Which preposition to use with slings

over Occurrences 55%

After a time he came back, bearing with him a great brown loaf of bread, and a fair, round cheese, and a goatskin full of stout March beer, slung over his shoulders.

across Occurrences 32%

He sought in the pockets of the coat he carried slung across his shoulder and brought out a packet of food.

on Occurrences 22%

The pack was slung on the Boy's back, and he was throwing the diamond hitch to fasten it when the Colonel at last looked round.

from Occurrences 14%

Then by metal hoops the leg was slung from home-made cradles, and I defy the most modern hospital to show me anything more comfortable or efficient.

at Occurrences 14%

The archers came forth and touched land the first, each with his bow strung, and with his quiver full of arrows slung at his side.

in Occurrences 13%

That place is encompassed by the sea on all sides, except the west, where is an entrance about the cast of a sling in width; which sort of place by the Latins is called a peninsula, by the Greeks a chersonesus.

for Occurrences 9%

PRONE POSITION AND USE OF THE GUN SLING: To adjust the sling for firing, unhook the straight strap of the sling and let it out as far as it will go.

of Occurrences 9%

With his arm in a sling of white linen, my father sat motionless, apparently passive and regardless of the flight of time.

behind Occurrences 8%

The troops saluted the hares which leaped out at their feet at every footstep as the broad array swept along, with shouts of laughter and yells, and during the halts numbers of the frightened creatures were knocked over and slung behind the knapsacks to furnish a meal at the night's bivouac.

to Occurrences 6%

The following day our route lay across country, out of the line of stage or rail; so a vehicle had to be got, which my young American cicerone, under the guidance of mine host, very soon arranged; and in due time, a long, slight, open cart, with the seats slung to the sides, drove to the door, with four neat greys, that might have made "Tommy Onslow's" mouth water.

around Occurrences 6%

Kurt was standing at the hawthorn hedge in front of the garden with his schoolbag still slung around him.

about Occurrences 4%

Now as Beltane walked beside the stream, head a-droop and very thoughtful, he paused of a sudden to behold one richly dight in gambeson of fair-wrought leather artificially quilted and pinked, who sat ensconced within this greeny bower, his back to a tree, one bandaged arm slung about his neck and in the other hand a long hazel-branch trimmed with infinite care, whereunto a line was tied.

by Occurrences 3%

Some ingenious sportsman could surely devise a system of slings by which the dead weight of the game could be more equally distributed.

Like Occurrences 2%

The pebble, humming from the sling Like a wild bee, flies a sure line For the forehead of the Philistine; Then ... but there comes a brazen clink, And quicker than a man can think Goliath's shield parries each cast.

with Occurrences 2%

" He threw open a door, and she gazed in upon a long-drawn avenue of iron pillars slung with double tiers of hammocks.

unto Occurrences 2%

And I did be carried then in a sling unto the Great Lift, and there did be a bed in the lift, and the Doctor to have me to lie upon the bed; and I to know that he also to know that I never to need a bed any more; neither should I ever to come upward again in the Lift.

as Occurrences 1%

When deployed, the use of the sling as an aid to accurate firing is discretionary with each man.

along Occurrences 1%

And in the afternoon I took my first ride on a teleferica, or aerial railway, slung along a steel rope across the deeps, seated on a sort of large wooden tea tray, some six feet long and two and a half across, with a metal rim some six inches high running round the edge.

round Occurrences 1%

This word was sufficient for Antar, and he promised to Ibla that Djaida should hold the bridle of her camel on her wedding day; and more than that, the head of Khaled should be slung round the neck of the warrior girl.

against Occurrences 1%

The nursing mothersand almost all the mothers were nursingsometimes carried the child slung against their side of hip, seated in a cloth belt, or sling, which went over the opposite shoulder of the mother.

under Occurrences 1%

Yes,slung under the thwarts,a pair of short sculls, worn and split, but with work in them still.

until Occurrences 1%

Your Grace may have seen him carrying it in a sling until within the last forty-eight hours.

into Occurrences 1%

Nine hundred of the strongest men were employed to draw up these cords, by many pulleys fastened on the poles; and thus, in less than three hours, I was raised and slung into the engine, and there tied fast.

between Occurrences 1%

He could not undergo the pain of riding, and a stretcher had to be slung between two horses to carry him on.

Which preposition to use with  slings