Which preposition to use with stool

in Occurrences 50%

Her mug was standing upon a stool in the middle of the floor; and there was not any other thing in the place in the shape of furniture or household utensil.

at Occurrences 34%

He had thrown himself upon a stool at the man's feet, and sat looking up into the kindly face.

of Occurrences 28%

Fir-trees are there with their cones, and hazel-bushes with their nuts; there stand the stools of oak and yew trees, beeches and alders.

by Occurrences 23%

Miss Laura filled the little white dishes with water and put them in the cages, and then came and sat on a stool by the door.

for Occurrences 17%

Linnet laughed, gave him one of her pails, and found an other milking stool for him.

before Occurrences 15%

Having closed the door and shut those friendly countenances out from view, Hugh Price raised his slippered feet and placed them on the stool before him, and smoked in silence.

on Occurrences 15%

They left the old man, propped up by the high stool on which his feet rested, seated far back in the great chair, hard by Captain Duggle's grave, where the scepter lay on a carpet of gold.

beside Occurrences 13%

Every strap and buckle was depicted with rare fidelity; there was no doubt at all of the sponge and bottle on the stool beside him, or the cloth in his hand.

with Occurrences 13%

Tom was his sole companion, sharing his bed, and sitting beside him on a stool with much the same drowsy expression of eye as his master.

to Occurrences 11%

"Are yoh hungry?" He nodded, got up briskly, held up his train, and dragged his high stool to the table, scrambled up, and established himself.

near Occurrences 10%

" Sam Cotting, being himself of great local importance, had never regarded with favor the rivalry of the nabob, but he placed stools near the telephone booth for the three girls, who accepted the courtesy with a graciousness that ought to have disarmed the surly storekeeper.

from Occurrences 5%

"Then we all took our seats, the detective getting a washing stool from the corner of the cellar.

behind Occurrences 4%

She sat all day longfrom noon, that is, till late at nighton a high stool behind the tall, pulpit-like desk of the caisse; flanked on one hand by the swing door of green baize which communicated with the kitchen, on the other by a hideous black walnut buffet on which fruits of the season were displayed, more or less temptingly, to the taste of Mama Thérèse.

between Occurrences 4%

" Readily assenting to the proposition, Blaize obtained the key of the cellar from the butler, and adjourning thither with Pillichody, they seated themselves on a cask with a bottle of sack and a couple of large glasses on a stool between them.

under Occurrences 4%

what have I said?" Madame had laid down her tapestry, and was staring in intense indignation at the poet, who writhed on his stool under the stern rebuke of those cold gray eyes.

outside Occurrences 3%

Polly was in good spirits that day, for little John was so much better that he was able to sit on the floor and play, and, as I stood looking out of my small casement window, I watched her washing up in a tub standing on a wooden stool outside her door, and I heard her singing to herself as she did so.

into Occurrences 3%

They had moved a ponderous stool into the room so that Bull might have something on which to sit, but long habit had made him uneasy in a chair, and he kept to the floor by preference, with the great square chin resting on his fist and his knee supporting his elbow.

like Occurrences 2%

The moment he had gone out of the house, though, she was up on a stool like lightning, and in a moment she had fished the looking-glass out of the vase.

around Occurrences 2%

The Seventeen Little Bears said in a sing-song way, "We really are not quite polite, We're selfish as can be, We sit on stools around the fire, Just singing merrily!" CHAPTER VII When Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes rode home with Grandpa Grumbles in his green cotton umbrella they sang a merry song, "Oh, ho!

without Occurrences 1%

It may be well to place on record Mr. Foote's punishment for blasphemy: he spent twenty-two hours out of the twenty-four alone in his cell; his only seat was a stool without a back; his employment was picking matting; his bed was a plank with a thin mattress.

after Occurrences 1%

" He, Morange, was the son of a petty commercial clerk who had died on his stool after forty years of cloistral office-life.

amid Occurrences 1%

Timon in the wilderness, Diogenes in his tub, could not have been mentally more isolated from annoying human consociation than was at the moment Mr. Heatherbloom, perched on a rickety stool amid a conglomeration of females struggling for lingerie.

among Occurrences 1%

Seated on benches or small wooden stools among valises, boxes, and baskets, a few feet from the engines, in the heat of the boilers, amid the human smells and the pestilential odor of oil, were to be seen the great majority of the passengers.

beneath Occurrences 1%

Once the newcomer shifted his position a little, and Sinclair saw him test the weight of the stool beneath him with his hand.

inside Occurrences 1%

For charging the retort, the water-tank is placed on a trolly; and standing upright on a stool inside the tank is placed the piña, or conical mass of silver amalgam, which is held together by being built up on a core-bar fitted with a series of horizontal disks.

Which preposition to use with  stool