-morrow, your head will lie on the marble slab between the columns of the Piazzetta.

outside Occurrences 3%

The piazza is named after him; he is celebrated on a marble slab outside the museum, where all the famous names of the vicinity may be read too; and in the church is one of his most charming groups and finest heads.

above Occurrences 3%

The part on which the vane stood, was erected in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and the other part was built in the time of Charles II., whose name, with the date, was on a marble slab above the doorway.

within Occurrences 1%

The Gazetteer speaks of it as a man's tomb; but the flat burial-slab within the arches points to it being a woman's grave; and local tradition declares that it is the body of the mother of one Daulat Khan which lies here.

below Occurrences 1%

In West's system, however, where the slabs are keyed course to course, any kind of transverse tie to be used during the process of construction, except that used in the starting course, is entirely dispensed with, and the courses of slabs above depend solely upon the courses of slabs below them for their stability and rigidity up to the time that the plastic filling-in has been deposited and become hard between both faces of the wall.

by Occurrences 1%

And seizing the stone slab by the handle, he lifted it as if it had been a pot-lid, and let it down into its place.

during Occurrences 1%

A thin facing of marble or other ornamental solid or even plastic material may be applied to the face of the slabs during the process of casting, thus enabling the work to be finished as it is carried up, or a key may be formed on the face of the slab to enable the structure to be plastered afterward.

like Occurrences 1%

3 and 4, without any arms, but with slabs like arms fixed on its underside; and this latter is claimed to be the most effective.

opposite Occurrences 1%

At one of the microscopes on the slab opposite him stands a sturdy bearded man, his back toward the Major; while the wise little German, hopeless of customers, is leaning over him in his shirt sleeves.

about Occurrences 1%

There is no doubt that the glacier is retreating with comparative rapidity, and this leads us to account for the various ice slabs about the hut as remains of the glacier, but a puzzling fact confronts this proposition in the discovery of penguin feathers in the lower strata of ice in both ice caves.

Which preposition to use with  slabbing