Which preposition to use with squeezing

in Occurrences 42%

Take a pound of loaf sugar, beat and sift it very fine, grate the rind of a lemon and put into your sugar; take the whites of three eggs and wisk them to a froth, squeeze in some lemon to your taste, beat them for half an hour, and drop them on white paper; be sure you let the paper be very dry, and sift a little fine sugar on the paper before you drop them.

of Occurrences 35%

"Listen, Mr. Naylor," she added with a squeeze of the old man's arm.

into Occurrences 31%

"We came up in it, but I don't know how we're all going to squeeze into it going back.

out Occurrences 25%

We heard of all the witches, warlocks, incubi, succibi, harpies, devils, imps, and haunters of Avitchi, from all the teachings of history, sacred and profane, Hindu, Egyptian, Greek, mediaeval, Swedenborg, Rosicrucian, theosophy, theology, with every last ounce of horror, mystery, shivers, and creeps squeezed out of them.

through Occurrences 20%

The nursing-bottle should be thoroughly washed and cleaned every day, and always rinsed out before and after using it, the warm water being squeezed through the nipple, to wash out any particles of food that might lodge in the aperture, and become sour.

FROM Occurrences 14%

" THE PIPPINS OF THE JOHN REAL DEMOCRACY, (MESSRS. MORRISSEY, O'BRIEN, AND FOX,) GETTING THEIR LAST SQUEEZE FROM GOVERNOR HOFFMAN.

between Occurrences 10%

My gun was squeezed between him and me.

to Occurrences 9%

"Help, help!" cried Snubby Nose, "we shall be squeezed to death!" Tippy Toes sat very still.

on Occurrences 7%

" Sarah, contrary to her wont, received this attack in silence; but she bestowed a fond squeeze on her father's arm, and cast an appealing glance at Peter, which caused the hero's heart to leap in his bosom.

of Occurrences 4%

When piercing colds had burst the brittle stone, And freezing rivers stiffened as they run, He then would prune the tenderest of his trees, Chide the late spring, and lingering western breeze: His bees first swarmed, and made his vessels foam With the rich squeezing of the juicy comb.

by Occurrences 4%

" I offered Joyce the bunch, which she took with a smile, giving my hand a little squeeze by way of gratitude.

with Occurrences 4%

"You've taught me how to swing the muzzle up, and not too far up, and how to lean back instead of forward, and how to harden the arm muscles just as I pull the trigger, and how to squeeze with the whole hand and keep my wrist stiff, and how" "None of them things counts," said Pete gravely, almost sadly, "compared to what I'm going to tell you.

at Occurrences 3%

The entrances are narrow, and there is often a good deal of pushing and patient squeezing at the neck of them.

over Occurrences 3%

Cut lemon should be put on the table with this fish; and a little of the juice squeezed over it is considered by many persons a most agreeable addition.

past Occurrences 3%

" Squeezing past Rudolph in his niche, there struggled a convulsive bulk, like some monstrous worm, too large for the bore, yet writhing.

under Occurrences 3%

Number Two could not answer, for his windpipe was mortally squeezed under the iron grip of his adversary; therefore, as the only reply he could make, he commenced the manual exercise right and left, and with such effect, that Sandford loosened his hold and staggered back.

for Occurrences 2%

To what purpose doth the Pia Mater lie in so dully in her white formalities; sure she hath had hard labour, for the brows have squeezed for it, as you may perceive by his buttered bon-grace that film of a demicastor; 'tis so thin and unctuous that the sunbeams mistake it for a vapour, and are like to cap him; so it is right heliotrope, it creaks in the shine and flaps in the shade; whatever it be I wish it were able to call in his ears.

like Occurrences 2%

" The eye of Captain Truck glistened, and, as he return ed the shake by another of twice the energy, and the gentle pressure of Mr. Effingham by a squeeze like that of a vice, he said in his honest off-hand manner

along Occurrences 2%

Or if the stones are marked for hop-scotch, I squeeze along the wall.

as Occurrences 1%

The simple girl, interpreting that squeeze as an expression of love, said: 'Oh, my Edoardo, you will ever love me?' 'Ever, ever,' replied Edoardo, wiping away a tear.

behind Occurrences 1%

Four young people squeezed behind a tree, and a Wise Man down on his hands and knees behind a stumpall watching two forlorn birds, who did not understand that liberty was theirs for the taking.

among Occurrences 1%

I squeeze among the crowd, and I look about me.

down Occurrences 1%

The ring is fitted to the piston only on the under edge; the top edge is rounded to a point from the inside, and the junk ring does not bear upon it, but the junk ring squeezes down the hemp packing between the packing ring and the body of the piston.

beneath Occurrences 1%

Feeling his way into the circle with a stick, there came a poor blind man, of diminutive stature, squeezing beneath his left arm a suffocating accordion, which, every now and then, as he stumbled against the uneven planks of the wharf, gave a querulous squeak, doleful in its cadence as the feeble quavers evoked by Mr. William Davidge, comedian, from the asthmatic clarionet of Jem Bags, in the farce of the "Wandering Minstrel.

about Occurrences 1%

The inmates of the former took it as a joke and drove off chuckling; but those in the second took the matter-of-fact view and began squeezing about, till, having a space of about four inches by three, one man said he thought they could manage; however, not wishing to "sit familiar," we thanked him, but declined to trouble him any further.

Which preposition to use with  squeezing