Which preposition to use with squeaking
" Mr. Batch wiped his forearm across his brow, his voice jerking between the squeak of nails extracted from wood.
With a groaning and squeaking of rusty hinges, the heavy door swung inward, and the girls found themselves staring into a black well of hallway that seemed to have no windows anywhere.
Thrice happy age when one can hug one's white woolly lamb to one's bibbed breast, kiss its pink bead eyes in irrational ecstasy, and manipulate the squeak in its foreground without desire to explore the cause thereof!
"Yes, you gather my meanings" I heard a sharp squeak like a terrified mouse.
A NARROW SQUEAK WITH THE O. C. X. THE GRIDIRON START.
They know that the rats hardly squeaked under Innocent, and that they swarm under Alexander.
One knife went right through him, and grated with a harsh squeak on the cobble-stones beneath.
Bubble-and-squeak from remains of cold beef; curried pork.
Was I to be squeaked out of all my wisdom, and knowledge, and device, after this fashion?
A wooden door rose squeaking in its grooves but Commodus kept his back toward it.
" The coroner made a long squeak as an indication of mirth.
"You've had a narrow squeak for it, old chappie!"
We creaked and squeaked about up the moss-grown track, and groaned our way back into the station time after time, in order to tie on something else behind the train, or to get on to a siding to let a trainload of trench floorboards and plum and apple jangle past up the line.
It sounded like several pairs of new boots all squeaking at once, but Mr. Vickers, who was a reasonable man and past the age of self-deception, sought for a more probable cause.
Her gunwales rubbed and squeaked along the straining piles green with sea slime; deck chains clinked, cog-wheels clattered, the stifling smell of dock water gave place to the fresher odour of the streets.
ThirdlySlice the meat, and souse that and the cabbage both in a frying pan together, and let them bubble and squeak over a charcoal fire for half an hour, three minutes, and two seconds.
I have heard such squeaking from that corner during the past week that I told sister there must be a mouse nest in that bed."
Fantastic as they are, they have played a large part in reducing the Hague Tribunal to an ineffective squeak amidst the thunders of this war.