Which preposition to use with sleeve

of Occurrences 190%

About an hour's walk from the camp I met an Indian, who on perceiving me instantly strung his bow, placed on his left arm a sleeve of raccoon skin and stood on the defensive.

at Occurrences 21%

Men stood in shirt-sleeves at their cabin doors in the unwinking sunshine, looking up the valley or down, betting that the "first boat in" would be one of those nearest neighbours, May West or Muckluck, coming up from Woodworth; others as ready to back heavily their opinion that the first blast of the steam whistle would come down on the flood from Circle or from Dawson.

with Occurrences 20%

What you want to bet?" cried the interpreter, jerking himself half up and thrusting out one arm while he bared it of its coat-sleeve with the hand of the other.

in Occurrences 19%

She closed her streaming eyes, clutching at his sleeve in a state beyond her control.

on Occurrences 18%

Leaning his white sleeves on the rail, cigar in one fist, Tauchnitz volume in the other, he roared down over the side a passage of prose, from which his visitors caught only the words "Ginger Dick" and "Peter Russet," before mirth strangled him.

across Occurrences 15%

Dragging my sleeve across the fresh ink had made a upon the page.

for Occurrences 14%

Piggott says he's got a sensation up his sleeve for usit's got something to do with that cabinet.

to Occurrences 10%

Even as the creature's grip caught me, ripping through jacket sleeve to the flesh, I knew what my antagonist wasa giant African ape.

from Occurrences 7%

Then he turned, in obedience to a passionate tug at his coat sleeve from Mr. Kybird.

over Occurrences 5%

" "I knew it would come sooner or later," said Marcos, who winced as he drew his sleeve over his injured arm.

under Occurrences 3%

She herself was hurting him dreadfully keeping her secret about Alan and nobody knew what Ted had up his sleeve under his cloak of incredible virtue.

as Occurrences 3%

For a moment he hesitated in the cross-lights and confusion about him, failing to recognize in their new costumes his old acquaintances of the company; but he saw Kripps, the stage-manager, in the centre of the stage, perspiring and in his shirt-sleeves as always, wildly waving an arm to some one in the flies, and beckoning with the other to the gas-man in the front entrance.

without Occurrences 2%

These are such whose fathers had need leave them money, even to make them ready withal; for, by these hilts, they have not wit to button their sleeves without teaching: close, squat, close.

above Occurrences 2%

And now Robin, having reached the bank, began, without more ado, to roll up his sleeves above his wrists.

against Occurrences 2%

By the touch of Dorothy's sleeve against mine I knew that she could hear it too.

before Occurrences 2%

"I'm very sorry," said Hardy, as he reverently dusted the muff on his coat-sleeve before returning it.

between Occurrences 2%

As my face dropped level with the Pit edge, he licked me, right across the mouth; and then, seizing my sleeve between his teeth, began to pull back, strongly.

by Occurrences 2%

Part of the toe and foot is worn away and polished, not by the kisses, but by the wiping of the foot after the kisses by the next comer preparatory to kissing it; sometimes with the coat-sleeve by a beggar; with the corner of the cloak by the gentlemen; the shawl by the females; and with a nice cambric handkerchief by the attendant at the ceremony, who wiped the toe after each cardinal's performance.

during Occurrences 2%

Ol' Chief was pulling the Boy's sleeve during the little colloquy, and saying, "You tell."

inside Occurrences 2%

The supposition that any sane son of Adam would tuck up his sleeves inside out involves a suspicion, to say the least, that his wits had been overrated by doting relatives.

into Occurrences 2%

Come on!" was the reply, and in one moment the speaker's Khyber knife flashed from his loose sleeve into the throat of the nearest foe.

up Occurrences 2%

Mr M'Swat hitched his trousers well through the saddle-strap which he always wore as a belt, took off his coat and folded it on the back of a chair, rolled his shirt-sleeves up to his elbows, pulled his hat well over his eyes, and "shaped up" to the writing material, none of which met with his approval.

about Occurrences 2%

Mrs. Chaffery appeared in the half light of the passage as the top of a grimy cap over Ethel's shoulder and two black sleeves about her neck.

than Occurrences 1%

At a time when every woman and female child in the United States had more cloth in her sleeves than in all the rest of her dress, the rounded muscles of Mrs. Marshall's arm, showing through the fabric of her sleeves, smote shockingly upon the eye of the ordinary observer, trained to the American habit of sheep-like uniformity of appearance.

near Occurrences 1%

About the same period, Agnès de Baudement is represented with a sort of cap made of linen or stuff, with lappets hanging down over the shoulders; she is dressed in a robe fastened round the waist, and having long bands attached to the sleeves near the wrists.

Which preposition to use with  sleeve