Which preposition to use with stringed

of Occurrences 963%

The big doors were open, and at the far end I saw the Queen standing, a stately figure (enormous), dressed in a long black velvet dress, a high diamond tiara on her head, from which hung a black lace veil, a fan in her hand (I suppose no Spanish woman of any station ever parts with her fan) and a splendid string of pearls.

to Occurrences 98%

Lady Mary said; and the pang in her heart was so great that the very atmosphere was stirred, and the air could scarcely contain her and the passion of her endeavor to make herself known, but thrilled like a harp-string to her cry.

with Occurrences 58%

In others straight lines of the ordinary stalactite forms are combined with reference to size and tone in a regularly graduated system like the strings of a harp with musical tones corresponding thereto; and on these stone harps we played by striking the crystal strings with a stick.

on Occurrences 57%

A bunch of keys fell out firstseven of them, strung on a purple ribbonand then a flat, impressive looking letter was discovered.

in Occurrences 48%

We got as beautiful a string in this way as one would wish to see, albeit they laughed at our best skill with fly and bait; and the cream of the matter was, that we had our pick of the shoal.

from Occurrences 47%

Your earliest practice, it may be, was in rigging the parlor hangings as a curtain with brown string from the pantry and safety pins.

for Occurrences 20%

"That's all you get," Maudie burst out indignantly"all you get for packin' his stuff down to the landin', to have it all ready for him, and worryin' yourself into shoe-strings for fear he'd miss the boat.

along Occurrences 19%

Then he began to weave a network of rope and string along each side of the bough, so that the child could not fall off; but finding this rather a long job, and thinking it a pity to balk her of so much pleasure merely for the sake of surprising her the more thoroughly, he resolved to reveal what he had already done, and permit her to enjoy it.

at Occurrences 18%

He would then" "I tell you what," said Mike, "How about tying a string at the top of the steps?" "Yes, Napoleon would have done that, too.

around Occurrences 16%

Redbud wrapped the string around her hand, and Ralph let it go.

about Occurrences 14%

[They put a Bow-string about his neck.

through Occurrences 14%

" She took no notice of his speech but stood for a moment untying the strings of the package, frowning to herself, then bit the string through and, clutching the little package in her fist, took a gilded tool from beside the snow-bowl and pierced the seal of the amphora.

by Occurrences 13%

PART II MADAME GILBERT CHAPTER IX THE WOMAN AND THE MAN If one believed Dawson's own accounts of his exploitsI can conceive no greater exercise in follyone would conclude that he never failed, that he always held the strings by which his puppets were constrained to dance, and that he could pluck them from their games and shut them within his black box whenever he grew wearied of their fruitless sport.

like Occurrences 12%

[Footnote 56: A virginal, says Mr. Malone, was strung like a spinnet, and shaped like a pianoforte: the mode of playing on this instrument was therefore similar to that of the organ.]

across Occurrences 12%

Pass a string across the back of the bird, catch it over the points of the skewer, tie it in the centre of the back, and be particular that the turkey is very firmly trussed.

over Occurrences 11%

As Father Wills proceeded to enforce his order, and pulled the leather string over the child's head, Kaviak rent the air with shrieks and coughs.

under Occurrences 7%

" "And so am I," replied Mab, as she tied her cap strings under her chin, so it would not blow awayI mean so the cap would not blow away, not Mab's chin; for that was made fast to her face, you see, and couldn't blow off, no matter how much wind whistled down the chimney.

round Occurrences 7%

Pat a string round the body from skewer to skewer, and tie it above the back.

into Occurrences 6%

The seed is used by mountebank tooth-drawers, which run about the country, to cause worms to come forth of the teeth, by burning it in a chafing-dish of coles, the party holding his mouth over the fume thereof; but some crafty companions, to gain money, convey small lute-strings into the water, persuading the patient that those small creepers came out of his mouth or other parts which he intended to cure."

as Occurrences 5%

Children cling to the leading strings as to a necessity, and feel it a benefit to be led.

without Occurrences 4%

In short, such scenes were insupportable; and what with the accidents that arose, and the tops without strings, and the strings without tops, the hoops without sticks, and the sticks without hoops, the seizure of the favourite toy by one, and the inability of another to get any thing, it was evident that we were wrong, but not so clear how we could do otherwise.

before Occurrences 4%

Chickens and game were roasted by hanging them with leather strings before the open fire.

between Occurrences 3%

Then he took it over to where an impromptu slack wire was strung between two posts, and set the monkey on this.

than Occurrences 3%

But taken together with a letter from her to Sir Hans Sloane, recommending certain volumes of poems that no gentleman's library ought to be without, the bookselling enterprise shows that the novelist had more strings than one to her bow.

out Occurrences 3%

Yet he uses mostly the common measures, attaining with these a free swing, a fitting of sound to sense, that are irresistible to the many "Common tunes that make you choke and blow your nose, Vulgar tunes that bring the laugh that brings the groan I can rip your very heart-strings out with those.

Which preposition to use with  stringed