Which preposition to use with sockets

of Occurrences 30%

That evening he worked on the socket of the steel hook, and in two days he had the job finished.

in Occurrences 17%

At the end of this yoke is a round iron projection, made to fit into a socket in the upper rave of the boat.

with Occurrences 8%

The spring-latch of the American lock found its socket with a soft click.

for Occurrences 5%

The socket for the eye has a jutting ridge of bone all around it, to guard the organ of vision against injury.

into Occurrences 4%

This vertebra consists of a ring of bone, having two cup-like sockets into which fit two bony projections arising on either side of the great opening (foramen magnum) in the occipital bone.

at Occurrences 3%

Iron columns, painted red, and fixed into stone sockets at short distances apart, supported the joists of the ceiling; facing the street, a huge framework standing erect, and denoting the centre of the surrounding paling, supported the great cross-beam of the first story, that is to say, supported the whole house.

to Occurrences 3%

with wild sightless sockets to the sun, Thirsting for the light-streams that around it run; Far on yon summit, turning eastward, stand!

without Occurrences 3%

The doors stood open, and the windows, with the windowpanes all gone and in some instances the sashes as well, leered emptily, like eye-sockets without eyes.

from Occurrences 2%

This time his attack dashed the bolt and socket from their place.

on Occurrences 2%

Motion is communicated by gearing from the crank-shaft to the bevel wheel on the piece (d) on the end of the hub D, and is communicated to the spindle of the governor, which is screwed into the socket on D'.

like Occurrences 2%

John Aldous!" Donald MacDonald's voice came now like the deep growling roar of a she-bear, and as he cried the other's name he sprang to his feet, and his eyes gleamed in their deep sockets like raging fires. "Johnny!" Aldous rose, and he was smiling.

through Occurrences 1%

The bolts are worked slack in the holes, though accurately fitted at first; and it appears expedient, therefore, either to make the bolts very large, and the sockets through which they pass very deep, or to let one brass fit into the other.

by Occurrences 1%

The external diameter of the socket by which this cap is attached to the piston rod is 3-5/16 inches.

near Occurrences 1%

One of his eyes, either from natural deformity or the effect of hostile operation, was dragged down from its proper parallel, and planted in a remote socket near the corner of his mouth, whence it glared and winked with super-natural ferocity.

Which preposition to use with  sockets