Which preposition to use with slenderer

in Occurrences 15%

Then she frowned, and 'neath her sombre draperies her foot fell a-tapping; a small foot, dainty and slender in its gaily broidered shoe, so much at variance with her dolorous habit.

as Occurrences 15%

Happy he sleeps, fearless with kneeling camels; They pierce him with a lance, Sharp and slender as a thorn, And leave him to groan until His soul leaves his body: The eagle waits to devour his entrails.

of Occurrences 9%

This gentleman was slender of limb, and tall; his lower extremities were clad in a tight pair of short breeches, beneath which, scarlet stockings plunged themselves into enormous shoes, decorated with huge rosettes; his coat was half-military, half-fop; and a long sword buckled round his waist, knocked against his fantastic grasshopper legs.

than Occurrences 8%

The front toes are still three, but the outer ones are more slender than in Anchitherium, and their hoofs smaller in proportion to that of the middle toe; they are, in fact, reduced to mere dew-claws, and do not touch the ground.

for Occurrences 5%

These little wrists, now You said, one blessed night, they were too slender, Too soft and slender for a deacon's wife Perhaps a martyr's:You forgot the strength Which God can give.

than Occurrences 3%

This is easily explained by the fact that while in the full grown worm the abdominal legs, or pro legs, are nearly equal in length, in the newly hatched worm the second pair are slightly shorter than the third, and the first pair are shorter and slenderer than the seconda state of things approaching that in the full grown cotton worm, though the difference in size in the former case is not nearly so marked as in the latter.

to Occurrences 3%

This letter has three long sounds, heard in move, note, nor; which graduate from slender to broadish, and broad

at Occurrences 2%

An irregular cloud, slender at the base, spreading on top, towered to mid zenith above the forest.

like Occurrences 1%

So in a nursery it is the custom to cut it back at first so that the vine may grow with a stronger stem and may have greater strength to produce fruitful tendrils: for a stem which grows slender like a rush is sterile through weakness and cannot throw out tendrils.

against Occurrences 1%

Out of the masses, clear and slender against the evening sky, rose a multitude of tall chimneys, many of them reeking, a few smokeless during a season of "play."

above Occurrences 1%

In repose the lines of her mouth turned up, and her throat, where so often the years eat in first, was smooth and even slender above the rather round swell of bosom.

with Occurrences 1%

Pellaèa grácilis Fronds (including stipes) three to six inches long, thin and slender with few pinnæ.

from Occurrences 1%

Some came down straight and slender from branches a hundred feet above.

Which preposition to use with  slenderer