Which preposition to use with strapping

of Occurrences 71%

Donkeys, dogs, rats, everything indeed in the way of flesh, had been consumed; even boot leather, the straps of native bedsteads, and mimosa gum did not come amiss to the sorely-tried garrison.

on Occurrences 42%

His two blankets were strapped on the sled, Indian fashion, along with a gunny sack and his rifle.

in Occurrences 20%

Now Tam, O Tam! had thae been queans, A' plump and strapping in their teens!

from Occurrences 15%

Churns are of all sorts and sizes, from that which churns 70 or 80 gallons by means of a strap from the engine, to the square box in which a pound of butter is made.

over Occurrences 14%

It was in the old days when one still wore a strap over the instep, which naturally was drawn very tight.

to Occurrences 13%

The corking-boot is buckled by a strap to the knee, the bottle placed in it, and the cork, after being squeezed in the press, driven in by a flat wooden mallet.

across Occurrences 13%

They carried me to where their horses were tied up in a glade, and presently we were galloping towards the hills, myself an inert bundle strapped across an Indian saddle.

about Occurrences 11%

Joshua wound a strap about her waist and stooped to buckle it, when, with her freed hand, she seized his hair, causing him to yell with pain.

at Occurrences 11%

Behind the children, a row of squaws against the wall, with and without babies strapped at their backs.

with Occurrences 11%

The straps with rich enamel decked I bid you lay aside; And bind the rowels to my heel With thongs of dusky hide.

for Occurrences 7%

And with these branches to be for cross-pieces, and our belts and the straps for binders, I set the trees together into a raft, and made it pretty good for our need, and so that no monstrous thing in the river should have chance to snap upward between the trees at my dear One.

around Occurrences 6%

He wound the strap around his wrist and strove to ensconce himself deeper in a place not large enough for him.

under Occurrences 6%

" He threw the strap under the raspberry bushes, then looked at me and said, "Fetch it."

round Occurrences 6%

His dress was of the antique Dutch fashion: a cloth jerkin strapped round the waist, several pairs of breeches, the outer one of ample volume, decorated with rows of buttons down the sides, and bunches at the knees.

into Occurrences 5%

She buttoned her glove, took her shawl strap into her lap, loosening the strap so that she might slip her "English Literature" in, tightened it again, ate the last cream drop, tossed aside the paper, and was ready for Middlefield.

behind Occurrences 5%

This entirely falsifies the sculptor's motive, misses the meaning of the sling, renders the broad strap behind the back superfluous, and changes into mere plastic symbolism what Michelangelo intended to be a moment caught from palpitating life.

through Occurrences 3%

Each pair stands on the folded side, rolls the blanket roll closely and buckles the straps, passing the end of the strap through both keeper and buckle, back over the buckle and under the keeper.

out Occurrences 2%

When things had reached such a pass as this Molly would generally interfere to protect her foster-son, and then she and Tom would together fight the old man until they had wrenched the stick or the strap out of his hand.

between Occurrences 2%

And, indeed, upon the second day, I had Mine Own to creep more nigh with me, and I then to have but one strap between us, and the other I set a stone into, and did cast the stone alway before us, as upon the outward way.

above Occurrences 2%

And the other grenadiers, with the red shoulder-knots and the fur hats strapped above their knapsacks, are the Imperial Guard, the successors of the old Consular Guard who won Marengo for us.

before Occurrences 2%

A Birthday Cake was there, with lighted candles; a little pile of neatly darned socks and stockings, a white-cotton Easter Rabbit with pink pasteboard ears, a Jolly Santa Claus, a smoking hot Dinner, a Nice Nurse who rocked a smiling baby, a brown-faced grinning Organ-Man, his organ strapped before him, his Monkey on his shoulder.

beneath Occurrences 1%

Glancing in the direction she indicated, Bellew observed a tall figure, very straight and upright, clad in a tight-fitting blue coat, with extremely tight trousers strapped beneath the insteps, and with a hat balanced upon his close-cropped, grizzled head at a perfectly impossible angle for any save an ex-cavalry-man.

of Occurrences 1%

All stood by the open hall door, criticising Murphy's strapping of my trunks on a hack.

without Occurrences 1%

" I gave him my strap without being able to answer.

in Occurrences 1%

So, instead of being the best, I was the worst child in school, for not one had ever before received two strappings in a forenoon.

Which preposition to use with  strapping