Which preposition to use with straw

in Occurrences 107%

When a group of returned stampeders came in, she sat down at a rough little faro-table, leaned her elbows on it, sipped the rest of the stuff in her tumbler through a straw, and in the shelter of her arms set the straw in a knot-hole near the table-leg, and spirited the bad liquor down under the board.

for Occurrences 52%

In the precipitation of lemon-slices into cut crystal, it is necessary for the liquid medium to be exhausted gradually; and, after using this cylinder of straw for the purpose about an hour ago, I must have placed it behind my ear in a moment of absent-mindedness.

of Occurrences 32%

Else he is dealing with some man of straw of his own fancy, and will be found, as so often happens, assuming the truth of realism in every argument he brings forward.

on Occurrences 28%

Here we are retrograding to the dull, stupid old system, balance of Europepoising straws on kings' noses, instead of wringing them off."

about Occurrences 25%

"The woman obviously cared not a straw about anything but handling his moneyand couldn't even hide it!

to Occurrences 23%

This alliance between my rivals and the Free Companions was the last straw to my burden.

with Occurrences 18%

But when the car stopped on the siding, pa took off his coat and hat and yawned, and said he guessed he would turn in, and she let him go to his berth, and he got out on the platform, and just then the second section of our train came along, and stopped for water, and pa crawled into an animal car and laid down in the straw with the sacred cow.

at Occurrences 11%

He was foreclosing mortgages, buying half-starved horses and steers for a song, selling hay and straw at fabulous prices.

from Occurrences 11%

You introduce your protégéalways crawling on his stomachto the cook; swear to the dog's immaculate conduct; beg a trifle of straw from the transport, and in short see him comfortably settled for the night.

into Occurrences 9%

Polythene or polypropylene bags are now required to fill the straw into.

like Occurrences 7%

"You will not doubt I am talking of a puppet-show; and indeed so I am; but the figures (some of them) bigger than the life, and not stuffed with straw like those commonly shown at fairs.

under Occurrences 7%

He should wash, pick, and wipe dry the legs and feet, take off the bridle and crupper, and fasten it to the rack, then the girths, and put a wisp of straw under the saddle.

as Occurrences 7%

This is reasonable, and would to some extent prevent the putting up, as is now done, men or women of straw as editors, who have no means of paying fines.

by Occurrences 4%

Anna would have been contented and thankful for a bed of straw by the kitchen fire; but even this they could not give, as the lower apartments were wanted by those who had been obliged to give up their beds.

out Occurrences 4%

And for all he was so grave, there was a smile on his face too, and he showed me how to twist a wisp of straw out of the bed to bind above my ankles at the bottom of the leggings.

over Occurrences 4%

It was raised a little from the ground, and it had a thick layer of straw over the floor.

between Occurrences 3%

To judge the moisture content one should hold some straw between one's fingers and squeeze tightly.

through Occurrences 3%

don’t you remember Black Alice, Sam Holt Black Alice, so dusky and dark, The Warrego gin, with the straw through her nose, And teeth like a Moreton Bay shark.

against Occurrences 3%

They may make you tremble and shrink with fancied terrors, but they shall never be able to man so much as a straw against you.

before Occurrences 2%

Captaine, we must give place; these girles are firebrands, And we as straw before them.

beside Occurrences 2%

I curled up in the straw beside him, and soon we were fast asleep.

without Occurrences 1%

If the hay was thrown so high in the rack that they could not pluck a single straw without stretching up for it, why, the hay was generally worth stretching for, and was, perhaps, quite as healthful as the sweet and easily digested nursery porridge which some people adopt as exclusive diet for their darlings nowadays.

across Occurrences 1%

He had, when a boy, stopped a wizard in his way to Stoke, by laying a line of single straws across the path; and, concealed in a hedge, he had watched an old woman (alias witch) feeding her imps in the form of three blackbirds.

after Occurrences 1%

'Certainly,' said the barrister; 'but such evidence would not be worth a straw after a Queen's pardon, given on the advice of the judge who had tried the former case.

around Occurrences 1%

The nearest soldier sat on a flattened pile of straw around which the ground was muddy.

Which preposition to use with  straw